On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:46:38 -0400 John Ackermann N8UR <jra@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi -- > > I just started playing with gschem and pcb today, and have almost > finished a simple board. > > I am having two problems. > > The first is that when I use the line tool to manually place a line, I > often can't get the line to touch the pad -- the crosshairs just won't > go there. I'm guessing this is an issue of screen resolution, and that > when the board is laid out, things will join up. Is that correct? You have to set to the correct grid, and there's an option "enable crosshair snaps to pins/pdads" or something like this. Very usefull! Check the "drc auto enforce" option too. > The second is the subject line of this message. After placing all the > lines, some via autoroute and some manually, when I then use a rectangle > over the whole area to add a groundplane, only a few of the lines remain > visible; it seems others are overwritten by the rectangle tool. How do > I "flood" the board to put a groundplane, without losing the lines that > I've previously laid? You should lay your lines with the "enable new line/arc clear polygons" options checked. Have fun with gEDA tools! Levente __ E-Mail: lekovacs@xxxxxxxxxxxx AIM: ha5ogl ICQ: 48710903 MSN: ha5ogl@xxxxxxxxxxx Yahoo!: kieg_tk16 Home Page: http://web.interware.hu/lekovacs Public key: http://web.interware.hu/lekovacs/cuccok/public_key ________________________________________ /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML email & vCards / \ http://arc.pasp.de/ Have Fun, & Linux! 73 for all by HA5OGL. This message was generated by Sylpheed.
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