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I have done this manually one after one.

Subject is solved for me.

Hello, I use sPLAN 8.0 and I have dowloaded a lot of additional symbols. Some of them are in the ".LIB" format, so it is easy to add them to the Librairies folder, in order to have a good organization from the sPlan interface. But some of them are provided as ".spl" format that we can display from s...

Problem solved by creating exclusion areas on the Ground plane: this progressively drives you to the problem...

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Hello, I have been using SL for years, but for the first time I face a problem that I can't solve: I have a short circuit (+5V and GND are linked together) and I do not manage to find in which location the problem is ! Do you have a tip, or a recommended approach to identify where I have made a mist...

Thank you very much Hal90009: this is exactly what I was looking for !

Hi,

I know that it is possible but I don't remind how...

I would like to remove just a part of the ground plane, or define an area in which there is no ground plane : look at the attached photo.

How can I achieve that ?

Thank you veyr much,

I have found a solution: you just have to install the Sprint Layout plugin named "Sprintfoot" that allows to import any footprint from Kicad.

This plugin is a "must have" plugin, giving access to the huge library of footprints from Kicad !

@cdhigh:

I will test the advanced features later, but for the time being I have just imported a few SMD footprints from Kicad, and your plugin is excellent !!
A must-have plugin: congratulations !!

Hi, I am looking for the following footprint: 72 pins, 10x10mm, LFCSP package, maybe its normalized name is "CP-72-6", as described in the attached screen capture: footprint LFCSP CP-72-6.JPG It is the footprint of an analog Device DSP named: adau 1466. Does any of you have this footprint ? Thank yo...

I work very often with SL6, and I suggest you the following "very easy to develop" features: 1-.I would like a feature to copy in the Clipboard (so we can paste it in a text area of a board) the complete path+filename of a board: this would allow to easily located where the .lay6 file is located sim...

Thank you very much for this information, The files were generated by the designer using KICAD and I have downloaded the Gerber files, in order to import it in SL6 because I have a small modification to perform. Although I have installed Kicad to see the PCB, the "display Gerber Utility" in Kicad do...

Hi, I would like to import a Gerber file into Sprint Layout 6. Once unzipped, the Gerber file contains various files, with the following extensions: .gbl .gbs .gbo .gm1 .gtl .gts .gtp .gto .gtr and 2 files with a .drl extension : I had never seen 2 DRL files, but maybe it can exist. The question is ...

OK: meantime I have found the footprint ,
Thank you very much,

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Nobody has TSSOP ready to use Makros ?

Hello,

I am looking for the TSSOP-28 makro (for a Crystal CS8416 integrated circuit), but more generally a collection of TSSOP footprints would be appreciated !

I am sure that other persons before me have already done these footprints..

Do you know where I could find them ?

Thanks you very much

Thank you very much for this lesson , In your layout file, you forgot to turn on groundplane for C2 (to turn it on, select layer C2 and klick on the groundplane button in the lower menu bar [next to "?"]). True: here is the file with a ground plane both on C1 and C2: Sonny2.JPG but it looks less rea...

Thank you so much Sonny, you are a Professor for me ! Tracks shielding is not important for this small PCB, but it will be of the highest importance for my next project, so your explanations are a golden tips ! Although I globally understand what you explain, there are unclear things for me: U1: you...

Hi Sonny1983, I have watched your excellent video, and it allowed me to improve my PCBs. Here is my final version: Capture2.JPG I believe it should work. I have implemented the ground plane on the C2 layer (because a "commercial" clone of what I plan to design uses the C2 layer as a ground plane), a...

Thank you very much Sonny1983 for this video: it is a bit late tonight but I will watch it tomorrow ! it will be a big help for me and a lot of people. Meantime I have learned a lot of things regarding the ground plane and I have achieved what I consider to be the final version of my PCB: I will pos...

SL 6.0 is an excellent program that I have been using for years: I have not found a better and simpler one. Maybe it is time to open a dedicated thread to the desired features, that everybody could extend... A numbering system could help to identify them for further discussions... Here are a few (mi...