Re: gEDA-user: PCB: problem with edge connector element

[John Luciani <jcljr58@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was able to run two traces to the edge connector on
the component side and two on the solder side.

I did the following:

1. I opened the schematic and changed the reference
   from U? to U2
2. converted the sch to pcb
3. opened the file using pcb
4. loaded the net netlist
5. placed the parts and routed the traces.

(* jcl *)


--- 9000 VAX <vax9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi list,
>   I am using pcb version Jan. 27, 2005 snapshot. I
> met a problem when
> trying to use edge connector element. I created the
> edge connector
> element, and everything looked fine from the ascii
> file. The connector
> has pads on both the component side and the solder
> side. I place the
> element on board, and the ratnests looked fine too.
> Then I chose the
> solder side, chose the line tool, and started to
> draw a line, with the
> starting point on one solder side pad. But It seemed
> that the software
> did not allow me to draw a line as described above.
> I had no problem
> to draw a line from the component side pad. I made a
> test file with
> only two small elements. Please take a look and let
> me know how to
> work around the problem. Thank you very much!
>   file attached as a .zip file (4kB only), which
> includes,
>   1. TESTEDGE.sym   the schematic symbol
>   2. testedge.sch    the schematic
>   3. TESTEDGE     the new library style element file
>   4. testedge.prj      project file for gsch2pcb
>   5. testedge.net     netlist file generated by
> gsch2pcb
>   6. testedge.pcb    the pcb file
> You might want to open testedge.pcb with pcb, then
> try to draw a line
> as I described. Thank you again!
> 
> vax, 9000
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/zip name=testedge.zip