David has given the basic working method. If you have drawn a circuit, simply add 1 pin connectors where your wires will be connected to. When you run cvtPCB USE 1 pin connectors then you will be able to place them. Obviously you don't have to install the connectors when making the board, You can just use the pad. I would suggest that you edit the pad to be much bigger, as there is not much copper on the connector pads.
I would also suggest that you do use some sort of pin rather than the bare pads, it protects the copper, which if thin lifts very easily. Andy On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:38:58 -0500 Bill Kelsey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi - > > I am slowly learning to use Kicad. I am attempting to do my first > simple boards, and have a few questions that have probably been answered > before, but I can not find the answer in the documentation or 0n-line. > > I want to connect to the board with wires. How do I place a pad on the > board and then connect a track to it? I have been able to define a pad > footprint in a library, and place it on the board, but I can not get a > track to connect it to the piece of the circuit I want to connect to. > I can get the track, but I can not get it to terminate anywhere. What > am I missing?? > > -- > 73 - Bill - N8ET > www.kangaus.com > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > >
