Em Qua 22 Fev 2006 18:18, DJ Delorie escreveu: > > The optional milimeter coordinates in PCB are great! They allowed me > > to select a suitable footprint for a SMD diode according to a > > datasheet where the dimensions are printed in milimeters! > > It gets better. I just created a footprint with some pins on mm grid > and others on inch grid. I laid out most of the footprint on the mm > grid (well, 0.5mm), then switched to 0.1" grid to lay out the pins. I > selected all those pins, switched back to mm grid, pin-snapped to > select one of them, then moved that pin onto the mm grid so it (and > thus the other 0.1" pins) lined up with the other pins correctly. > > I still need to add mm support to the route styles dialog in the > lesstif hid, though. The other ones switch according to the grid > setting, that one doesn't.
I dont like to route the board in mm, I allways route in inches, even when I have mm footprint. Because of the wonderfull resource that atracts the cursor to the pin, even when he is outside the grid, I really never needed to modify my grid setting (I normally route with 25 mils). What I miss is a resource to lock the grid settings. Thats because I use a lot the F key (to look hows attached to a net) and F is the key next to G, so is common to press G when I wanted to press F. The grid become 30 mils and the route becomes strange. Normally I have to unroute a lot of work because I did it in 30 mils...
