Copying and Moving Nets to different pins. Not possible to be efficient?

Op Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:55:41 +0100 schreef Joel Davel 

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A few things are slowing down my productivity now that I'm using Eagle.  

I'm thinking someone knows some tricks to the biggest issues here:

 

I frequently change my mind on the pin assignment the nets to optimize 

layout to a CPU, BUT Eagle won't MOVE  connected nets or disconnect nets 

that are connected so that I can move them to a different pin.  I'd use 

COPY, but then they don't connect!  That's also a problem.  I used to 

just copy the net drawing to all the places it went.  It was a breeze.  

Now I have to reenter the net for every component is goes to?  How do I 

get around this?

If I have to redraw the net and re-type the names of all of my nets just 

to change the pin assignments I need to quit my job where they make me 

use Eagle.  It's driving me mad.  Please help save a job or my sanity!

It's as if everything that took one-click in my old ProCAD software 

seems to take 3 in Eagle.  But I'm trying not to be a big whiner, I just 

want to go forward with supported software, so I trust that some scripts 

will get me efficient again.  (I've been doing layout for 15 years and 

have done a couple hundred different board designs, so I'm not a newbie.)

 

Hello Joel,

It could be that I don't understand exactly what you're asking, but isn't 

PINSWAP what you're looking for?

From the HELP:

The PINSWAP command is used to swap pins within the same symbol which have 

been allocated the same swaplevel (> 0). Swaplevel, see PIN command. If a 

board is tied to a schematic via Back Annotation two pads can only be 

swapped if the related pins are swappable.

On a board without a schematic this command permits two pads in the same 

package to be swapped. The Swaplevel is not checked in this case.

Wires attached to the swapped pins are moved with the pins so that short 

circuits may appear. Please perform the DRC and correct possible errors.

HTH,

Richard

Op Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:55:41 +0100 schreef Joel Davel 

<noreply-135898@element14.com>:

A few things are slowing down my productivity now that I'm using Eagle.  

I'm thinking someone knows some tricks to the biggest issues here:

 

I frequently change my mind on the pin assignment the nets to optimize 

layout to a CPU, BUT Eagle won't MOVE  connected nets or disconnect nets 

that are connected so that I can move them to a different pin.  I'd use 

COPY, but then they don't connect!  That's also a problem.  I used to 

just copy the net drawing to all the places it went.  It was a breeze.  

Now I have to reenter the net for every component is goes to?  How do I 

get around this?

If I have to redraw the net and re-type the names of all of my nets just 

to change the pin assignments I need to quit my job where they make me 

use Eagle.  It's driving me mad.  Please help save a job or my sanity!

It's as if everything that took one-click in my old ProCAD software 

seems to take 3 in Eagle.  But I'm trying not to be a big whiner, I just 

want to go forward with supported software, so I trust that some scripts 

will get me efficient again.  (I've been doing layout for 15 years and 

have done a couple hundred different board designs, so I'm not a newbie.)

 

Hello Joel,

It could be that I don't understand exactly what you're asking, but isn't 

PINSWAP what you're looking for?

From the HELP:

The PINSWAP command is used to swap pins within the same symbol which have 

been allocated the same swaplevel (> 0). Swaplevel, see PIN command. If a 

board is tied to a schematic via Back Annotation two pads can only be 

swapped if the related pins are swappable.

On a board without a schematic this command permits two pads in the same 

package to be swapped. The Swaplevel is not checked in this case.

Wires attached to the swapped pins are moved with the pins so that short 

circuits may appear. Please perform the DRC and correct possible errors.

HTH,

Richard