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Re: gEDA-user: How to connect pads to anything?



Looking at your screen shot I'd say that J2 is on the solder side
(so it's greyed), while J1 and the brown traces are on component side
- that's why the trace does not connect to J2 while it appears to overlap.
The rat line on the overlapping pin is not a dot, probably because it
connects to the first point in the pad-definition.

Markus Hitter wrote:

Am 17.10.2010 um 15:47 schrieb Stefan Salewski:

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 14:50 +0200, Markus Hitter wrote:
Hello all,

yesterday I tried to replace a number of 2-pin jumpers (footprint
JUMPER2) with solder jumpers.

Of course, this should work fine, it does for me.
gsch2pcb removes the old footprints, but for my 2009 snapshot it has not
put the new ones, you have to do something like "load element data to
buffer" to insert the new ones, and you may have to load the new netlist
again. And you have to watch for the orientation of the new footprints,
you may have to rotate them 180 degree. And press "O" key to update
ratsnest.

Did you make your layout with the autorouter? I have done all manually,
so I am not sure if the autorouter needs special care when exchanging
footprints.

For replacing footprints there is a special mode which allows you to
replace single footprints -- sorry can not remember currently.

Thanks for the quick answer, Karl, Stefan. All what you suggest works fine already. The new pads appear, I route mostly manually and I can flip the pad

The problem is, an overlap between a pad and a track isn't recognized as a connection. I'll try to show this with a screenshot, the rats nest is freshly optimized:


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