Making a pin passive does not change the connection status. It will still require a wire to it. If you really do not want to use a pin, then all you need to do is place a no connect flag on it, (the blue X 9th icon down on the right hand side)
Are you using KiCad libraries or stuff imported from other packages? Sometimes that can cause problems. Try a few tests with KiCad only libs and if that improves things, you may need to investigate the other libs that you are using, esp. the layout grid. If you have been making your own libs and mods, be VERY careful about pin names and numbers, the module and libs must match or things will get very confused. My clearance setting is the default 0.006 so this seems to be pointing to problems with your module pad sizes, or as you say things may not work until you sort out the connection issue. Until you get the connections sorted out, PCBnew won't really work as it needs a rats nest to work on. People do a lot more than produce home made PCB's with KiCad, so I think you have only got a few teething problems to sort out. (I only do home PCBs as well, and I have no problems.) If you want to try one of my homebrew circuits give me a mail and I'll send you a suitable project file to play with Andy On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Ted Huntington <huntington_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks: > > I solved my library problems, but still can't connect the wires to the > devices. Making a big circular junction that covers the wire and pin doesn't > make the connection. I made the pins passive and it still is making a warning > "unconnected pin". > Another nice feature to put on the todo list is: "resize wires" - that is > nice if a person just needs to move a wire over to connect precisely with a > pin. > In PCBNEW I'm getting "Track near pad" from the DRC, even with a clearance of > .001". I have to turn off the DRC to connect tracks. But then - I also have > no rat's nests connections because I can't get the pins to connect in > eeschema. But I think this is a completely workable program and I think I can > use this to do my own home etched PCBs. > Ted > > > > ________________________________
