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Make hobbyist PCBs with professional CAD tools by modifying "Design Rules"

Step 7Modifying the CLEARANCE rules

Modifying the CLEARANCE rules
In the CLEARANCE panel, we can control the desired clearance between several different sorts of objects. The default clearance is 8mils for everything...

At some point you need to decide what you want the values to be. This is just an example, so I get to pick. I like 0.8mm, which is very close to 1/32 inch. So we can set a bunch of the clearance values to 0.8mm:

The "same signal" clearances can stay at small numbers; we don't care a lot about that. The PAD to PAD clearance has to be a significantly smaller 0.5mm; more about that later...
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