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Methods of Viewing Nets

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I have been using Eagle for a few months now after previously using Pads and the biggest drawback seems to be the inability to color code the nets.  This makes intelligent component placement and the drawing of pour areas a lot more tedious than those operations need to be.  I did read the tip about using the RATSNEST command to hide/show certain nets and that helps somewhat prior to routing.   But for drawing the pour areas which I normally do after routing, I have resorted to sticking pieces of tape to the computer screen while the SHOW command highlights the net of interest to mark the boundaries of where I want to draw the pour.  Or course once I begin drawing the pour the highlighted net disappears but the little pieces of tape remain and I can draw the pour using the pieces of tape as a guide.  I would just like to know if there is a more sensible way to do this in Eagle.

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    Why not simply fix Eagle so the Show command works as needed? Clicking on

    anything after "showing" makes it go away, severely limiting its use. May

    be use a shift-click to "lock" it.

    Also, there should be an option to have a highlighter (as though you took a

    highlighter to a schematic or board layout)--when you are zoomed out (such

    as trying to view a net in a large schematic), it is hard to see the very

    thin lines even when they are colored/shown.

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  • 0 in reply to e14candies

    I agree, this is something that needs fixing in EAGLE. It's been raised several times before (including by myself) and from what I can gather it is at least on Cadsoft's radar so hopefully this will end up resolved in some future version.....

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    On 7/9/2016 4:21 PM, rachaelp wrote:

    I agree, this is something that needs fixing in EAGLE. It's been raised several times before (including by myself) and from what I can gather it is at least on Cadsoft's radar so hopefully this will end up resolved in some future version.....

     

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    Hi All,

     

    Persistent show is on the radar and I think that one is probably

    relatively easy to implement(I'm not a developer, so don't quote me on

    that).

     

    Now the different colors for different nets or netclasses thing is more

    difficult because currently in EAGLE colors are only dictated by layers

    so the I think adding something like that would require some more

    fundamental changes in EAGLE.

     

    I think we can distill that request to needing some way to separate and

    organize nets(netclasses) visually.Maybe there is a way other than color

    to do this? Just a thought.

     

    Best Regards,

    Jorge Garcia

     

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  • 0 in reply to rachaelp

    On 7/9/2016 4:21 PM, rachaelp wrote:

    I agree, this is something that needs fixing in EAGLE. It's been raised several times before (including by myself) and from what I can gather it is at least on Cadsoft's radar so hopefully this will end up resolved in some future version.....

     

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    Hi All,

     

    Persistent show is on the radar and I think that one is probably

    relatively easy to implement(I'm not a developer, so don't quote me on

    that).

     

    Now the different colors for different nets or netclasses thing is more

    difficult because currently in EAGLE colors are only dictated by layers

    so the I think adding something like that would require some more

    fundamental changes in EAGLE.

     

    I think we can distill that request to needing some way to separate and

    organize nets(netclasses) visually.Maybe there is a way other than color

    to do this? Just a thought.

     

    Best Regards,

    Jorge Garcia

     

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    Jorge Garcia wrote:

     

    Now the different colors for different nets or netclasses thing is more

    difficult because currently in EAGLE colors are only dictated by layers

    so the I think adding something like that would require some more

    fundamental changes in EAGLE.

    Most ECAD tools I have used assign colour initially using layers. This can then be overridden for individual nets or using net class properties. I can't see a clean way of doing this without colour and it's a really useful feature.

     

    I agree the persistent highlight is higher priority, this isn't too far down the list for me though :-)

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Rachael