Re: gEDA-user: Split ground planes and zero ohm jumpers

[Russell Dill <russd@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Kovacs Levente <leventelist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 23:30:21 -0700
> Russell Dill <russd@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The common way to track common ground planes seems to be to place a
>> jumper between the planes so that the netlist can be sane. This
>> requires a component to be placed on one of the outer layers of the
>> board, which is a bit of an annoyance. Is there any other way of doing
>> this? Maybe some kind of hacked component on an inner layer?
>
> What I do is I place a 0Ohm resistor, and when the layout is ready, I short it
> with a line. This will give DRC error, but I ignore it.

Perhaps I'll go with a solder blob jumper. A "drawbridge" component in
PCB that is just a special type of trace would be really nice.


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