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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:52:30 -0600
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Star connection points in PCB? (intconn)
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On 02/18/2015 05:44 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
>> 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.

Doesn't it handle that as is?  At least until you start thinking of a GUI
to "dive down" edit a component in place...

A star connector would be one with all its pins defined as one intconn group.