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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] making DRC less misleading in the presence of shorts,
	non-routed rats, etc.
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Am 03.10.2015 um 01:21 schrieb Britton Kerin:

> At the moment DRC catches near-shorts (trace too close to another), but is
> completely silent when there's an actual short.

That's expected, that's what DRC does. Checking for shorts means to
compare the netlist with connections actually made and that's what
"optimize rats" does. It's certainly a good idea to let a DRC check also
run a "optimize rats" and to include the misalignments found into the
DRC window.


Markus

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