Parts misaligned with snap/grid

On 8/28/11 10:26 PM, Steve Klett wrote:

I'm new to Eagle and I'm afriad I may have made a mistake that could cause me some serious trouble.  I have a fairly large (960 parts) schematic.  I've been doing a lot of copying as there are tremendous amounts of repetitive sections of the design.  I'm also using a lot of buses and I don't dry my nets until I have completed naming the buses so that the nets will have a meaningful label.  So I've copied hundreds of parts and at some point I changed the snap/grid settings.  This means I have parts on my schematic that were moved using different grid settings.  The problem now is that when I draw a net it won't snap to the pin of the part I'm trying to use, but rather it will draw the net from the nearest grid point near the pin.  I understand why it's happening but I don't know how to solve the problem.

 

Here is a screenshot of the problem:

  Image:misaligned eagle grid.png

 

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I've tried to find a grid setting that will allow it to work but this requires me to make a grid that is TINY.  To make it worse, when the grid is set really small (<  .0625 in) Eagle ceases to display the net id menu when drawing a net to or from a bus.

 

Have I effectively corrupted my file?  Is there a way to "snap all parts to current grid" or some other repair function?

 

If you select the Move tool and Control-click on the origin of the part

you want to move, that will re-snap it to the current grid. You can also

select a group first and Control-right-click to align the whole group.

Andrew.

On 8/28/11 10:26 PM, Steve Klett wrote:

I'm new to Eagle and I'm afriad I may have made a mistake that could cause me some serious trouble.  I have a fairly large (960 parts) schematic.  I've been doing a lot of copying as there are tremendous amounts of repetitive sections of the design.  I'm also using a lot of buses and I don't dry my nets until I have completed naming the buses so that the nets will have a meaningful label.  So I've copied hundreds of parts and at some point I changed the snap/grid settings.  This means I have parts on my schematic that were moved using different grid settings.  The problem now is that when I draw a net it won't snap to the pin of the part I'm trying to use, but rather it will draw the net from the nearest grid point near the pin.  I understand why it's happening but I don't know how to solve the problem.

 

Here is a screenshot of the problem:

  Image:misaligned eagle grid.png

 

>

 

I've tried to find a grid setting that will allow it to work but this requires me to make a grid that is TINY.  To make it worse, when the grid is set really small (<  .0625 in) Eagle ceases to display the net id menu when drawing a net to or from a bus.

 

Have I effectively corrupted my file?  Is there a way to "snap all parts to current grid" or some other repair function?

 

If you select the Move tool and Control-click on the origin of the part

you want to move, that will re-snap it to the current grid. You can also

select a group first and Control-right-click to align the whole group.

Andrew.

I can't seem to make this work.  The part does move a little but the pins of the part still arne't lined up with the grid.  Maybe I need to change the grid to match the specific part's pin spacing?