![]() | The netlist file is a text file type that contains the circuit components list and the wiring between them. The file is ready to be used by Circad to make the relative printed circuit board, or to be printed by the user to verify (optionally) the wirings. |
To see the TUTOR1.NET file content, you can open it with Circad, or with any text editor, like Notepad, or click here to see it now.
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During the netlist import, Circad will analyze the track (signal lines) names that wire the components. If a track name is contained in the layer list (in this case GND and VCC), then the track will be automatically placed in the relative layer.
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In the Windows Circad version, the tracks wired inside a plane will be displayed.
So, you don't need tips used in Dos Circad versions. Simply use ![]() |
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Now with ![]() Circad will use the default name TUTOR1.N?? because the pcb could need more than one netlist file, like TUTOR1.N01, TUTOR1.N02, etcetera. This happens when a complex circuit is splitted in many .SCH files, and every file have its netlist. In this case to import in the pcb all the netlist stored in every single .SCH file, it occours to import them one by one, or using the wildcards * or ? as showed above. |
Once you've imported the netlist, the components will be showed at the bottom-left side of the screen, in the same order in which they appears in the netlist file. The white hilighted pin are electrically wired by some other component, instead of the others that are not wired.
If during the netlist import it occours some errors, Circad will show a message in the status line: Consult the .LOG file for error list. It will be not errors, usually they are simple warning messages, like in the TUTOR1.LOG file, created by Circad after the netlist import of TUTOR1.NET. In this case the warning message says that two pins of CONN1 are not wired. Also TUTOR1.LOG is a text file and to see its content you can open it with Circad, with Notepad, or click here to see it now.