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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.

> This is of course an abuse of a missing feature (connection check of
> strings in copper) which might break if/when somebody takes the time
> to fix it. But at least it works now.
>
> And it gives a hint for a second best solution: Add a tag "ignore-for-
> connection-check" which can be attached to a track segment. This would
> of course also not check for unwanted connections to the tagged
> segment. But since it is an explicit localized exception, the risk is
> manageable. After all, we live with not connection checked text all
> the time...
>
> ---<)kaimartin(>---
>



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