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Subject: Re: [geda-user] A lesson from gnet-makefile
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Nicklas Karlsson
(nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 09:16:10 -0400
> "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de> wrote:
>> > Nicklas Karlsson  wrote:
>> >
>> >> Yes, only problem with star ground symbol in gschem is how many pins
>> >> it should have. In pcb for many cases it would make sense with one
>> >> common connection point.
>> >>
>> > Last time this topic surfaced on the mailing list the most practical
>> > suggestion was to exploit a pecularity of text in copper:
>> > The connection check of geda-pcb completely ignores letters. Insert a
>> > large "-" and make regular tracks overlap with the character but not
>> > connect to each other.
>>
>> That is a scary bug.
>
> According to my oppinion ideally DRC should look on copper layer not which symbol it belong to. If it look on nets only I guess it could more or less temporary assign some net to all copper objects.

I think you are imagining something that works a little differently
from the way PCB handles this but I could be wrong.

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