kai-martin knaak wrote:
Jim wrote:
While we're talking about vias, why is the default via size smaller than
the DRC checks for?
Everytime I generate a board and forget to reset the via size the vias
fail the DRC check.
How do you generate your boards in the first place? With gsch2pcb, or by
starting pcb with no file?
These two ways use different sets of defaults. Unfortunately, the defaults
used by gsch2pcb are hard coded somewhere in the source. By contrast, pcb
reads the defaults from its config files in ~/.pcb/settings, or
~/.pcb/preferences
If you want to improve your work-flow and have pcb set-up to your needs, you
may first prepare an empty layout with a call of pcb. Then use gsch2pcb to
populate the empty layout with components via the update mechanism.
---<)kaimartin(>---
Since a beginner at this most likely is following the tutorial and the
tutorial uses gsch2pcb, I'd like to think of that method as being the
natural way. I understand you can use these tools in a bunch of
different ways, but a beginner won't know (most likely) any way except
what is taught in the tutorial. That beginner would also not understand
that it's important to set the via size as Stefan says. Of course, I'm
a beginner and have no idea why a default via size is a bad thing.
After all there is a default board size and I'm fairly certain almost no
one leaves this setting alone.
Anyway, it didn't make a lot of sense to have a checker complain about a
default setting. But then I fall into the beginner category.
Thanks,
Jim.
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