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Problem drawing rectangle in Libedit when creating a new part.
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richard
OK, first off I am very new to using KiCad, so a bit of patience would be appreciated as I wander through the newbie stage of my experience.
I am trying to add a part to a library I have started for an item I buy from a third party and have been following the tutorial that comes with KiCad as part of that process. I get into the new part state easily enough and have added 3 pins for my component, but when I go to draw a rectangle for the item I'm having a problem. After selecting the 'draw rectangle' icon in the left tool panel I can draw the rectangle, but cannot get it to stick. If I move the mouse at all after completing the shape the program is acting like it is a selector to move the pins and labels around, even though the pins go outside of the rectangle, and will not stop doing that until I right click and select End Tool or hit escape - after which the rectangle disappears. Obviously I am missing something simple, so any assistance much appreciated at this point. Thanks, R. Mycroft |
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Andy Eskelson
It's just a slightly different drawing method...
select the rectangle tool click ONCE (do not press and hole) at the first point. move mouse (no buttons pressed) to where you want the end point to be, then click again. Andy On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:33:40 -0000 "richard" <rmycroft2000@...> wrote: OK, first off I am very new to using KiCad, so a bit of patience would be appreciated as I wander through the newbie stage of my experience. |
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richard mycroft
Brilliant.? Thanks very much. ? Thanks, Rich From: Andy Eskelson To: kicad-users@... Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 7:24 AM Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Problem drawing rectangle in Libedit when creating a new part.
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It's just a slightly different drawing method... select the rectangle tool click ONCE (do not press and hole) at the first point. move mouse (no buttons pressed) to where you want the end point to be, then click again. Andy On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:33:40 -0000 "richard" <rmycroft2000@...> wrote: > OK, first off I am very new to using KiCad, so a bit of patience would be appreciated as I wander through the newbie stage of my experience. > > I am trying to add a part to a library I have started for an item I buy from a third party and have been following the tutorial that comes with KiCad as part of that process. I get into the new part state easily enough and have added 3 pins for my component, but when I go to draw a rectangle for the item I'm having a problem. After selecting the 'draw rectangle' icon in the left tool panel I can draw the rectangle, but cannot get it to stick. If I move the mouse at all after completing the shape the program is acting like it is a selector to move the pins and labels around, even though the pins go outside of the rectangle, and will not stop doing that until I right click and select End Tool or hit escape - after which the rectangle disappears. Obviously I am missing something simple, so any assistance much appreciated at this point. > > Thanks, > R. Mycroft > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links > > > |
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