topic Re: How to highlight all pads connected to a net before routing? in Fusion Electronics Forum

How to highlight all pads connected to a net before routing?

nathan_langford6LLCW — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:08:27 GMT

I'm trying out Fusion Electronics, coming from KiCad. KiCad has a PCB layout feature where I can hover my mouse over any pad or trace and press the ~ key, and then any pad or traces on that net will be highlighted. The same net will also be highlighted across all pages of the schematic. Does Fusion Electronics have an equivalent feature?

I use this extremely often when routing a board so I can easily see all component pads that need to be routed together. I do this before any traces have been placed so I can place the components optimally.

In Fusion, I see I can use the "Show" tool to click on a trace and that will highlight everything connected to that net, but that feature doesn't seem to work when I click on the pad of a footprint.

Thank you.

Re: How to highlight all pads connected to a net before routing?

panpan_fan — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:42:22 GMT

Hi @nathan_langford6LLCW

I hope you are doing well!

The highligh issue is a known issue and has been reprted to the develop team.

And I will keep you updated when we release the fixing of the issue.

Sorry for all inconvenience.

Regards

Panpan Fan

Re: How to highlight all pads connected to a net before routing?

melisa.kaner — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:01:54 GMT

Thanks @nathan_langford6LLCW ,

Sounds like a really interesting suggestion! Would love to learn more, DM me if you'd like to set up a quick chat.

Best regards,

Melisa (Fusion Electronics product management)

Re: How to highlight all pads connected to a net before routing?

jorge_garcia — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:50:33 GMT

Hello @nathan_langford6LLCW,

It's interesting that show doesn't react to the pad because it will react to a net. Try the following, in the Electronics command line (center top) type SHOW then a space and the name of the net you are interested in. If you press enter then all of the pads and traces on that net will highlight. So it seems like we need a small extension of show command for an initial solution.

With that said, when you activate the route command and start routing all connected pads and nets will highlight with it.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,