Just downloaded the V5.1.0 and the button for ‘Unconnected Tracks’ in the DRC is missing!!! Has it gone somewhere else. Running the DRC does NOT report on unconnected tracks, so it is not built in there. M
From 5.1.2 (True 5.1.0 should look like this as well. Is it possible you run a development snapshot?)
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Arrr, now I see it. List Unconnected button has completely gone (but is in your screenshot) and there is a new tab higher up, Unconnected Items - that works and looks good.
Probably need to remove my question completely!
Love 5.1, subtle clanges but good…
Many thanks, M
Is there a reason you need to run List Unconnected separately from a full DRC? (Because the button is gone in 6.0, which adds a 3rd tab for footprint warnings, and a separate button for that as well didn’t seem scalable.)
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In v4 one needed to press that button for getting a list of unconnected things. My guess is that the reporter was simply confused why it is now missing.
What i find strange is that the button is there for me but not for them. I know i run 5.1.2. And @Michael also claims to run 5.1.2
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In previous versions it was never clear to me whether:
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“List Unconnected” was a subset of the full DRC. You might run this option because you were specifically looking for nets that had not yet been totally routed, and you didn’t want to wade through a pile of other DRC squawks just to find the remaining connectivity faults.
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“List Unconnected” was completely independent of the general DRC check. To get a complete report about your board’s status, you had to click BOTH “Start DRC”, and “List Unconnected”.
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Clicking on “List Unconnected” was nothing more than a redundant way to switch focus to the “Unconnected” list box, rather than the “Problems/Markers” list box.
Dale
And/or nets with single dot tracks with a Net assigned to them.
List Unconnected is part of the full DRC. And it dumps its results into a separate tab, so there’s no issue with wading through the “other” stuff.
I agree that the user model behind it is confusing, which is one of the reasons I removed the separate control for it. (The other being the afore-mentioned scalability issue as we add more tabs to the DRC output.)
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Here’s a screen-shot of the 6.0 dialog: (Edit by admin: V6 does not yet exist. This is a development snapshot. It will be quite some time from now till this will be in a stable release.)
Many thanks all. Yes it was me being unfamiliar with the new version, and not noting the new tabs! Much appreciation, and this is a great product!
M
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