At 05:50 PM 3/28/2002 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: >This is scary. I generally click in the center of the component, as I >usually do NOT want to edit the pad, but the component. But, sometimes, >especially when there is netlist trouble, I click on the pad to see the net >name >more clearly than the way it is drawn over the pad. Scary to think you can > >move the pad with a bobble on the mouse button!
Protel should warn before completing an edit on a footprint pad (if pads are locked), but it isn't a terribly common problem. You'd have to actually edit the entries in the X and Y coordinates of the pad. You might also move a footprint pad by, for example, having selected the pad and having left it selected, doing a global edit on a free pad and altering the X or Y coordinate, *and* changing the scope to "all primitives" from "free primitives." I haven't verified this; once again, this would not be easy to do accidentally, particularly if one is careful about global edits, as one should *always* be. Pay attention to the count of changes reported before okaying it!!! Since most of us have never seen a pad move as described, unless one of these possible causes rings a bell, we may not be able to identify the cause, *unless* the behavior can be reproduced. For all we know, it was a cosmic ray.... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
