How do I display net names on a schematic page?

Am 22.03.2014 02:05, schrieb david jackson:

I have other schematic capture cad programs I have always given custom

net names to all nets and shown most on the schematic.  This helps me

check my work and allows for improved understanding of the routed PCB.

In addition, it allows me to give identical net names to nets that are

not connected visually on the schematic if I so choose.

 

How do I do this in Eagle?  I have searched and not found an answer.

 

I would hope to do something like right click on a wire, then see an

attribute to check like "show net name".  But I do not see that.

 

Thanks . .

 

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Use the LABEL command and click the nets to make the names visible. In

addition you can CHANGE xref = on to get labels (flags) instead of text.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards

Joern Paschedag

Hi David,

You can also use the info tool (the "i" at the top left of the tool panel) it will show info about anything you click on, including the net name.

Doug

Yes you can use info ONCE you have made the net name visible via the LABEL command.

Sadry

In my current version of Eagle (6.5) when you right click on a wire or net, the pop-up menu allows the net name to be displayed,  modified or labeled.

As mentioned by Joern - the label command (available from the right-click menu) allows net names to be continuously displayed.

Doug

Am 22.03.2014 18:23, schrieb Douglas Wong:

In my current version of Eagle (6.5) when you right click on a wire or

net, the pop-up menu allows the net name to be displayed,  modified or

labeled.

As mentioned by Joern - the label command (available from the

right-click menu) allows net names to be continuously displayed.

 

Doug

 

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I might add that the mentioned "right click menue" imho depends on a

setting in the eaglerc.usr file.

(ToggleCtrlForGroupSelectionAndContextMenu)

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Joern Paschedag

On 22/03/14 16:52, ezrcer wrote:

Yes you can use info ONCE you have made the net name visible via the

LABEL command.

 

No, you're wrong. You can use the INFO tool to find the name of a net

regardless of whether it's got a label. Renaming the net doesn't affect

the appearance of the unadorned schematic without a label, but the net

name IS reported by INFO.

I do not think I am wrong

Yes INFO tool does give you the name of the net regardless of it's visibility, so does the NAME tool.  HOWEVER, the original question asked how to display net names.  If the intention is to just query the net name (not actually display it on the net) then INFO or NAME tools both can be use.  If you actually want to display it permanently then LABEL is used.

Thanks for the help.  You can

1) Click the label toolbar or type Label into the command line to get into the label mode then click the net and place the label.

or

2) R Click in info mode and select the Label option and do the same.

Thanks, just did not see it.