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Ampdoctor

United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Oct 2019 :  16:17:49  Show Profile  Visit Ampdoctor's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Hi Folks
I have a project where the connection lines have mostly disappeared.

On other projects deleting a track will cause the connection line to appear and show the connection between the previously connected points.

Is it possible that I can have done something to turn this off on this particular project?

Clicking 'optimise all nets' icon usually remakes all the connection lines, but not in this project.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Gordon

edrees

United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Oct 2019 :  16:27:39  Show Profile  Visit edrees's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Depending on your Settings=> Preferences =>PCB Interaction, deleting a track CAN also delete the net. If the net has been deleted then no "connection" line will exist. Try using BACKSPACE instead of Delete?
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Peter Johnson

United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Oct 2019 :  16:36:14  Show Profile  Visit Peter Johnson's Homepage  Reply with Quote
edrees is right in so far as it goes. He's referring to the setting on the 'PCB Interaction' tab under [Settings], [Preferences] for 'Delete Track Does Unroute'. If it's unchecked, the whole track is removed.

However, there's another simple explanation which also needs checking. Look on the 'Nets' tab under design technology. There's a 'Show Connections' column. right click on any 'Yes' entry and use [Apply To Column] to force all the connections to be visible. It may be simply that they were hidden.
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Ampdoctor

United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Oct 2019 :  17:53:46  Show Profile  Visit Ampdoctor's Homepage  Reply with Quote
It was this:

However, there's another simple explanation which also needs checking. Look on the 'Nets' tab under design technology. There's a 'Show Connections' column. right click on any 'Yes' entry and use [Apply To Column] to force all the connections to be visible. It may be simply that they were hidden.

Somehow they'd all been switched to no.

All sorted now, thank you!
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Peter Johnson

United Kingdom
488 Posts

Posted - 04 Oct 2019 :  09:28:04  Show Profile  Visit Peter Johnson's Homepage  Reply with Quote
There are two likely ways that this could have happened. Under [View], [Net Connections] there's an option to hide them all. Alternatively, on the 'Settings and Highlights' tab under [View], [Display], 'Connections' may simply have been unchecked by mistake.
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