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by ken.howard
29 Jul 2025, 08:28
Forum: DipTrace PCB Layout
Topic: Exchanging top and bottom layers
Replies: 2
Views: 22609

Re: Exchanging top and bottom layers

I just discovered this - Thank you! Absolute lifesaver!
You don't want to know how many hours I spent trying to do this the hard way!
by ken.howard
14 Jul 2025, 07:41
Forum: DipTrace Schematic Capture
Topic: Resize Hierarchy Blocks
Replies: 12
Views: 66673

Re: Resize Hierarchy Blocks

PLEASE implement this! - it's now 15 years since the original request.
DipTrace say they have been 'planning to implement this feature' for 8 years now, it can't be that hard! - many other EDP packages have this capability.
Ability to use other shapes for a hierarchy block would be great too - but ...
by ken.howard
26 Feb 2025, 07:55
Forum: DipTrace Schematic Capture
Topic: Placing Resistors (or Caps etc) at 45 degrees
Replies: 4
Views: 52827

Re: Placing Resistors (or Caps etc) at 45 degrees

The only way I have found to do it, is to specifically create a 45º component.
I now have RES45-300, RES45-0805, DIO45-DO35 and DIO45-SOD123 in my libraries
It's really about time that DipTrace added this feature - it already exists in the PCB module
by ken.howard
06 Oct 2022, 03:27
Forum: Bug reports
Topic: unusual trace editing behavior
Replies: 3
Views: 6469

Re: unusual trace editing behavior

Possibly related to the above report.
DipTrace 4.3.0.2, PCB Layout, Manual 45º/90º routing selected.

Place a static via close to a pad and route a trace to it like this:

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If I now left click on the trace it gets ...
by ken.howard
04 Apr 2021, 00:25
Forum: DipTrace Schematic Capture
Topic: 45 degree wires in schematic?
Replies: 16
Views: 43664

Re: 45 degree wires in schematic?

I’d like to see this too, I do a lot of design with inductors and transformers, and sometimes you need to show a crossover this way to make it clear what’s actually going on. It would also be nice to be able to rotate components similarly, eg to clearly show topologies like diode bridge -v- diode ring
by ken.howard
04 Apr 2021, 00:16
Forum: DipTrace Schematic Capture
Topic: Component with internal net
Replies: 1
Views: 4276

Component with internal net

I have an unusual requirement for a component with an internal net. It’s a 12-pole rotary switch with 3 identical sections which I can place anywhere on the schematic as (for example) SW1-1, SW1-2 and SW1-3. The rotary contact of each section is actually common and doesn’t come out to a pin, but I ...