DESIGN RULE CHECK

07/08/2021

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DESIGN RULE CHECK

Designing a PCB in Autodesk EAGLE is a fun and rewarding process, but it doesn’t happen in isolation. While you might be designing your board in your PCB design software, at the end of the day, you’ll likely ship off your files to a manufacturer to create a physical circuit board. And in the world of PCB manufacturing, there are some very real physical constraints that you need to pay attention. This is where a Design Rule Check comes into play.

Rather than designing your board without a care for your manufacturer’s limitations, a Design Rule Check allows you to establish a set of boundaries for trace widths, component spacing, via diameters, etc. It’s only after you have all of these rules set up that you can then go about completing your design process, knowing that any issue with these manufacturing-specific constraints will be flagged in Autodesk EAGLE when you run your DRC.