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How to clamp / snap track ends to component pads?

mflux_gamble
mflux_gamble over 8 years ago

I'm working on laying out my first board and have been able to get some of the nice interactive routing features like pushing of other tracks, prefered via diameters, and so on to work.  Its pretty great compared to eagle.  One thing that i must just be missing about how to do it is getting the track ends to snap to a component pad.

 

for example:

I have this:

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I can pickup a track and shove another track around - which is a really great feature for routing

 

image

 

however, if I pickup a component:

 

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other components won't get shoved around, and i lose my connection of the track to the pad - such as on netc22_2 to C22 as shown above.

 

I have most of my components locked in place on the board, such as that QFN you see on the left.  but it'd be nice to be able to move that QFN for example and have the interactive push and hug routing take care of some of the damage done by moving larger package like that one.

 

The track ends should snap to the component pad.... i've tried clicking dead center on the pad.  I have also tried the Ctrl+Left Click to 'auto route' the rest of the trace.  It will route the trace to the appropriate pad - but it won't glue itself there - i.e. if i move the component, even auto made track ends arent sticking with the component's pads.

 

help!

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  • harvie256
    0 harvie256 over 8 years ago

    The tracks not staying glued to the component is because the default behaviour when you select and shift a single component is to "Move" as apposed to "Drag".  You can select the drag tool from the Move menu.  However, it's not going to do what you're after, as it just keeps the last segment of the track connected and stretches it out.  Personally I find it pretty useless.

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