Re: gEDA-user: egg on face removed... but why...?

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 11:57 -0400, Ian Chapman wrote:
> 
> xgsch2pcb handles this all for you, and can also update new components
> into a running copy of PCB. (It drops them in a pile in the top corner).
> 
> I must try Peter's xgsch2pcb but I am a wee bit wary of dropping components
> onto the PCB.  The pins have a nasty knack of sticking to existing traces
> and once moved drag the traces into a mess.  I have two solutions,
> file/preferences/size and make the work area bigger than the PCB and drop em
> into the empty space or turn off the copper layers.  Regards Ian.


Switch off settings -> Rubberband mode before yuo move them.

I need to fix a "Rat-parts" mode.
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