That's eventually what I had to do. DRC then complained profusely about the vias under the pads. I think that is because when I moved the chip back to the original position, I did not get it exact and the vias were no longer directly under the pads.
Greg ________________________________ From: Juan Franco <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 2:55:37 PM Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Changing trace's net Hello Greg You could try disabling DRC in PCBNEW so that it will let you connect the tracks to the correct net, and then re-enabling DRC to check. I think the tracks will be assigned to the correcponding nets. Regards Juan. --- On Fri, 9/4/09, Greg Dyess <[email protected]> wrote: >From: Greg Dyess <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Changing trace's net >To: [email protected] >Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 8:51 AM > > > > >I seem to especially skillful at finding/creating odd situations. > > > > ________________________________ From: Andy Eskelson <andyya...@g0poy. co.uk> >To: kicad-users@ yahoogroups. com >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 <gregory.dyess@ yahoo.com> 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 > > > mailto:kicad-users- fullfeatured@ yahoogroups. com > > >
