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In article <1992Dec15.164130.23896@netnews.louisville.edu> harpe@netnews.louisville.edu (Mike Harpe) writes:
>I have a different question.  Can I get PADS to display circuit traces 
>in relative sizes?  In other words, I want 50 mil traces to be drawn wider
>than 12 mil traces when I display the board.  It plots fine, i'd like to
>see it that way on the screen.
>

Mike In PADS-PCB, select the SETUP menu (F2) and then PARAMS (F4).
The item called REAL WIDTH is the key to what you want (the default is
250 mil). Any trace less than this (or maybe <= ) are displayed as
single lines, greater are displayed to scale.

I usually set REAL-WIDTH to 11 so that 10mil outlines are displayed as
just lines but 12 mil tracks are drawn to scale.


There was another posting about creating boards and parts placement
(maybe from you?).

One option available when placing components manually is to place
_classes_ of components, rather than just all or individually with the
mouse.

Under the PLACE menu, select MOVE and then type c* to place all the
capacitors or r* to place all the resistors ...  I can't remember
where I saw this but it certainly wasn't obvious (at least to me :-)
(I'm assuming here that you've read in a netlist).
Hope this is useful

Cheers
Giovanni

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Giovanni Moretti                                                       ZL2BOI
Computer Science Department, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
G.Moretti@massey.ac.nz      Phone +64-6-356-9099            Fax 64-6-350-5611
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Giovanni Moretti                                                       ZL2BOI
Computer Science Department, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
G.Moretti@massey.ac.nz      Phone +64-6-356-9099            Fax 64-6-350-5611