I realized that the problems I had were compounded that prevented successful pcb connections. 1) Some of the library symbols that came with the install the pins were number alphabetically and not numerically. This showed up as ? in the netlist. 2) Second the inverted GND triangle does not work..I swopped it for the VDD with the circle and it worked. 3) Somehow the netlisting in the schematic side just added to the netlist file so the results in the pcb was not always in sync. When I deleted the netlist file it sorted many issues. (I did have the replace modules tick on when importing the netlist into the pcb app.
With the flagging of incompatible connections between components I set the library parts to passive to avoid warnings from the erc check. There seems to be a bug in this as it does not behave as I would expect anyway. Martin --- In [email protected], Ted Huntington <huntington_...@...> wrote: > > I finally figured out how to connect pins on the schematic. Set the grid to > 5mil and it is easy to connect them using the SVN version. I think I will use > Kicad instead of Eagle and others to make PCBs - it's fine - hopefully a nice > stable version will created with all the recent additions, minus the current > errors. > > There appears to be some problem with the GND power symbol being switched > from Power to Input in the SVN version. > > I'm still not understanding the idea behind labeling each pin by type (power > out/in) - in particular, I have capacitors as passive - but then I get - > "power pin not driven" at the GND power device. I can't believe that there > would need to be a different capacitor for each kind of connection (power > out, power in, ...) - and the same is true for terminals - for example on a > 24 pin terminal some of the pins might be inputs other outputs - I guess > people need to make a specific device for each configuration of input/output > pins they want to use for some particular PCB? > > Sometimes in PCBNew I'm getting DRC errors even when pins are connected- > possibly from changing the net names. Can somebody verify that adding a > global net label anywhere in the connection labels every net in the > connection, where a normal net label only labels a single segment? > > thanks > Ted > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Pedro Martin <pki...@...> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, May 4, 2009 3:17:20 AM > Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Re: Schematic junctions not connecting > > > > > > Hi, > > I have not followed the thread, but have you checked that the square end of > the wire disappear when you connect the ground symbol? > > Do not connect the ground symbol directly to a pin, put wire between them. > > Pedro. > > > Any other ideas to get the ground symbol to connect to the circuit? > > > > --- In kicad-users@ yahoogroups. com, "martin_de_lange@ ..." <de_lange@ .> > wrote: > > > > > > Yes I did connect to the centre of the hor line > > > > > > > > > --- In kicad-users@ yahoogroups. com, Robert <birmingham_ spider@> wrote: > > > > > > > > The ground symbol is a bit weird in that it doesn't have a salient pin. > > > > Did you connect a wire to the centre of the horizontal line? > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > Robert. > > > > > > > > martin_de_lange@ wrote: > > > > > In the schematic capture some junction shows the non connected flag > > > > > when I run the ERC. I used only the supplied library and worked on > > > > > the 50 grid. In the netlist I can also see some are not connecting > > > > > and the consistent culprit is the ground symbol. Any ideas please? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------ --------- --------- ------ > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > > > > Version: 8.5.287 / Virus Database: 270.12.8/2086 - Release Date: > > > > > 04/29/09 06:37:00 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
