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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Screw plint symbol, two pin one net? Also have symbols for gedasymbol
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Nicklas:
> Then drawing a schematics for electronic cabinet I encountered an
> interesting problem with a simple screw plint. It typically have
> two pins or more if several are connected.

(I guess you mean feed-through terminal blocks like [1].)

I usually just do a small square with a dot (the connection point) in 
the middle. You can do that in lepton/gschem with a zero length pin.

To do a row of them ("plintrad"), just stack them together horizontally.

> I could make a symbol with only one connection  or draw the line straight
> thru but I would prefer one connection point at each just as it look.

If you want the looks, use a mecanical cad program.

From what I understand, lepton/gschem doesn't support your idea.
A symbol with two pins with separate nets connected to separate pins
will get separate netnames in the netlister even if you name the
pins the same in the symbol.

> Do anybody have any good idea to make a symbol with two pins there pins
> belong to same net?
...

Code a postprocessor for your use case or drop the idea.

///

In a cabinet, you number each piece of cable, so if you have a terminal
block, the things you connect are distinct things, not a common path of
copper as in a pcb.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

[1] https://www.weidmueller.com/int/products/connectivity/terminal_blocks/feed_through_terminal_blocks.jsp