'Links/FAQ' Q1. "Change 'Other' to 'Package' and '...' to the name of the footprint for that symbol to use in the layout. You also have the option whether to ...
DIP16 will be the name of the package outline in your PCB or Stripboard layout program parts library. What you are doing is associating the electrical part on...
Hi Steve, You can put in whatever you like, as long as the program that you are using for pcb design knows what it is. If you intend using a DIP package chip...
I can select all pads to all components on the top layer, and all pads not "obscured"; by a top layer component for components on the bottom layer. However,...
Hi William - I'm afraid that you have addressed this request to the wrong group - TinyCAD is a schematic capture program, not a pcb layout program. You didn't...
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Kaz Kylheku
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Aug 25, 2011 5:44 am
Hi all, I've been trying to create my own two part library symbol for a dual op-amp, because the existing ones have pins that are not grid-aligned. I thought I...
I wonder if anyone can give a novice user some help resolving a problem with opening and saving schematics under TinyCAD 2.80.02 Build #462 Production Release?...
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Kaz Kylheku
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Aug 26, 2011 6:40 pm
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Sep 2, 2011 2:33 pm
That's because you can build a symbol in one grid size and place it in another. So when you add the symbol the grid location was in between the sch grid and...
The advice I have given several times is: Always use 'Snap to Grid' and 'Normal' grid when placing pins in symbols. That way the pins are always on grid if you...
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Kaz Kylheku
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Sep 3, 2011 5:29 am
The situation you describe is in fact a problem, but it does not apply to my case at all, as if you had not read my report The library component in question...
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Kaz Kylheku
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Sep 3, 2011 5:29 am
Say I have a small capacitor, with a RAD-197 Package, and I want to replace the symbol with another one. I right click on the part, Replace symbol ... and pick...
I'm sorry to disagree with you about this but I don't find I need any of it (at least over the past 5 years). In the example you give of a through-hole...
I agree with your recommendations, but I also offer the following insight: the replace symbol command was originally intended only for updating the same symbol...
Hi Don, Please see my other reply to this thread as well. In the matter of 'Replace Symbol' I have seldom had need to use it but would not expect to maintain...
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Kaz Kylheku
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Sep 4, 2011 6:14 am
Sure, and I know a guy down the street who writes novels with his 8086 PC. He has not needed more than 640K and a 25 Mb hard disk for 30 years. So you seldom...
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Kaz Kylheku
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Sep 4, 2011 6:14 am
If you flip a polar to a non-polar capacitor, it is very likely that at least two significant parameters will often be the same: voltage rating, and...
The idea behind having a "replace symbol" function is to allow an update of an existing symbol with a new version of the same symbol. It was never conceived...
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Kaz Kylheku
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Sep 4, 2011 6:27 pm
What's the difference between a new version of the same symbol, and a different symbol? Both are different in some way from the original symbol: either in the...
No I don't use it often because I don't need to. My symbols are not off-grid (except when the paste operation fouls up) If I change a symbol it is because the...
Hi Enrico - This question was commented on a few months ago in another discussion in the user's group, so I have added it to the FAQ document today and updated...
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Kaz Kylheku
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Sep 6, 2011 3:23 am
Hi Don, Speaking of which, I did notice this "origin" symbol in the symbol editing UI back when I experienced this alignment problem, and thought that its...
Hi Kaz - We added a manual alignment capability because, after fixing all of the bugs regarding symbol alignment that were fixable, there was still a few ...
I have installed the last version of Tinycad on a PC with a partitioned disk (C: a small partition for system only, E: reserved for swap and F: free for user)....
Hi Varoli - I'm afraid that it is not in the installer, but hardcoded directly from within TinyCAD. It is on the list of things that need to be improved. ...
I'd like to add, that the partitioning scheme used, is probably playing a small part in the lack of functionality as well. Not to mention, having the system,...
... The "wire tool initial segment is axial-only when snap-to-grid is turned off" bug is clearly a bug, though maybe not a show-stopper because it's...
