Re: [PEDA] Schematic driven PCB Layout (and schematic net classes)

2001-11-28 Thread Jan Martin Wagenaar
Hi Steve! Please beware that when you use PcbDirectives *all* items mentioned in the PcbDirective-menu are placed upon the net. This includes f.e. the 'routing layer' resulting in that the net is*only* routed on that layer as only one layer can be selected. Of course you can delete all the

Re: [PEDA] Schematic driven PCB Layout

2001-11-28 Thread Stephen Smith
. Steve -Original Message- From: Anthony Whitesell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 November 2001 18:49 To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Schematic driven PCB Layout Steve, It appears that you have found the quirk called you can only use whole numbers. I tried setting an imperial

[PEDA] Schematic driven PCB Layout

2001-11-27 Thread Stephen Smith
I want to use the PCBLayoutDirective, so that I can set up design rules from the schematic. I've never used it before, but I've figured out how to use them, and transfer them to the PCB, but why won't Protel let me edit the track, or via width to less than 1mm...I can't have 1mm tracks

Re: [PEDA] Schematic driven PCB Layout

2001-11-27 Thread Stephen Smith
Still playing with this, I discovered that it works if your PCB is set to imperial, but not metric. It seems that the schematic editor can only use imperial measurements..well it seems like that to me. Anyone know how to change this, as I generally use metric!! Steve I want to use the