X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at neurotica.com X-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=neurotica.com; s=default; t=1531246512; bh=n9Qmp+uWoOqAlnbHzMPxaC2o+a6AJuj75cnX7JGmM9g=; h=To:From:Subject:Date; b=bTyrDX/ZuQoIAzBnhpvSt0bjx9AoruQgwoLoinLh7LI7o2MjxNTgoPl27E4vxBoLJ j7d5MI6CodA9PabVO9hsKJMs6PPsalVo0NZTO61z3NCZ7P2zrt0l5XzlIqI26mJlqY XlRwqeqnT02brm8UA1ZxkL6Hsim/FwwNWAApWxbg= To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com From: "Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" Subject: [geda-user] shorted pads and the netlist in PCB Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=mcguire AT neurotica DOT com; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= xsBNBE90TjYBCACrtN5OyxdOGHWrUcxe4e6fFLaXpA7GIjN9pkTmbb2ozKNxgDKl6Gfk7ywx 19E+jUbO4KQ4/nhDvXXtWIH2J1a0eiRiDdaENzBtGxoiDIf6vJshMY0vKUn2OQfVn6kaQ5PY so5oPrNaJCphJDT/G8S6UzpvjB5UXrUb8625cD08H2Sx1Id79p8JYxs8tFZ1b9qViq8HisDB nmziw6oQoqpdMt3D1TX6XdeybfVCigyR26pQ60C/kzOVqT6BzR5ZxP3eTQQQnXc/MQxF3gkP 49g0/HdLjtDd9HyoDGydK83oDVgECxSXaAy/IO4rWgYJlQCaTScZLyJSn7uXPbSCHXTfABEB AAHNJERhdmUgTWNHdWlyZSA8bWNndWlyZUBuZXVyb3RpY2EuY29tPsLAfgQTAQIAKAIbIwYL CQgHAwIGFQgCCQoLBBYCAwECHgECF4AFAlr2Br0FCQ9EH10ACgkQTm0vsniSDMRRlQgAjNlC jNJpfcMz8YIELVzpTkPyKHAjHAsuuWzORCRpCP5i67FaOnP2jpdTEP50gxHiB4SqfVPshN4+ DEjsXiCLjqMIrR/5vgXRGa/F0Q4x5TbylzECmikv2zkRUnTnjt3g3o0ByCRSmGvZtIOaNTX5 Zc/EKrDPlRLKNYNHxmRWH54nrflDBvpxHMx38ZH5wXIL34RFozdafqb+C1uJkxx0/X1DS/Ct iIfsOX+FgqMRrS4855p1rYyWnxrsyPU09TNx1cYbL4lIQtlDJpibLnbCo/y0u6IcfrEA8t4p nj7QD3TLI01+FrK5Q9vkZ4vyM+XXs6ANoe/p47z+3l9AxtOj8c7ATQRPdE42AQgAuBxBsLxu AyyexLICB3NJ4Fu85/Wx0bESlBDPia3+jCfR8sjZ5PWlklJUlpBOc3CXmxwk4QPVTKDHM6kB GBq2etfMq9tGMrIhG68kY4KxcRw8mMTVMNeZaJQTa0+6X2MTNvesnutmYqiTEtnsv2R7WfU+ VAV5Fp9Opmb7bkkQ0uEKazDsLzYnaeg54hALx286inLN/T26eF6UwfrIRQpnYyEE3ip7BNlV YvrypzAFu+xlt+4o+yue67YZDrDX8qx/TQeSuGYUAfpdLro2t3w9Bg5qjMdwi4kA20BUgCiZ 2dS0ApgJwuKnY79YgKq92tD557Ky8m1MM84UNNfnO2ln+QARAQABwsBlBBgBAgAPAhsMBQJa 9gbYBQkPRB+fAAoJEE5tL7J4kgzEFToH/A5iL95Lou/0eDN1fBNUYj+00PlT5K+3h4QobhOx UWUPwJck2/SoIJPOkjk25FnMEsFvPBlkENdf6LmENWskOv5pvZqnc8IKLr5U3RIdkzw/OwGZ /imF+XdYhtGSlhAoxbJ8aTSJ2rkviBVLXH8m1zdKZveEnTJg620LBMbfKuZLwcTJ37oUdOYn eEbH5tb/eOKxGLId3Z59CGfsDXzwkk8PZn2U+vU0W5NPpOmg20q3iX0STsaFTIlCrOgTmFmh woJYFp7FNsv1Qmxbbvk8kvUe+VCsHiZa+UeYlk1GlJwKmLqJyM4IHi3e+TfsIYLjxsacu4eu M9oEb/I2cu6GcfA= Message-ID: <04df2ed2-45a1-dff5-6f6c-d9b9d5fcca0f@neurotica.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:15:11 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Hey folks. This has been bugging me off-and-on for years, and since I just ran across it again I thought I'd ask about it. When I have, for example, a surface-mount voltage regulator that has an exposed pad that's connected to ground, and I connect it to a plane for thermal reasons, I get complaints in the PCB Log window about the net that's connected to the plane being shorted to that pin of the component, because it's not reflected in the schematic (which may not have a "pin" for that pin) and is thus not in the generated netlist. Is there a way to deal with that gracefully, rather than just ignoring the error messages in the log? Surely others have run across this. Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA