Turn your EAGLE schematic into a PCB

Step 12 Route remaining tracks manually

The autorouter did a pretty nice job here. There's only one trace left.

There are a couple of ways we could route this signal manually, including some snakey routes between transistor pins that the autorouter didn't use because of the design rules we specified. This is a relatively high current trace, and I decided that I won't manually violate the design rules either. Instead, I'll use a jumper wire on the component side, which I can model in EAGLE as a top-side trace.

Select the ROUTE tool and click on an endpoint of an unrouted (yellow) airwire, and you can position a trace pretty much anywhere you want, selecting width, layer, and type of bend from the menu bar as you go along. This is shown in the succession of pictures in this step.

Comments

[Leroy]

Step 12 clued me in on how to make a jumper for an unroutable trace! THANK YOU! I take it if I need to use a jumper on the component side of the board, I should just click the VIA button on board-layout to make a via, right?

[josheeg]

It mentions use the middle button again what does the middle button do?

[westfw]

When you're doing "route", the middle button changes the layer of the current segment of copper trace.

[hashir]

How can i convert yellow wires into blue wires?

[westfw]

Huh. that's described in the succession of pictures in this step, but I never did describe it in the text portion. I've added some additional text: any better?