I’m new on kicad and I’m working with a led equalizer screen. I have made a schedule which I ran for errors and didn’t get any.
Then I created a netlist with the components I wish to have in my layout but when I’m reading my netlist in pcbnew I get some errors but the program still imports my components to the layout screen.
The problem is that no ratnets are going to my main component (18 pins) and it seems that I cant draw any tracks when there are no ratnets.
This problem is pretty urgent so I would be very pleased if someone you give me some advise!
It might help if you listed some of the errors when PCBNew imported the netlist. (When PCBNew imports a netlist it posts a lot of “Info” and “Action” statements which are NOT errors.)
Be certain you created the netlist from EESchema AFTER you assigned footprints.
this means that the symbol that you used in eeschema for LM3941 has got pins which are numbered ‘~’ instead of ‘1’, ‘2’, etc… and thus can’t be mapped onto the DIP-18 footprint.
Did you do the symbol yourself or is it from the library?
If you zoom in on the DIP-18 housing in pcbnew you will see that the pads are all striken by a dark blue line (very badly visible on black background), this means that no net is connected to them, so you can’t lay tracks to/from these pads.
