Re: gEDA-user: pcb program

[Seb James <seb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:53 +0000, Seb James wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have moved on from the schematic capture part of my project to laying
> out the board.
> 
> I'm using pcb 20070208. I've noticed a couple of odd things so far. One
> is that if I create a rats nest, then sometimes, pcb decides to just
> fill the whole screen with the colour of the rats nest. I can switch off
> the rats nest layer, but can't get a proper rats nest in this case.
> Could that have anything to do with the size of my board? I set it to 50
> inches by 30 inches so that I could auto disperse all the components to
> get started - planning to shrink it down later to a more sensible size.

This problem is occurring a lot. A screenshot is here:

http://www.esfnet.co.uk/pcb_screenshot_after_erase_rats.png

This is going to be problematic. I'm already starting to need the rats
nest to help me lay the components out.

> This isn't too much of an issue right now, as I am in the process of
> manually moving my components to sensible regions of the board. However,
> I'm seeing some odd behaviour related to selecting components, then
> being unable to de-select them.
> 
> Am I seeing any known bugs here?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Seb James
> 
> 
> 
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