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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 23:06:22 +0200
From: "Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB connect pad to plane
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> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 6:40 AM Chad Parker (parker DOT charles AT gmail DOT com)
> [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> >
> > If you set the clearance of a pad to zero inside a polygon, you should get a "Pad with insufficient clearance inside polygon" error, not a "copper areas too close error". If you're getting the latter, that's a bug and we should fix it. Are you building from source? Have you run the tests? The DRC now has a pretty comprehensive set of test cases, and I would expect this to be flagged. A quick test with 4.2.0 on Win10 flags this correctly.
> 
> It's the insufficient clearance one
> 
> > It should, however, throw an error. It is technically breaking a design rule, even if you're doing it intentionally. The consequences of making such a connection unintentionally is quite high, and so it's safer, IMO, to throw the error and have you verify that the connection is intentional.
> 
> thinking about the overall issue for more than half second I agree.
> It happens to work out well for ground plane and ground pads but there
> are other cases.  This is sort of another issue that comes up because
> DRC and connection are sort of unaware of each other I guess.

DRC should care about copper only unless there are special flag or similar indicating it is OK of course.


Nicklas Karlsson