Hello Ken

I can see you are using VeeCAD intensively and noticing the detaiils.

I considered the color scheme selector to be impractical, especially once I added colored nets into the mix. I forgot to remove it from the help file.

If you click on one pin of a resistor and look at the status bar at bottom left of window, you will see "Pin 1" or "Pin 2". Net Trace highlights the strips and pins that belong to the same net. So each pin must be true to its name and netlist.

While you are dragging a component, or a component is selected, hit spacebar to rotate it 90 degrees - so two taps of spacebar for 180 degrees. If you are dragging or have selected multiple components the spacebar rotates them 180 degrees.

Yes, the component labels do not rotate with the component. When I am dragging parts around in the early stages of a layout, I like to have all labels with the same alignment.

Click the "Text Mode" button in the toolbar to place text wherever you like - for example, to label nets or header pins. Also you have the "Insert Wires Mode" to place points that are to be joined by wires - set the text of these to show "GND", "+5V" etc. if applicable.

Roger