Re: gEDA-user: Mystery unrouteable rat in pcb ?

[armdeveloper <armdeveloper@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:34 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > The first I can understand because it would take 2 vias to make it
> > work.  Its not trivial.
> > 
> > The second I don't understand.  It looks trival and yet the line
> > stays as a rat instead of routing.  Any ideas ?  Nothing appears in
> > the pcb.log window.
> 
> .pcb file ?

You want me to post it ?

> > I've also got a warning message about a cap that is shorted to GND
> > and shorted to 5V.  That is what I want, right ?  Why is it giving
> > me a warning ?  I had to hand route that because the footprint pin
> > identifiers didn't match the symbol.
> 
> Better to fix the footprint to match, else the rats logic will
> complain.  All it does is compare the netlist to the board, and
> complain about anything that differs.

OK.  That makes sense.

> Also, if you move the part to the other side, sometimes it ends up
> with the pins swapped, so double check those when you do that.

The parts I moved to the other side work fine.  They are still
autorouting because the footprint worked.  I have a couple caps whereby
the footprint pins don't match the symbol. 




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