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gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu schrieb am  9. December 2012:

> However, if we rephase the question from "what causes the short" to
> "what user modification introduced the short", it could highlight
> something that may be useful in more often. Proper implementation
> would be complicated (need to save history of nets), but I see a
> reasonable cheat here: use the undo buffer.

+1. I tend to resolve difficult shorts by simply going back in the
history until update nets does not complain anymore.

Protel99 avoids this by a different approach: This EDA checks after
every edit for shorts. So the user is notified immediately that an edit
causes a violation.

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Kai-Martin Knaak