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[Andrew Zonenberg <azonenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've already fixed item 2 in a pending patch (three-line change to
PNS_ROUTER::syncVia, works experimentally but not heavily tested).

With any luck there will be a fix for 3 soon as well. 1 will be more
work and I'm not sure I have time to patch that right now.

On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 17:37 +0200, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> On 22.07.2014 17:32, Andrew Zonenberg wrote:
> > I've found three problems so far:
> >
> > 1) Pressing the "insert blind via" key when using the push-and-shove
> > router does not actually add a blind via.
> >
> > 2) In both "avoid" and "shove" mode, the router treats blind vias as
> > through-board vias and will move or avoid them even if there's no real
> > collision (for example, routing a layer 4 trace under a blind layer 1-2
> > via doesn't work). I've been mitigating this by drawing the portion of
> > the track that goes under a blind via by hand, but all of the mode
> > switching is awkward.
> >
> > 3) When a blind via is moved by the router in "shove" mode, it is
> > converted to a through-board via.
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> There's no support yet for blind/buried vias in the P&S. We may add it 
> in the near future.
> 
> Regards,
> Tom
> 

-- 
Andrew Zonenberg
PhD student, security group
Computer Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
http://colossus.cs.rpi.edu/~azonenberg/

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