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

["Markus Traidl" <geda@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> 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.

The library department at my company defined a special component for that
purpose. We have a 2, 3 or 4 Star Symbol for that. To that symbol a special
footprint will be attached where the pins are connected.
The component is a smd device and I can place it in the layout at the top or
bottom side.





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