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From: "Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 11:57:58 -0800
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB connect pad to plane
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On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 6:40 AM Chad Parker (parker DOT charles AT gmail DOT com)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
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> If you set the clearance of a pad to zero inside a polygon, you should get a "Pad with insufficient clearance inside polygon" error, not a "copper areas too close error". If you're getting the latter, that's a bug and we should fix it. Are you building from source? Have you run the tests? The DRC now has a pretty comprehensive set of test cases, and I would expect this to be flagged. A quick test with 4.2.0 on Win10 flags this correctly.

It's the insufficient clearance one

> It should, however, throw an error. It is technically breaking a design rule, even if you're doing it intentionally. The consequences of making such a connection unintentionally is quite high, and so it's safer, IMO, to throw the error and have you verify that the connection is intentional.

thinking about the overall issue for more than half second I agree.
It happens to work out well for ground plane and ground pads but there
are other cases.  This is sort of another issue that comes up because
DRC and connection are sort of unaware of each other I guess.

> Yes... we need more flexibility here. I'm aware. Also, SM pad thermals are high on my priority list, the availability of which I would expect to make this a non-issue.

Wouldn't this have the same problem that if you move the element onto
a non-ground poly it will short?

Britton