On Thursday, January 19, 2012 01:35:29 AM Erik Christiansen did opine: > On 18.01.12 10:01, gene heskett wrote: > > I was under the impression that there was a hidden linkage > > between the schematic and the footprint. > > The hidden linkage is the pin mapping in the package. The package > automatically appears in the board view when the symbol is placed in the > schematic. There is no pin location information visible in the symbol. > > ... > > > What I am mentally missing is the linkage between the schematic, and > > the terminals of the packages footprint which carry no labels, since > > in this application, the mechanical location of the device on the > > board is very important. > > A boots-first approach works well here, since the schematic and layout > contain no magic smoke. If you just whack all your components into the > schematic, _and_wire_them_up_, then little yellow "air wires" will > appear between the package pins on the board. (Again, the board is only > one mouse click away when you're in the schematic editor, so flipping > back and forth, as you muck with both, is trivial. > > Those "air wires" allow you to verify which pin is connected where, > thereby confirming the correlation with the symbol, by simple > observation. > > In the future, if there's so much on the board that picking the right > wire is problematic, then try using the "i" Info tool in the schematic. > Click it on the desired wire. (The right hand wire in yesterday's demo > schematic shows as "N$1") Click the "Board" icon on the horizontal > toolbar, and you flick to the board layout. Select "i" there also, and > click on either of the two "air wires", to positively identify the > connection. Now we can't go wrong, at least not without a supreme > effort. ;-) > ... > > > But today I have a termite company installing new, kill em all, baits. > > That is something else WV apparently has a surplus of, termites, in 22 > > years this will be the 3rd attempt to nuke them. > > > > Thanks Erik. > > No worries. :-) > And I didn't get back to it today. After they got done planting traps I went to get one of my BP rifles I had sent back as the barrel was damaged and I was having trouble hitting the same wall of the barn I had aimed at while I was inside the barn.
This was about a 5 year old TC Omega 50 cal. And it blew me away when it came back no charge, I was expecting about a $400 bill for a fresh SS barrel and would have dropped the card in a heartbeat. Thompson Center, now a part of Smith & Wesson, really does stand behind their stuff, even if it was the idiot owner that mucked it up, which it was 100% my fault. That says a lot to me. Now I need some decent weather for a trip to the range, I need some trigger time. ;-) > I should really renew my termite defences too. It's a bit late once > they're in. > > Erik Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Got Mole problems? Call Avogadro at 6.02 x 10^23. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
