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DRC and managing high current segments


 

Hi,

I'm having some trouble managing high current segments with DRC and need some advise.

When design rule is set up to associate a net with a high current track, then the whole of that net takes on a high current track status.

In practice, usually you would only need some segments of a track to be high current, while the remaining segments are low current. Typically for example a H-bridge driving a motor. The high current paths are from battery leads to H-bridge, but the other electronics hanging off the ground and positive rails are low current.

I can't seem to set individual segments in the design rule set up dialog box to be high current. (I can set tracks widths manually as a work around, but that is not the point - I want it to be set up as a design rule so that it checks for violations automatically without having to manually inspect every track and segment.)

Any suggestions?


 

on one of the jobs i had same problem. i just left the track as is and then added zone over segment that was high current.



From: mitchelj56
To: kicad-users@...
Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 9:00:00 AM
Subject: [kicad-users] DRC and managing high current segments

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Hi,

I'm having some trouble managing high current segments with DRC and need some advise.

When design rule is set up to associate a net with a high current track, then the whole of that net takes on a high current track status.

In practice, usually you would only need some segments of a track to be high current, while the remaining segments are low current. Typically for example a H-bridge driving a motor. The high current paths are from battery leads to H-bridge, but the other electronics hanging off the ground and positive rails are low current.

I can't seem to set individual segments in the design rule set up dialog box to be high current. (I can set tracks widths manually as a work around, but that is not the point - I want it to be set up as a design rule so that it checks for violations automatically without having to manually inspect every track and segment.)

Any suggestions?