Dual gang pot Easy EDA

[neiltheseal]

Hello again.

Sorry to spam you with all of these EasyEDA questions.

I'm trying to build something in EasyEDA with a dual gang pot and have run into a problem. How do I use a dual pot in Eas EDA?

When I create a PCB I get 2 pots which the program won't let me overlap. Can anyone tell me what am I doing wrong?




On the schematic my dual pot looks like this.



It's this specific file.

 

[ThePanda]

Are you trying to physically put one pot next to another on the layout and have them share pin 1?

B50K is backward.

 

[neiltheseal]

Are you trying to physically put one pot next to another on the layout and have them share pin 1?

B50K is backward.

Not really. As far as I know they should be the same potentiometer but there are 2 footprints.

BK20 is backward because it is on the back of the PCB. I just want to connect both gangs of the one pot.

 

[ThePanda]

I see now. For some reason that footprint you picked is weird.

I use Kicad, but when you picked the component for your schematic, did you pick individual pots or a dual-gang?

 

[neiltheseal]

I see now. For some reason that footprint you picked is weird.

I use Kicad, but when you picked the component for your schematic, did you pick individual pots or a dual-gang?

I think I picked dual gang. Based on what it looks like. But I agree it looks weird and maybe I'm wrong.

 

[jwin615]

Did it somehow break apart the footprint of the 2 gangs?
Don't the .1 and .2 denote the separate schematic elements, but you should place the parent potDual for layout?
So children on schematic and parent on layout. Sorry, it's been a couple of years since I messed with easy eda but that's kinda what it looks like.

 

[neiltheseal]

Did it somehow break apart the footprint of the 2 gangs?
Don't the .1 and .2 denote the separate schematic elements, but you should place the parent potDual for layout?
So children on schematic and parent on layout. Sorry, it's been a couple of years since I messed with easy eda but that's kinda what it looks like.

Thanks. This was it. Didn't realise you had to use the parent layout. I had used the children. It seems to work now.

 

[jwin615]

Noice.

 

[neiltheseal]

Actually the issue was with how I named the components. When i used the default names that came with each side of the pot it worked fine. Noticed I had the same issue with a 4558.