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On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:46:56PM +1100, Geoff Swan wrote:
> I'll briefly throw in my 2 cents...
> I think being able to manually assign nets to copper would be really
> useful. I've done this when designing with altium and it works great. If
> this where to become possible I think it would be well used. I also think
> that having tools/heuristics/macros to assist along the way is a great
> idea. As has been said neither heuristics nor net tagging are complete
> solutions in isolation, but both sound like they would be useful to have
> (even if not both can be done).
> 
> My main reason for emailing though is to go back to what I think may have
> started this thread in the first place... is there any chance of getting
> the functionality whereby when I press 'O' to optimise a rats nest, then
> hover over a net and press 'F'  I get everything in that net highlighted?
> (whether routed, partially routed or just connected via a rat) I'm sure I
> used to be able to do this, and it feels like I'm hamstrung without it... I
> note that 'F' will still highlight connected copper, but it no longer
> treats a rat line as connecting disconnected copper...
> It was a fantastic tool... I could use 'F' without the rats nest showing to
> highlight only connected copper, or I could use 'O' -> 'F' to highlight all
> the copper that needed to be connected...

Indeed I miss this too. This was commit 764c3560a722c768a7048f5c70811ec363862882
which you hopefully can revert.

Since around this commit the ratsnest also behave strangely when moving
components. If I remember correctly, they had a proper rubber banding 
behaviour before I updated, and it is no more the case, but this may have
been caused by another patch.

While we are at it, I think that "O" should be rather a "ratsnest on"
option. Processors are fast enough nowadays, and reoptimizing the ratsnest
everytime you draw a line or move component would not be that expensive.
In this case "E" should become a "ratsnest off" command.

	Gabriel