Re: gEDA-user: Net of Selected Common Pins Enroutes Shortest Path Through All Intervening Pins

2010-01-06 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:29:35 -0500, Stan Katz wrote: > Done. If the problem was a newbie misconception what a ratline is, then a closer look at the tutorial might remove similar show-stoppers: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gsch2pcb_tutorial A list of all available tutorials can be foun

Re: gEDA-user: Net of Selected Common Pins Enroutes Shortest Path Through All Intervening Pins

2010-01-05 Thread Stan Katz
Done. Thank you gentlemen. I understand queries such as mine are "clutter" in high quality list traffic, such as found here. Other such lists have mercilessly sent me to /dev/null in the past. I appreciate your kindness in responding. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:15 AM, John Griessen

Re: gEDA-user: Net of Selected Common Pins Enroutes Shortest Path Through All Intervening Pins

2010-01-05 Thread John Griessen
Stan Katz wrote: No matter >how I draw the nets in gschem, the final rats nest runs produced in >pcb is one trace, across all the pins on each side of the SOIC, as >long as any of them are in the star end-run to the header pin. In >other words, if I want to tie pins 1,3,5, of the

Re: gEDA-user: Net of Selected Common Pins Enroutes Shortest Path Through All Intervening Pins

2010-01-05 Thread DJ Delorie
Rats don't short copper they travel across; they only electrically connect their endpoints. It's up to you - the layout person - to put copper (not rats) in the right places. PCB has some settings to help with this, like auto-enforce DRC clearance which highlights pins in the same net when you s

gEDA-user: Net of Selected Common Pins Enroutes Shortest Path Through All Intervening Pins

2010-01-05 Thread Stan Katz
I use gEDA for small projects. One, and two sided boards only. It's been fine up until now. I now have a transceiver chip with some pins, a number of which I need to run to pin 1 on an IDE header. No matter how I draw the nets in gschem, the final rats nest runs produced in pcb is