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On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Russell Dill wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:13 PM,  <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I start to lose track of all the diverse ideas. This post is an effort to
>> structure the major directions. May it be incomplete, feel free to complete
>> it.
>>
>> In case there is a short...
>
> Lazy path. Find any path that connects the two shorted objects and
> draw that path. The short is somewhere along the path, the user can
> follow that path and quickly locate the short.

Sorry, this would not work. If you mean to follow the path from all net1 
nodes to all net2 nodes, then it would just highlight all objects of both 
nets. If you mean picking one net1 node and net2 node pair randomly, it 
would show only one short, while there may be multiple.

This is a simpler version of the 'heat up the net' idea proposed by Joshua 
Lansford. If you are interested in details you could read back, I've 
modelled what would happen using multiple different examples.

Regards,

Tibor