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mounting hole and then track into the small SMT pad. Instead, we will route this down and
across the bottom of the board to a more convenient ground connection.
The Layout module features a sophisticated 'follow me' routing algorithm for manual routing in
which the route being placed will follow the path of the mouse as best it can while still obeying
all of the design rules for the board that we set up previously. You start track placement by left
clicking the mouse on pad 4 and then move the mouse downwards.
Routing J2 Pin 4
You should see that the closest legal destination for the track is now highlighted in white. This
will update as we move the mouse and since we are not going to route to this destination we
can ignore it for now. When the mouse approaches the bottom of the board, you could just
change direction to the left and the track will corner to follow the mouse. However, since we
want a tighter corner it is better to left click the mouse to place an anchor and then change
direction to the left.
You will see that as we move further to the left the ratsnest guide will change to show us that we
can terminate the track on pin 1 of jumper JP2.