Thank you for your answer. I will try to make a simple schematic and netlist, to see if it works better... But it is my understanding that I shouldn't be forced to go through those steps.
Axel --- In [email protected], Ricardo Cárdenes Medina <ricardo.carde...@...> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:39 AM, ma...@... <mad...@...> 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. >
