Re: gEDA-user: Questions about filling/using large nets/fills.

2010-03-08 Thread Jim
DJ Delorie wrote: First, make sure auto-enforce DRC is *disabled* so it will let you connect to something outside your net. Second, draw a trace/line out to that rectangle/polygon. Third, use the j key to join the trace/line to the rectangle/polygon. If you happen to have through-pins in that

gEDA-user: Questions about filling/using large nets/fills.

2010-03-07 Thread Jim
I was playing around with filling in the blank space with copper and thought it made sense to put part of it at ground potential, however I can't seem to run a connection to a rectangle from a ground pin. How's one go about that? The second question is pretty similar, I have to lay out an

Re: gEDA-user: Questions about filling/using large nets/fills.

2010-03-07 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:25:47 -0500, Jim wrote: I was playing around with filling in the blank space with copper and thought it made sense to put part of it at ground potential, however I can't seem to run a connection to a rectangle from a ground pin. How's one go about that? Use the

Re: gEDA-user: Questions about filling/using large nets/fills.

2010-03-07 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 14:06 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: The second question is pretty similar, I have to lay out an audio amp circuit and little tiny wires that work well in digital electronics are much less useful for audio. So I want to have some rather large swaths of copper

Re: gEDA-user: Questions about filling/using large nets/fills.

2010-03-07 Thread DJ Delorie
First, make sure auto-enforce DRC is *disabled* so it will let you connect to something outside your net. Second, draw a trace/line out to that rectangle/polygon. Third, use the j key to join the trace/line to the rectangle/polygon. If you happen to have through-pins in that area, the thermal

Re: gEDA-user: Questions about filling/using large nets/fills.

2010-03-07 Thread Jim
Peter Clifton wrote: On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 14:06 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: The second question is pretty similar, I have to lay out an audio amp circuit and little tiny wires that work well in digital electronics are much less useful for audio. So I want to have some rather large

Re: gEDA-user: Questions about filling/using large nets/fills.

2010-03-07 Thread DJ Delorie
Thank you both. Do you use the line tool to manually route? Yes. What's that ins tool for? It does strange things. It inserts corners into lines or polygons. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org