On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
> Here is what Mr. Reagan was talking about. Double-click on a no-net track > that is, say, on the top layer. If you don't have a no-net, just put a > piece of top layer track down, it will automatically be no-net unless it > touches a real net. Yep - loads of no-net stuff lying around, after deleting all the components in a functional block - which left behind the tracks that I'm trying to kill. > Press the Global button. Under Attributes to Match By, select "same." Under > layer, you might want to select "same" as well. Click on the Selection box, > then click on okay. All top layer no-net track will be selected. Nope. Really, no. It doesn't. It selects the connected copper, _not_ all no-net tracks. (or it might be remembering a net-name from ages ago, or almost anything. What it doesn't do is what it should...). I wonder if features which were originally on a net but have had their connectivity removed, behave differently to brand new no-net features... (just checked - this would appear to be the case. Features which used to be on nets, but which now aren't, as a result of deleting the parts they were attached to, and updating the PCB with "assign net to connected copper" ticked, don't fall properly back to no-net, and therefore don't get globaled properly. I now think this is a bug, rather than my confusion. > You could leave out the "top layer" match, but then all no-net track, > including track on mechanical layers, etc., will be selected. If you object > was to delete no-net track, you would not want that, so you would need to > unselect it. Instead, selecting track one layer at a time is reasonably easy. What you say is true, except that selecting on "no net" doesn't select all no-net tracks / features. Steve * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
