I _SO_ agree with you!
I suggested different color settings for the "rubber bands" of signals to
the developers of my PCB software, they even called me back, but wouldn't
quite see the value in the function as much as i would have liked.
Orcad has this option, and it is dead useful to color ground and VCCs
differently.
A good placement means half the work, probably more, so this feature
really helps. Of course you can select and highlight a net in most any
software, but having them on special colors permanently beats that by a
lot.
ST
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:03:14 +0100, kilocycles <
kilocycles@...>
wrote:
> I did autorouting almost exclusively when I first started with Eagle.
>
> The rat's nest simply looked impossible. One thing I use a lot while
>
> routing, either auto or manual, is "show ground"...click eye icon and
>
> type gnd in the command line text box. That helps in that I know
>
> which end of the component to focus on; i.e., the signal end, and
>
> whether or not I need to reorient it. The triangular
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> emitter-base-collector transistors drive me batty, trying not to have
>
> to run a signal through the triangle. The pad clearances are pretty
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> close as it is on a TO-92. Also, I'll use the "i" info icon to show
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> what signal I'm dealing with, and check the schematic.