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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Star connection points in PCB? (intconn)
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 12:44:58 +0100
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gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:

> What solves it is the opposite: a way to explain pcb that two pads are
> connected even if they do not seem to be so, PCB-copper-wise. 

You are right. I kind of misread the original proposal.


> I have
> such a patch in my fork:
> 
> http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/intconn.html
> 
> you can have multiple groups of internal connections and find.c
> considers them as real connections.

Nice. 
I'd like to see this in the main trunk of pcb.

Maybe this patch can even be augmented to include a flag for the star 
connection use case. 

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