At 15/10/2003 00:38, Mr. Lomax wrote (among other things):
Mr Potjewijd in a subsequent post noted that Update Free Primitives does
work, but then he added that this was required with every Update from
Schematic. Again, I don't think that is true.
and he is right. I stand (actually, 'm
At 23/04/2003 02:00, Brad Velander wrote on the subject 'strange shaped pads':
Hi Daniel,
yes you can do it with drawn pads from pads, fills, tracks,
polygons. The only caveat is that you will have to run the netlist tool
to update the primitives from the pads. That will get rid of your
Did I mention before that I have 'habd ah dewwubuh cowd' ? It clearly
affected my thinking
Oh well, just found the solution to the problem:
I just need to uncheck the 'lock primitives' checkbox on the antenna
footprint before running the 'update primitives'... And, of
course, re-check
'update free primitives from component pads'
is not titled exactly right
it WILL assign component tracks as well
never knew about the locked behavior you mention,
in fact i sort of doubt it since we run the 'update' often enough here
but maybe it does effect component track updating, not sure
At 07:04 AM 10/14/2003, Leo Potjewijd wrote:
I created the footprint using four layers (the inner two for the loop and
top and bottom for the shield) using tracks, vias, 'virtual shorts' and
pads (three for the loop+CT, one for the shield).
For the information of others who may not know what a
