I'm new as well to Eagle, I tried what you suggest and got the same result.
However, I'm not certain why you don't just move the chip.  The lines at the
termination end stay connect to the chip pins as it moves.

I wished everything worked the way I wanted it to, but I think Eagle is a
product that could certainly be improved, however when I consider the
alternatives.  Free, autorouter, linked schematic, extensive libraries. The
pluses make it worth learning the idiosyncrasies.

Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: James Newton <eplus1@SAN.RR.COM>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 9:10 PM
Subject: [OT] Eagle: Net from Bus to Pin stays connected on brd but not on
sch?


> Ok, I'm new (sort of) to this program (Eagle from
> http://www.cadsoftusa.com )
> so please excuse this if it's a stupid question, but...
>
> I draw a bus that passes by two chips and then name it BUS[0..7] to get 8
> signals (not intuitive, why not pop up a quick dialog to ask you how many
> signals when you finish a bus?)
>
> I select Net and click on the end (or middle) of the bus, select BUS0, and
> then double click on the very tip of the pin on the chip. I repeat this
for
> the corresponding pin on the other chip. In the brd window, I see the
"rats
> nest" line appear.
>
> Now, I select Move, pick up the bus, pull it two clicks to the side and
set
> it down. The nets no longer touch the bus in the sch. On the brd, the rats
> nest line is still there. Redraw, save and reopen, etc.. still the same.
> Tried putting a Junction on it.
>
> Is this really how this program is supposed to work? You have to move
every
> net with the bus? Why is it that I can move the chip and the nets follow?
>
> This is the third time I've tried to figure out what it is about this
> program that so many people like. The first two times I just gave up. The
> first time, it was after realizing that you turn things by right clicking
> while moving (which was NOT documented anywhere in that version of the
> program) and the next time I made it to the point of Copy puts nothing on
> the clipboard and Cut doesn't remove the item from the design... If it
> wasn't for
> http://paul.spu.edu/~bolding/ee4211/EagleTutorial/EagleTutorial.html
> I wouldn't have gotten this far this time.
>
> I keep coming back because if so many people like it, it must just be
me...
>
> James Newton
> jamesnewton@geocities.com