Re: gEDA-user: net A is shorted to net B

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have done that... many many times...

What I usually have done is connected the wrong via to ground or power
with a thermal.

Try selecting everything the ground net (click on something ground then
right click and pull down to Lookup Connections... making everything
ground bright light green.

Then turn off the ground layer.

Then look for vias that have the light bright green thermals. Start
disabling those vias while hitting "o" (optimize) until the short is
eliminated.

Good hunting,

Steve Meier


On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 11:54, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> Hello
> 
> When in PCB I get a message "net A is shorted to net B"
> (usually A is GND and B +5V to get the worst situation possible)
> what's the optimum algorithm (least number of traces deleted) to get rid of
> this situation?
> 
> After ripping up 50% of my PCB I often realize the problem was in some nit
> forgotten somewhere.
> 
> Some things always get pink and some get light blue but that's about all I was
> able to learn.
> 
> Cl<