Thanks,Dave and Harold I do own other pcb software, but I'm looking to make a change, I now have Pclogic, Rimu,and sprint layout. Kicad looks interesting, but I do like the place and autoroute features of other software. I'm not quite sure how it's done but, I think as you drop footprints on the pcb it automatically numbers them and uses the pin#s as nets. so when a temporary connection is made say to U1 >pin 1 and U2>pin 2 it creates the netlist on the fly. but I could be wrong. All I know is I do like that feature. right now I'm looking at PCBwizad and diptrace. does anyone have any experience good or bad with these . I have tried autotrax but it kept freezing my computer so I gave up on that one. thanks victor
----- Original Message ----- From: Harold King Tarun To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 2:59 AM Subject: [kicad-users] Re: Simple PCB Only Victor, Dave is right unless you want the hard way; build your own netlist file by hand. I suggest that since its a very simple circuit that you're building and you don't want to spend time building the schematic diagram you can jump to PCB directly as Dave said. You won't be using autoroute in simple circuits anyway. --- In [email protected], Dave - WB6DHW <brain...@...> wrote: > > 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> >
