Leo Potjewijd wrote:
> At 29/03/06 04:21, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> Kathy Quinlan wrote:
>  >  snip-snip
>  > Now when I place the track in the library, it comes up on the PCB as a
>  > violation, I have gone to the netlist manager and told it to update free
>  > primitives from component pads, but this does not seem to do the trick :(
> 
> This happens every time you do an update without the 'update PCB' 
> function, e.g. when you update the switch footprint and say 'update 
> PCB' from the library editor.
> The way around it is to temporarily(!) unlock the primitives of the 
> offending component, then do an 'update primitives'  with the Netlist 
> Manager. Don't forget to re-lock the primitives, or the component 
> might get screwed up later on.....

Funny, was the way I ended up doing it, thought there was a better way :(


> BTW: TSSOP footpints tend to be a litte bit smaller than the TSOP, 
> they are most defenitely NOT the same. Made that mistake once and got 
> a huge protest (and cost increase) from the board stuffer: they had 
> to manually check and re-position all the offending IC's after prooduction.

OUCH, yeap trying to avoid that problem ;)



> Good luck,
> Leo
> 



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