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Nets

You can design boards simply by placing footprints, pads and traces, however taking a little extra time to create circuit nets can save countless hours later.

Nets indicate which pads should be connected to each other without specifying the specific path of traces. Net's are like a plan to visit certain cities on a trip without specifying which roads to travel. It is highly recommended to create Nets because nets:

  • save hours of debugging
  • reduce errors
  • help you optimize the board layout
  • simplify routing traces
  • allow use of the Auto Router
  • let you check your board for errors automatically
  • make it far easier to later change your layout

Pad2Pad provides three ways to create and edit nets:

  1. Using the Logical Connections (best if you generally work directly with a PCB layout instead of doing a circuit diagram first).
  2. Manually, using the Edit Nets Dialog.
  3. Via the Import Netlist capability.

Testimonials

I have been trying out different pcb software all day. I finally found yours and I just had to take the time to tell you, Thank You! I am in the early stages of developing some home automation devices and when I was ready to make a test pcb, I was discouraged big time. Also, please thank the programmers for writing such great code.

Frank S

Polls

Pad2Pad should improve

Layout editor - 29.2%
Footprint library - 33.3%
Auto-router - 12.5%
Four-layer capability - 4.2%
Netlist import - 0%
Add circuit editor - 16.7%
Design Rule Check - 4.2%

Total votes: 24
The voting for this poll has ended on: 10 Dec 2012 - 09:57

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