On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 12:50 +0000, Mark Johnson wrote: > Hi everybody > > kidcad is great! > > I'm following the mini-tutorial at: > http://kicad.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Mini_tutorial > > which is very good, if a bit out-of-date. > > I have a couple of quick questions. > > The tutorial says that in PCBnew, if you turn on "module ratsnest", you > should get rubberbanding of the airwires when you move a module. But this > button seems to have no effect at all. Also, I can't figure out how to see > each net separately when I click on a pin or module--"Display local ratsnest" > works, but it always shows each net I click, without erasing the previous one. > > Does anyone have any hints for how to effectively show and use ratsnest and > airwire view controls? >
do you need to drag instead of move? or maybe the "show general rats nest needs to be selected > Thanks > > --Mark Johnson > Silver Spring, MD > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your > question. > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of > Kicad. > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your > symbols/modules to the kicad library. > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the > kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups > Links > > > -- "In years past, I knew of someone who used emacs as his login shell, the only thing he found wanting in emacs was a good text editor. So he ended up using vi." - Anonymous Brian Beattie<[email protected]> http://www.beattie-home.net
