[sdiy] Pulsonix PCB design software

[epk]

Ah, that's a great tip! I wish I would have discovered that. I emailed
support and posted in the dt forum about this issue and got no reply :(

Since wires are not anchored to the parts in kicad, you can just hover and
hit m to move the part out of the way and the desired one in. Alternatively
you can hover and hit e to edit the part via popup menu.

epk

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net>
wrote:

>
>
> > On 27 Jul 2017, at 00:08, electronicpresskit <
> electronicpresskit at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > One thing that irked me was that the user can change the part number of
> a multi-part package, however the pin numbers don’t update to reflect the
> change. So the user must delete the part and create a new one. This would
> be less of a problem, except that the wires disappear so you need to
> remember all the connections. I like to optimize which opamp I use
> depending on adjacent components when placing parts on a board so it can
> really add some time and increases the chance of error.
> >
> > There are more, but my head has been out of dt for a while…see my
> comments about zoom and hotkeys below.
>
> If I’m understanding you, you’re taking about re-arranging op-amps to make
> the layout easier, right?
>
> This is something I do frequently too. The “Diptrace way” of doing this is
> to literally disconnect the op-amps and rearrange them, rather than
> changing the part numbers. It’s simple enough. If you want the first op-amp
> in a package doing a certain job, you disconnect the one that’s there
> (right click menu) and drop the other one in instead and then press
> “connect wires” in the right-click menu.
>
> Now, if I was trying to be all annoying about it, that’s one of those
> things that could be described as “user error”, but really it’s just down
> to the different ways and styles that these different packages use, and
> that people start to assume are “standard”. They’re not. There is no
> “standard”. It might be nice if there was, but it’s probably too
> complicated a problem for a single solution to ever make sense.
>
> Tom
>
>
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