Hello,
In Pcbnew, when you load the netlist, the components are shown connected with white lines. This has been working fine. However, they appear to be now lost / gone / vanished.
Thus, as the white connection lines are lost, I am unable to add any track to the pins.
See attached screen shot.
Pin 2 should have a thin white line showing its connection to another component, but, now is gone (it was there).
I have re-generated the netlist from Eeschema, and reloaded it in Pcbnew, but still no white lines.
Working with separate netlist files has been deprecated for some 3 to 5 years. The “new” method is to use Eeschema / Tools / Update Pcb from Schematic [F8]
Next:
Those white lines are called “Ratsnest”, and you can toggle it with: Pcbnew / View / Show Ratsnest.
For quick access there is also an icon for it on the left side of the screen:
Hi Paul,
No joy. Ratnests is turned on as I can see other white lines showing connections (see attached screensot). have tried using the ‘‘Eeschema / Tools / Update Pcb from Schematic [F8]’’ but no change seen.
Still missing the white ratnest lines.
if I delete a bit of track, the white ratnest line is shown, so, I know the ratnest view is ON.
In the above pic you can see a white ratnest line. However, there should be a white ratnest line between pin 2 of TR9 to PA4. The network text on pin 2 of TR9 confirms this.
Hi Piotr,
Fixed it now. It didn’t show any errors when I ran the DRC, however, I added a label before and after the pad connection (both labels where called the same), then it worked!
