[kicad-users] Re: Simple PCB Only

2009-02-21 Thread Harold King Tarun
Victor, Dave is right unless you want the hard way; build your own netlist file by hand. I suggest that since its a very simple circuit that you're building and you don't want to spend time building the schematic diagram you can jump to PCB directly as Dave said. You won't be using autoroute in sim

Re: [kicad-users] Simple PCB Only

2009-02-21 Thread Dave - WB6DHW
Victor Faria wrote: > All, > Is the a way to just jump into the pcb program and start creating > without the schematic? > what I would like to do do is just go into pcb and start droping in > footprint and conect the pins with a > line/ rat line and then autoroute. > Pcbwizard, diptrace,easypc, a

[kicad-users] Simple PCB Only

2009-02-21 Thread Victor Faria
All, Is the a way to just jump into the pcb program and start creating without the schematic? what I would like to do do is just go into pcb and start droping in footprint and conect the pins with a line/ rat line and then autoroute. Pcbwizard, diptrace,easypc, and others do this I tried to do i

[kicad-users] Re: Freerouter Wont Start

2009-02-21 Thread Dick H.
Robert, now when you do this as described below, please capture the entire text of the output from the Java Virtual Machine: > > C:> cd C:\Program Files\kicad > > > > (i.e. cd to the directory containing the freeroute.jnlp file) > > > > C:> javaws freeroute.jnlp from a command prompt to g

[kicad-users] Re: Freerouting MLFs

2009-02-21 Thread Dick H.
> Hi Alfons, > > Thanks for your reply. I had already tried what you suggested, but the > limitation is kicad, not freerouter, as kicad only exports one class for > tracks ("default"). > Regards, > > Robert. > Robert, I think you may have missed the point of Alfons' post. You can add you

[kicad-users] flat hierarchy, global bus

2009-02-21 Thread Angelo
hello, i have a bus (A0..31) in a root sheet to make available in a second sheet. Actually, for some pins i used global labels. Is it possible to do this with buses, or i have to put 32 global labels, 1 per pin ? greetings Angelo

Re: [kicad-users] Re: Freerouting MLFs

2009-02-21 Thread Robert
Hi Alfons, Thanks for your reply. I had already tried what you suggested, but the limitation is kicad, not freerouter, as kicad only exports one class for tracks ("default"). That means freerouter needs the default-default clearance to be set to 6 thou otherwise it can't connect default tra

Re: [kicad-users] Re: Freerouting MLFs

2009-02-21 Thread Robert
Hi Dick, Thanks. I did take a look in the dsn file but whilst I could figure out most of it I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do (of course), so I'll check out your post when I can. I seem to be getting quite good results using manual fanout. In the latest attempt I just used PCBNew t