[sdiy] EAGLE beginner question

[ChristianH]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:43:31 +0200 Ingo Debus <igg.debus at t-online.de> wrote:

> As far as I have experienced it, Eagle handles off-grid pins very  
> well. When routing a trace, you just have to click close enough to  
> the destination pin and Eagle does the rest.
> It's essential to have the sound of your computer turned on. When a  
> trace is routed sucessfully, Eagle responds with a plonck sound.  
> (Unfortunately it doesn't do that in the schematics editor.)

I had some more routing fun this weekend. It appears that the grab
loaction happily disregards any grid mismatch (i.e. reliably picks the
nearest unrouted point), but the drop location only snaps to the grid.
This can leave tiny unrouted lines.

So when connecting an off-grid position to an in-grid position, it's
better to grab the off-grid end. 

When connecting two positions that are off the grid, it turned out best
to grab the first position and drop it to a temporary in-grid location,
and then grab the second one and drop it to the temp in-grid end from
the first one. Finally, the temp segments can be cleaned up (and moved
off-grid to taste).


BTW, I never heard any plonck sound. I found a "Beep" option, which IS
turned on. Ingo - are you already using V5.0 (I do), or could there be a
difference to earlier versions?

Christian