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completing routing. You can do this by left clicking on an empty area of the Editing Window to
clear the selection. Typing route 25, followed by clean 2 should see the board completed
Finally, we can reduce trace length by typing recorner diagonal as a finishing touch.
Do note that there is much more flexibility in the command set than that shown in this tutorial,
both in the number of commands and in the parameters that control the command actions.
You can exit auto-routing at any time via the ESCAPE button on your keyboard.
Netlists and Design Changes
We have now placed and routed our layout based on the schematic we designed in the Proteus
tutorial. In practice however, it is very unlikely that we would not be making design changes
during the PCB process so we'll devote a little time to examining a typical workflow.
Clearly, we will be editing both the schematic and the layout modules so both need to be open.
If the schematic tab is closed you can open it from the application module toolbar at the top of
the Proteus application.
Proteus icon on the Application toolbar
Since we will be working with both modules you may want to split them into two frames if you
have two monitors. To do this simply drag one of the tabs onto the other monitor. For this
documentation, we will assume that the Schematic Capture and PCB Layout are open as tabs
inside a single Proteus frame.
Multiple tabs in one frame