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If you do this, then you're quite right, the board file has to be reloaded.
DIPTRACE MEASURING TOOLK UPDATE
I'm guessing you're doing it the other way, which is to get the schematic package to update the. It helps if you have dual monitors for this. Don't forget you can also enable inter-tool communication, so you can select parts in one package and have them automatically selected in the other too. The net list gets updated, any changed components are either removed or updated in place depending on which option you selected, and you can carry on editing without interruption. File > Import Logic - ensure that 'Import logic type: Design entry CIS (Capture)' is selected - click 'Import Cadence' Once the net list type and folder have been selected once, it's literally three clicks in each tool and you're done. then in the PCB software, with your board file still open. Just: - update schematic - Tools > Create Netlist - select the PCB Editor tab, and set the net list file directory.
DIPTRACE MEASURING TOOLK MOD
I can cut that trace and bypass the cap, then use a mod wire on the bottom of the board.
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Both Cadence and gEDA workflows required a restart of the PCB editor. You know the one thing Eagle actually gets right - if you make a change in the schematic, it immediately updates the PCB. In fact EAGLE has back-annotated the net change I accidentally made on the PCB. I look at the PCB and immediately see it. But I'm trying to bring it up and as soon as my P-FET for the sonar sensor turns the power on, the 5V rail collapses.
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OK, that's bad enough, and with all that I finally finished a board. Why can't EAGLE? If you say "CANNOT SET VIA TO LAYER 16" one more time I will lose it. Oh, and if you draw a trace into a plane, it disappears until you update it manually. Make sure to set the RANK ORDER correctly, and hopefully you don't have more than 6 overlapping polys.
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how the hell do I know? Good luck drawing planes too. If you connect two nets, I get a question asking if I want to name it N$22 or N$32. You have to NAME a NET, but if you copy a block, and try to rename that net, you short the two old nets together - WTF? So how do you do block copying? Just make sure you don't name any nets before, or you'll have to delete them all and try again. Select "MOVE" tool, select "GROUP" tool, highlight group, right click and select "Move: Group", THEN move it. How do I select and move group of objects on a schematic or PCB? Oh. So I'll pass judgement on Altium another time. I haven't tried Altium yet, but I might end up at my next job. Great workflow, although annoying that you have to restart the PCB editor if you want to back-annotate it. I was able to create small and large projects easily in it. However, once I got used to it (which took only about a week) I found it incredibly powerful. I have personal experience of gEDA (decent and easy to use, but lacks features) and Cadence Allegro/OrCAD (at work/internship.) Cadence is very, very powerful and fast, but with a somewhat initially unintuitive interface. I've never used it before - it was a course requirement to submit eagle BRDs instead of gerber files, so. Beginning of a RANT.: I have been using Eagle for the past four weeks working on my university 2nd year project.