Josh Koffman wrote:
> Well, after much work and some heartache, I have created my first
> board in Eagle. Now we'll see if I can transfer it to the
> Press-n-Peel and etch and drill properly. Anyway, Since this is my
> first time with Eagle, first time with Press-n-Peel, and my first
> time etching a board at all in quite a while, I decided to only make
> a single sided board. Pity though, since Eagle routed my board
> perfectly with two layers. So, Eagle couldn't figure out a way to
> produce a single sided board with all the nets routed. Not a problem,
> I spent many an hour manually rerouting stuff. My question is this:
> How do you deal with jumper wires? I dropped spare pads down and
> routed to the pad, skipped a section, then dropped another pad and
> routed from there. I am left with an airwire across where the jumper
> would be. However, is there a better way? I searched around in the
> Help and I couldn't seem to find anything. Does anyone have a better
> way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh

One way is just change the "cost" of the "non existent" layer's so high
that Eagle will try to do everything possible on the "cheap" side, leaving
less possible tracks on the  "non existent" layer.  You can also first
position manually (manual routing) the wires on the "non existent" layer,
so Eagle will be happy to route the rest on the cheap existent layer.

Just 2 questions:  How many holes do you have in this board? what is the
board size?  You will be amazed that just trying a different components
disposition on board can (sometimes) magically solves it with no jumpers at
all on a single sided board.  Sometimes hard work pays of, sometimes makes
you crazy.  :)

W46NER.

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