On 6/25/05, harry eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Turning off auto-DRC-checking is the only way that I was able to > >successfully connect pins by hand, at all. > > You must not have had any rats nest turned on.
PCB has rats nest turned on by default. And I keep it on, otherwise, I lose track of what gets connected to what. I've finally found a stupid little trick though. If I draw traces eminating FROM a pin (never TO a pin, since that violates DRC parameters apparently), and I change layers as I draw without actually placing the vias just yet, THEN place vias after I'm done drawing the trace, I can connect pins without having to turn off DRC. > Let's see, you can insert points, delete points, move lines, move line > endpoints, change > the thickness,what layer it's on, and how much it clears through polygons > or delete it. You can do this by segements and with a little more trouble > by whole nets. Before we moved to gtk it was very easy to bind a script > to a single key that would for example increase the thickness of all lines > on net by 1 mil. Now it seems like you have to recompile to do that. I still haven't found these features yet. For now, I will take your word that they exist, but looking at the various tools on the window or in the pop-up menus, nothing really stands out to me as letting me do any of the things you describe. What I think would be ideal is if the PCB editor would adopt the same UI conventions and, where applicable, the same *hotkeys*, as the gschem editor. That would alleviate a lot of the need to have to relearn a whole new UI. As it is right now, PCB violates pretty much every GUI standard ever written, with tons of hidden features (and apparently, features ONLY accessible via the keyboard). I strongly urge for the unification between gschem's editor and PCB's editor as much as is feasible. -- Samuel A. Falvo II
