Single sided PCB

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How to restrict the Freerouter to a single side?

[tama]

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Freerouter to a single side?

How to change track width and single side in freerouting

Hi, I was able to run free router on a Kicad layout and back annotate the routing back on the pcb. But during auto routing, the track width was chosen to be very thin and routing was done using both sides. I wanted to know the following: ** How to assign track width in auto routing? ** How to select on which layer the routing has to be done. I tried it on a board which had been manually routed (completely) on one layer. But auto router used both sides. Is here a way to tell auto router to use…

[jmk]

If the above eight year old thread is of little use, it may be wise to try places such as https://freerouting.org/.

Freerouting is an external, independent program adapted to run on many different PCB CAD tools. Freerouting is not part of Kicad.

[retiredfeline]

There are very few justfications for the pain of using single-sided PCBs now as it will cost the same or even more than standard double sided from the usual fabs. Only if you are DIYing PCBs with machining or toner transfer, or you are making zillions of cheap phenolic PCBs, or perhaps you are making single layer flex PCBs.