You may want to check out the news group that cadsoft maintains. Go
to
http://www.cadsoftusa.com/forum.htm Anything I have not been able to figure out in the manual or help I
have always found in the forum archives.
Not trying to discourage you from asking questions, just letting you
know where I go when I have questions.
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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "joshdewinter"
<joshdewinter@y...> wrote:
> 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