Victor Faria wrote: > All, > Is the a way to just jump into the pcb program and start creating > without the schematic? > what I would like to do do is just go into pcb and start droping in > footprint and conect the pins with a > line/ rat line and then autoroute. > Pcbwizard, diptrace,easypc, and others do this I tried to do it with > kicad but I hvent been sucesfull. > It could be lack of experiance on my part. I just feel that circuit > desin is like twice the work > if your just doing simple small to medium boards. > thanks > victor > > > > > You can place footprints and route (if you turn the erc) by hand without the schematic. But, to get rat lines and to auto route,you need a net list which is produced from the schematic in Eeschema.
Dave - WB6DHW <http://wb6dhw.com>
