Re: gEDA-user: DRC/rat quirks

2007-02-14 Thread Ben Jackson
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:06:34PM -0800, Harry Eaton wrote: > > which doesn't work for > > me even with "snap to pad". > > That's pretty hard to believe. The connectivity is > checked by a rigurous intersection test, no particular > points are required, any touching will do. Ok, I saw contrary d

Re: gEDA-user: DRC/rat quirks

2007-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
>For instance, you must turn it off if you are placing a via to connect > traces to finish off a rats nest, even if the rats are displayed properly. Ok, I can reproduce this. PCB expects you to do something else. What it wants is for you to draw the line off the first pin, change layers,

Re: gEDA-user: DRC/rat quirks

2007-02-13 Thread KURT PETERS
Kurt -- Message: 5 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:11:47 -0500 From: DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: DRC/rat quirks To: geda-user@moria.seul.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That's one. Another is that the rats for a net don&

Re: gEDA-user: DRC/rat quirks

2007-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> Strange. I'm sure the postscript is drawing those faint lines but > they shouldn't be visible since they are on top of or beneath a > solid fill. (The slices share a common edge where the line appears.) > Does your printed postscript show those lines (or worse gaps)? The prints appear OK. Both

Re: gEDA-user: DRC/rat quirks

2007-02-13 Thread Harry Eaton
> Because the postscript and pdf prints, on screen, > have faint lines > between slices, and I didn't know if the DRCbots > were going to > complain about them. Strange. I'm sure the postscript is drawing those faint lines but they shouldn't be visible since they are on top of or beneath a solid

Re: gEDA-user: DRC/rat quirks

2007-02-13 Thread Harry Eaton
-> That's one. Another is that the rats for a net > don't go away unless you > can get your line to end exactly the right place, > which doesn't work for > me even with "snap to pad". That's pretty hard to believe. The connectivity is checked by a rigurous intersection test, no particular points

Re: gEDA-user: DRC/rat quirks

2007-02-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ben Jackson wrote: There's another thread going on where someone is concerned about trusting a new feature in PCB when fabbing a board. Well, it's all new to me, and I don't know if I trust it yet. Maybe it has fabulous internals and a quirky interface, or maybe the internals are just as quir

Re: gEDA-user: DRC/rat quirks

2007-02-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> That's one. Another is that the rats for a net don't go away unless > you can get your line to end exactly the right place, which doesn't > work for me even with "snap to pad". I'd like to see a test case for this. > Also, the rat wire should give visual feedback as you route a net -- > rats

Re: gEDA-user: DRC/rat quirks

2007-02-13 Thread Ben Jackson
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:28:16AM -0700, Andy Peters wrote: > On Feb 13, 2007, at 8:37 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: > Ben Jackson wrote: > >>but I would like the ratsnesting to work in a sane > >>fashion and I'd like auto DRC to let me actually draw traces to > >>pads in the same net... > > > >Please b