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Routing the PCB, part 2

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Routing the PCB, part 2

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It's time to finish the connections, so let's go into Etch Edit mode, right click, choose Application Mode and we'll go with Etch Edit, and this is where you can make your connections. So now based on the constraints I set, my trace width is going to be 0.3810, it's 15 mils. The rest of my traces however for other connections So you have two tops, two bottoms. Alright so we'll stick with top and bottom and now we have a 45 degree angle connection and that looks much better. When you're making your connections you can also choose other convenient options like Auto Blank Other Rats, so seeing it in action here we can make a connection between that RAT or guideline and now with Auto Blank Other Rats active we only see the guidelines for the net we care about in the moment, so let's place that connection there, and you just connect the dots, well in this case the pad stacks but, you get the idea. Now we can potentially run into a problem if we just make connections without considering a…

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