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[franzSBK]

Hello to every one.

I'm not speak english very well so if I make some mistake I apologize to you in advance.

I use Altium designer 9.4 and I've encountered a problem in the PCB Designer side.

After end the schematic and updated the PCB document... I find in the PCB designer the right parts but without the connection line are visible.

- Well, for few connection is not really a probelm, but with a lot of connection is impossible to understand the righ path connections.
- Interesting thing is that if you start the Auto routing all nets are routed well.

At this point I think that is a Display error or bad setting of Preferences.

Could anyone help me please?

P.S. If I can't resolve this the only idea is to Re-Instal the software again to obtain the initial behaviour of the program.

Many thank in advance to anyone

[leon_heller]

Why not try Altium support?

[waltr]

Why not try Altium support?

That is also my suggestion. Their support is very good.

[franzSBK]

Thanks guys for the quick replies
But I can't follow that way for an immaginable idea...
So, for a quick solution (but not shure) I could try to re-Install the software again.

When I'll do it I'll report you the result.

bye,
Mauro.

[franzSBK]

GOOD NEWS guys

I've reinstal it and all works fine.
This is a strange thing but I'm very happy because without connection lines it's frustrating!

So I consider this topic closed.

[asimlink]

Hi,
To solve the trouble associated with "unable to see nets in pcb" you don't need to re-install Altium. Please follow these simple steps to view nets:

1. open PCB
2. press these keys in the mentioned order "N" , "S", "A" to enable all nets
alternate method is to go to View > Connections > Show All
if this does not work then do the following step:
3. press "L" to view "Board Layers & Colors" Menu, and check the box with an option :
[x] Default Color for New Nets
alternate method to view this menu is go to: Design > Board Layers & colors. and check the box with an option :
[x] Default Color for New Nets

Regards,

Asim

[mpcohensch]

Hello guys,

I have been experiencing this issue today and I tried almost all solutions on the web for making the rats nest to be visible again and nothing worked. After a couple of hours of struggling I solved my problem. I solved it by doing the following steps:

1) Go to the bottom-right horizontal menu and click on "PCB". (The location of this button may be different depending on your Altium's version).
2) On the pop-up menu select "PCB". You can also do the same on the top menu bar by clicking on "View" -> "Workspace panels" -> "PCB" -> "PCB".
3) In the left hand menu pane (now shows as title "PCB"), check if "From-To-Editor" is selected and change it to "Nets".
4) This should solve the problem if none of other tips worked for you I'm using Altium Designer 16.1.7.

Have a nice day.

Live long and prosper.

Patricio