Silly old discussion....
Robert wrote: > > > What I do is place the pad in roughly the right position and then edit > it (right click, Edit Pad) to set the exact size and position. For > convenience you will need to first select metric or inches as > appropriate to the component. What you will find is that since kicad > works fundamentally in inches, metric values will be rounded to some > seemingly nonsensical number with lots of decimal place. This is makes > it harder to check your work, but if you got it right then the absolute > error is in fact minimal and nothing to worry about. Usually I also > set the grid to a user-defined value (in metric) so I can spot offset > pads more easily. > > Regards, > > Robert. > > NdK wrote: > > Robert ha scritto: > >> You shouldn't have any problems (at least I don't) other than the pads > >> wont lie on the visible grid. So long as you have magnetic pads turned > >> on in the options, the tracks will be "drawn" to the pads. > > Well, the problem is that I couldn't find how to draw exactly with the > > specified step. The only thing I can do is select a grid size in mils > > that, once drawn, "more or less" lets the pads in te right place. It > > gets harder when using a long pin strip. > > > > Or am I missing something? > > How would you draw a SIL pinout for a component with 20 pins 1mm apart? > > I've had to use a really fine grid and do some rounding... Hope there's > > a better approach! > > > > BYtE, > > Diego. > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > 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 <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 > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo>! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 8.5.387 / Virus Database: 270.13.9/2228 - Release Date: > 07/09/09 18:07:00 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.387 / Virus Database: 270.13.9/2228 - Release Date: 07/09/09 > 18:07:00 > >
