I seem to especially skillful at finding/creating odd situations.
________________________________ From: Andy Eskelson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 10:30:39 AM Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Changing trace's net That's a bit odd, because when I create a small amount of tracking that needs to be duplicated, it can end up with odd nets on the tracks. When I copy the tracks and attach them to the part of the board than needs them they pick up the correct nets. Andy On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 06:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Greg Dyess <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, this may at first sound a little strange. I need to change the net > associated with a trace after the trace is drawn. > > Why would I need to do this you ask? Good question there from the back row. > If a trace is created but not connected to anything initially, it can never > be connected to something later because it is assigned to net 0. > > The same thing can happen to a via used to connect a pad to an inner zone > (say a VCC layer). I had this happen to me recently when I had to move a > footprint that disconnected several traces. When I tried to reconnect the > new pad positions to the original traces and/or vias, the DRC checking would > not let me do it because the original trace was now in net 0 instead of > retaining the original net name. > > Has anyone else run across this? Any work-arounds other than digging through > the .BRD file and hand-correcting it? > > Thoughts? Suggestions? > > My thought would be to allow the user to right-click a track and set the net > it was associated with. Has this been considered? Am I the only person to > make such mistakes? > > Thanks, > Greg > > > ------------------------------------ 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
