Gerald Thompson
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Gerald Thompson commented,
Ok. I figured out a work around. SInce my board has many parallel tracks which often need to fit between pads on connectors I wanted 0.10" as my default. And since the using the default settings...
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Gerald Thompson commented,
Yes I'm aware of those classes etc. It's just that when I start drawing a new track if keeps defaulting to the signal nominal width so I either have to start again after resetting it, or change th...
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Gerald Thompson commented,
A suggestion for drawing tracks. I had a play with Kicad and found a useful feature. It provides a safe margin automatically which avoids breaking design rules interactively. In this example the...
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Confusion related to "Delete Track Does Unroute"
Hi. I looked at older post which seemed related, but I am still confused about behaviours when manually adding tracks which do not have an existing net connection from the schematic. Here is my e...
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Gerald Thompson commented,
Thanks - changing the grid reference makes sense. But as above looks like some components might still have issues? For example try routing a DsuB board mounted connector! The distance between p...
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Gerald Thompson created a post,
Track style default problem.
Hi. I seem to have an issue setting default track style when manually drawing tracks. In defaults I set the default style to signal min. But when I select to draw a track it draws a signal nom w...
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Gerald Thompson commented,
Your example does not have any tracks running between pads. I think I've mentioned before that to run a track at an even distance between two pads on a component you often need a finer snap settin...
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Gerald Thompson commented,
It makes some sort of sense I guess. I mean that holes are pads, if they don't have another classification... It is still odd that if you add a pad to the pcb symbol it doesn't appear in the text ...
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Gerald Thompson commented,
Hi. Thanks. I banged my head over it for a while but didn't think of that trick... The thing that got me was that the list of pin assignments didn't list any extra pins so where were they? :(