I had notived the direction of the pins before and I made sure that
they were all the right way round. It seemed to be more of a grid
setting or other. They just wouldn't line up with other components
when I placed the part. I have now got rid of the part and used a
standard Optocoupler from the libray and everything is AOK.

I am using this wonder program in conjunction with VCad Stripboard
Layout, which I find is truely amazing (for its size). I gave up on
trying to create PCB's after my Laser Printer went the way of the
Dinasours, so I reverted back to Stripbord, which I do prefer.

I only been using them both for about a week solid, and I have almost
complete my circuit boards for my Computer Controlled Telescope Drive
which is based on Mel Bartell's system, which can be found here
http://www.bbastrodesigns.com/cot/cot.html (incase anybody was
interested in it also).

Keep up the good work Matt.

Andy


--- In tinycad@..., Antony Kidd <adjkidd@t...> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> When I started out I had trouble getting the wires to stick to my
pins,
> it turned out that my pins were the wrong way round on my parts.
The pin
> name wasn't shown, just the number, and the end of the pin that is
> supposed to connect to the wire was at the wrong side. Easy mistake
to
> make, if in doubt I now check my parts my making the name visible
and
> typing in the name field to see which end is which.
>
> Again let me thank Matt for his great work, at home I use it with
> FreePCB - an excellent match.
>
> All the best.
> Tony
>
> Tony Kidd
>
> andrwpodm wrote:
>
> >Hi Matt
> >
> >Thanks for your quick reply, but I have managed to sort it out
> >myself. It seems that the symbol I created for a 4N26 Optocoupler
> >kept screwing up my designs for some reason, although I couldn't
see
> >why. The wires just wouldn't stay connected, but if I moved the
> >symbol around, the wires would stay connected and stretch with it.
So
> >I just used the symbol in the Discrete Library, and slightly
modified
> >it, by getting rid of pin 6.
> >
> >I am using version 2.50.10 and Windows 98.
> >
> >I have also found, that if I do too many actions quickly, ie
Deleting
> >items, then TinyCad will come up with a fatal error and close. Any
> >ideas on that one??
> >
> >All I can say, is thank you very much for the Backup Design option
> >you included in TinyCad. A very usefull tool indeed.
> >
> >Keep up the excellent work, Matt. I too have tried other ECAD
> >software and I haven't found one as good and easy to use as this
one.
> >
> >Andy
> >
> >--- In tinycad@..., "Matt Pyne" <matt.pyne@c...>
wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Andy,
> >>
> >>Can you email the problem file directly? Also what version of
> >>
> >>
> >TinyCAD
> >
> >
> >>are you using?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Matt.
> >>
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: tinycad@...
[mailto:tinycad@...]
> >>
> >>
> >On
> >
> >
> >>Behalf Of andrwpodm
> >>Sent: 14 June 2005 13:38
> >>To: tinycad@...
> >>Subject: [tinycad] Unconnected Pins
> >>
> >>Hi Everyone
> >>
> >>I am running the lastest version of TinyCad on a Win98 machine.
> >>
> >>I have jsut drawn half of my schematic and I did a DRC to check
> >>everything was OK. It said that a few pins were not connected even
> >>though they were, so I decided to redo them and ran the DRC
> >>
> >>
> >afterwards.
> >
> >
> >>It passed, so I saved it and then closed it, whilst I did
something
> >>else.
> >>
> >>When I reopened the same design, and did another DRC on it, it
says
> >>
> >>
> >the
> >
> >
> >>virtually all of my pins are not connected to anything. Can
somebody
> >>tell me if they have had, or are having this problem, and what I
> >>
> >>
> >can do
> >
> >
> >>to cure it, because I don't want to keep having to rewire my
> >>
> >>
> >circuits
> >
> >
> >>all the time.
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>Andy
> >>
> >>PS. So far, I think this little ECAD program is great.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Yahoo! Groups Links
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >