Re: gEDA-user: Breaking a track into two segments by using a hole

2008-11-11 Thread Simon Clubley
On 08/11/2008, Simon Clubley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/11/2008, DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try doing it this way instead: Instead of one long track, use many track segments - one between each pair of vias. Then, you can just remove the segments you need to,

Re: gEDA-user: Breaking a track into two segments by using a hole

2008-11-11 Thread Simon Clubley
On 11/11/2008, Peter Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you could post that as an example, or make some screen-shots available on the web somewhere? I'm curious to see what this looks like. So just to clarify, you are saying it's ok to post a .png as an attachment on this mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: Breaking a track into two segments by using a hole

2008-11-11 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 13:41 +, Simon Clubley wrote: On 11/11/2008, Peter Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you could post that as an example, or make some screen-shots available on the web somewhere? I'm curious to see what this looks like. So just to clarify, you are saying

Re: gEDA-user: Breaking a track into two segments by using a hole

2008-11-11 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 13:13 +, Simon Clubley wrote: On 08/11/2008, Simon Clubley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to make selecting the individual track segments easier, I also switched to Power sized tracks, and Signal sized vias. I get lots of DRC warnings, but the example circuit from

Re: gEDA-user: Breaking a track into two segments by using a hole

2008-11-08 Thread Simon Clubley
On 07/11/2008, DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try doing it this way instead: Instead of one long track, use many track segments - one between each pair of vias. Then, you can just remove the segments you need to, independently of turning vias into holes. Thank you. I'll try that

Re: gEDA-user: Breaking a track into two segments by using a hole

2008-11-07 Thread DJ Delorie
Try doing it this way instead: Instead of one long track, use many track segments - one between each pair of vias. Then, you can just remove the segments you need to, independently of turning vias into holes. The pcb code doesn't notice when a track is disconnected due to physical damage

gEDA-user: Breaking a track into two segments by using a hole

2008-11-07 Thread Simon Clubley
This is PCB 20080202 on Linux. I've written a plugin and external program to allow me to use Veroboard layouts within PCB. This is working just fine for the most part, but I'm having problems with breaking a track into two pieces - it's looking like the rats nest routines continue to see it as