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Thanks a lot Robert. So thhhhaaaats what that Net class menu is
for!
I don't mean to flood the group with questions specific to a layout
program, but everyone here is so good. I hope more people can
bebefit from these. Maybe I'll make a little mini-tutorial as an
alternative for newbies like myself who find software manuals to be
kryptonite once I get everything figured out.

I've got another one. I just dug a hole I can't figure out how to
get out of...I noticed something in my circuit I wanted to change,
yet I was already routing, so I stopped the autorouter in mid-route.
I then removed a component from my schematic. After that, I noticed
the router was still half-done, so I went back to the board and told
it to "End Job". When I did, it somehow magically replaced the
component I had just removed, restoring the board to the way it was
when routing had started, but here's the bad thing...the component
was still missing from the schematic. I then promptly got the error
message that the schematic and boards didn't match, that no
forward/backward annotation would be allowed, and that my first born
children would be found and executed. Okay not really...just the
first parts.
I noticed though that the part it replaced wasn't wired up (when I
say "wired up", I mean it didn't have the straight little yellow
unrouted lines between it and the other components it should be
connected to). When I went to the schematic and replaced the part,
then went back to the board, it still wasn't wired. So, I deleted
the component from the board and the schematic. I then replaced the
component with a brand new one on the schematic, BUT, and here's the
bug butt, it nor any others will show up on the board now. (It was
serious about the forward/backward annotation thing). How do you
restore that function once you've gotten it out of sync?

Thanks a million again

Josh DeWinter
Pullman, WA