Just tried it out with a couple of odd sized libs and mods.
PCBnew is OK, it will snap to the pins even if the grids are different. Eeschma will not (not having the equ. of a magnetic pad unless I've missed it somewhere), the grids must be compatiable Andy On Mon, 25 May 2009 20:52:08 -0300 "Alain M." <[email protected]> wrote: > It does here. So if it doesn't for you , that is a setup problem. > > Alain > > Andy Eskelson escreveu: > > I don't think magnetic pads cure that problem. Magnetic pads are useful > > in that when you are adding tracks the track will snap to the pad, however > > it does NOT (as far as I know) solve the position issue unless the grids > > of the mod/lib and pcbBew /escheema are compatible. i.e. the pins/pads > > must fall on a grid point on the layout/circuit that you are working > > on.They should be, but I have sometimes made the mistake of getting the > > pins half a grid point off which causes quite a bit of trouble until you > > notie what you have done :-) > > > > > > > > > > Andy > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 25 May 2009 15:15:47 -0300 > > "Alain M." <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Andy Eskelson escreveu: > >>> What can happen is that you may set out your component with a 25 > >>> grid, and your circuit with a 20 grid. The component will sit on the > >>> grid OK, with the reference dot on a grid point, but things like pins and > >>> pads (if you are talking about a module) will be out of step, and will > >>> not connect. > >> there is an easy and very good solution fot that. It is called > >> "magnectig pads" and it dinamicaly conects to unaligned pads. > >> > >> Alain > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------ > >> > >> 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 > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > >
