I've noticed an odd behavior with PCB when moving things about. Right now I'm just moving footprints around on the board, I have not laid down any traces. When I started working this morning I would grab objects and there would be a red outline showing how the object followed my cursor. This was true whether I was moving the footprint or just the label. At some point during the morning this red outline behavior stopped. I can move objects, but the helpful outline is missing. Is this triggered by some hot key I may have bumped? I looked in the documentation, but could not find anything.
Speaking of placement, can you give me a few pointers on spacing of components? For example, if I have a few DIP sockets side by side, what is the closest practical placement assuming trace routing is not an issue? How about for placing resistors (R025 footprint)? The default grid is 10 mils -- does it make sense to increase this to, say, 50 mils for placing components then return to 10 for placing traces? I am not using surface mount devices on this project. Thanks for all of the help. --Jim _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
