Unfortunately, there isn't room to run another trace in. What I am going to do is look over some printouts that I made that are larger scale. Then I will be able to see if I can shuffle stuff around and end up with enough of a gap to put a pour in. I just wanted to know if it's worth the effort. Josh -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams Jesse Lackey wrote: > Why are you sorry to ask a good EE question? > What I did in a situation like this was to drop a via (I'm using eagle), > call is GND, and then route from a ground pin to the via. Then the fill > could get its way into areas that it couldn't reach otherwise. My > isolation distance for most designs is in the 20mil range, though 10 mil > is undoubtedly fine even if hand-soldering if the boards are made at a > boardhouse (as opposed to handmade). -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads