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Subject: [geda-user] making DRC less misleading in the presence of shorts, non-routed
 rats, etc.
From: "Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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At the moment DRC catches near-shorts (trace too close to another), but is
completely silent when there's an actual short.

Same thing for not-routed rats sort of: a marginal connection is reported,
a completely missing one is not.

I remember being unpleasantly surprised by this so I'd like to do something
about it.

Possible approaches and related questions I have:

  *  The simplest option is to just always put a DRC entry in the list
explaining the issue and
     instructing the user what to do to make sure everything is ok.  I'm
leaning towards this
     option.  It's slightly less good but way easier to implement and I
think addresses the issue
     well enough.

  * The magic that detects both these condition is AddAllRats().  It sets a
variety of global state
     for various problems of interest like the above.  So it could be
called on DRC refresh and used
     to generate DRC reports for these problems.  The problem is it's
destructive: it resets the rats
     so if the user is trying to work on a subset of the board while
sometimes doing DRC refresh it's
     going to be annoying.  Is there a non-destructive equivalent?  Would
it be simple to create one?

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