[sdiy] Eagle woes, was: Free CAD

[Ullrich Peter]

Hi!

Moving the parts to see if they are connected works fine and is the last possibility.
The first you should make is the Electrical design rule check.
If you made your parts correctly (so the pins are declared correctly) you get a warning if there 
are unconnected inputs ot two outputs working against each other.

But I have to say that the old connection problem got better the last few version.
I only got it last time when I completely exchanged an IC and replaced it with another on the same place.
Here I had to move it again once to see if all wires have been connected and some of them were not.
After I put the part in place again the connection were OK.

The old problem of unconnected GND connection if there was no little green wire between GND and a part is removed.
Now you can place a GND symbol direct to part pins and you get a proper connection.

Ciao
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Mikko Helin
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 1:26 PM
To: Ingo Debus
Cc: Synth-DIY DIY
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Eagle woes, was: Free CAD

So Ingo and all other experienced Eagle users please tell us how to
make sure the connection on the Eagle schematic drawing is really a
connection and not just looking like it.
One way I've used is to try moving all the parts to see if the
connections follow but there must be other ways around it.

- Mikko

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:50 PM, David G. Dixon
<dixon at interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
> Plus, it is a bit glitchy, as you will think you've made a connection, but
> it might not (for whatever reason) actually connect the trace on the PCB.  I
> wonder how many layout errors on Eagle are user errors, and how many are
> Eagle glitches?
>

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Ingo Debus <igg.debus at t-online.de> wrote:
>
> Am 21.02.2011 um 20:50 schrieb David G. Dixon:
>
>> I don't use any of these myself, but I work with
>> someone who converts my designs to Eagle.  That program makes THE most
>> illegible schematics I've ever seen,
>
> Hmmm.
> Isn't it more the person drawing the schematic being responsible for
> illegibility rather than the program?
> ;-)
>
> Eagle has a nice feature called "smash". You can move the component's names
> and values around. Used with care, it can increase the legibilty a lot.
>
> Ingo
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