Design Spark PCB

[TroubledTech95]

OK, so those of you who know design spark will know there is a translate to PCB option. I'm just new to it so still trying to work it all out. Every time I try to upload my schematic into it i just get all my components jumbled into the size of PCB I've chosen in a layout that is not suitable for routing and almost impossible to comprehend. Am I doing it wrong? surely to have a feature like this would be to make the PCB design/layout part more time efficient? Right now I could most definitely import the individual components and design it manually quicker.

 

[(*steve*)]

I generally start with rubberbands and move stuff around until it looks tidy and like it will route well before I lay down any tracks.

Can you get the software to move it to a PCB layout but not do any of the routing?

 

[Arouse1973]

You need to choose forward design changes option in tools not translate to PCB, use this after you have done the initial translate.
Thanks
Adam

 

[TroubledTech95]

You need to choose forward design changes option in tools not translate to PCB, use this after you have done the initial translate.
Thanks
Adam

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thanks ! sorted!