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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Netnames on all connected segments
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On Sep 12, 2015, at 1:31 AM, Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

>>> Would it be hard ta add the netname all connected segments then it is added or changed?
>>> 
>> 
>> How would you undo a short circuit (an especially likely event with magnetic net mode enabled)?
> 
> Actually I have no idea. What I want is all segments of the net have the netname attribute set and to the same value. Then looking into the save *.sch the netname attribute is assigned to one of the lines.
> 
> Do gschem know about nets?

A little knowledge of nets has crept into gschem in recent years, and that has caused some troubles See, for example, https://bugs.launchpad.net/geda/+bug/1014160.

> Or only draw nice junctions and let gnetlist generate the netlist?
> 

Mostly yes. Gnetlist slows down a lot on big designs because it uses an inefficient algorithm to search for junctions.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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