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

[Xtian Xultz <xultz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I consider that a great unconsitency in pcb. When you have a netlist, thats 
the rule. But when you short a net with other, and you highlight one of them 
(with f key) both are highlighted! So, this function dont respect the 
netlist, but what is really connected. And that makes the hunting much more 
hard.


Em Ter 04 Jan 2005 21:29, Steve Meier escreveu:
> 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<