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- Subject: Re: Need help with PADS shareware
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.035817.2296@massey.ac.nz>
- Organization: School of Maths. and Info. Sci., Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
- References: <1992Dec12.215154.6390@sequent.com> <BzB1Ap.JB4@wang.com> <1992Dec15.164130.23896@netnews.louisville.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 03:58:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.164130.23896@netnews.louisville.edu> harpe@netnews.louisville.edu (Mike Harpe) writes:
- >I have a different question. Can I get PADS to display circuit traces
- >in relative sizes? In other words, I want 50 mil traces to be drawn wider
- >than 12 mil traces when I display the board. It plots fine, i'd like to
- >see it that way on the screen.
- >
-
- Mike In PADS-PCB, select the SETUP menu (F2) and then PARAMS (F4).
- The item called REAL WIDTH is the key to what you want (the default is
- 250 mil). Any trace less than this (or maybe <= ) are displayed as
- single lines, greater are displayed to scale.
-
- I usually set REAL-WIDTH to 11 so that 10mil outlines are displayed as
- just lines but 12 mil tracks are drawn to scale.
-
-
- There was another posting about creating boards and parts placement
- (maybe from you?).
-
- One option available when placing components manually is to place
- _classes_ of components, rather than just all or individually with the
- mouse.
-
- Under the PLACE menu, select MOVE and then type c* to place all the
- capacitors or r* to place all the resistors ... I can't remember
- where I saw this but it certainly wasn't obvious (at least to me :-)
- (I'm assuming here that you've read in a netlist).
- Hope this is useful
-
- Cheers
- Giovanni
-
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- Giovanni Moretti ZL2BOI
- Computer Science Department, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- G.Moretti@massey.ac.nz Phone +64-6-356-9099 Fax 64-6-350-5611
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- Giovanni Moretti ZL2BOI
- Computer Science Department, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- G.Moretti@massey.ac.nz Phone +64-6-356-9099 Fax 64-6-350-5611
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