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Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Connecting Nets by hand
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- From: 9000 VAX <vax9000@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:17:08 -0400
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The pins that you are going to connect must be connected in the
netlist file, otherwise the software won't allow you to connect them.
A way out is to disable the 'auto DRC clearance' in the settings manu.
vax, 9000
On 6/23/05, Samuel A. Falvo II <sam.falvo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm attempting to connect some nets by hand in a PCB layout that I
> have, but the thing won't let me! For example, after I get done
> drawing the vias and the actual lines, I end up with the following
> situation (please excuse the use of ASCII art, but a picture is more
> succinct than words here):
>
> o------ *
> | *
> | *
> | *
> |
> |
> o-- *
> *
>
> Note that there are unavoidable *gaps* between the pins of the ICs and
> the lines that join to them.
>
> I so far have not found *any* way to circumvent this. What am I doing
> wrong? I find it excruciatingly hard to believe that auto-routing and
> direct, point-to-point connections are the *only* way to join nets.
> :(
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Samuel A. Falvo II
>