On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:39 AM, ma...@ymail.com <mad...@free.fr> wrote:
> > > Hello group! > This is my first post, so I apologize but I'm afraid I need some help! > > I installed Kicad (2010-05-05 BZR 2356) on Ubuntu Lucid64. Fine. As far as > drawing schematics, everything is ok. Now if I try to draw a PCB without > schematic, without netlist, without autorouter... Just a simple one sided > circuit board. I create a new project, open PCB new, place say a DIP-8_300 > component, click on 'add traces and vias', start tracing... and get: > Type Err(4) trace near pad > > What the hell am I doing wrong. > As far as I can see, the problem is that you're trying to draw a track to/from a pad that doesn't have a net assigned. How to assign a net to a pad? Editing the pad of course, but as you're coming from a "blank" situation, with no netlist, then I don't know how it works... Tagging a pad with a net that doesn't exists will actually crash my pcbnew.
