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Re: gEDA-user: pcb, howto get plain rats lines instead of circles



On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 18:34 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> Am Montag, den 06.10.2008, 10:55 -0700 schrieb Ben Jackson:
> > 
> > Is it possible you optimized the ratlist while they were over a polygon
> > and then moved them?  The ratlist never reevaluates due to dragging a part.
> > For normal rats this just means less optimal lines running around, but if
> > you have a 'via rat' it will persist even after the drag until you hit 'O'
> > again.
> > 
> > You may have a plane on a layer you turned off.  I haven't looked at the
> > PCB file.
> > 
> 
> I think it is really a bug of version 20080202.
> 
> Currently this bug is not a big problem for me, because I have replaced
> all planes with thick lines. But I will need more planes soon...
> 
> Maybe someone can test with cvs head. I will myself make a test with a
> layout created from scratch. 

I'd be interested to see this test-case too. I'm sure I've hit similar
problems.

It "might" in my case, have picked up saying "yes, I'm inside this huge
polygon", where actually, half of it was cleared away by other tracking.

See the attached test file.

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)

Attachment: test.pcb
Description: application/pcb-layout


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