Re: gEDA-user: Insufficient clearance of pad inside polygon

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can just imagine a tactile feedback of a short through the mouse as
the wrong nets are connected.. a jolting idea don't you think?

Steve Meier

Steve Meier wrote:
>Wouldn't you like to know the moment you short two nets rather then at
>some later point that two nets are shorted?
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>Steve Meier
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>Steve Meier wrote:
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>>DJ,
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>>Stop, you are causing me to have to think again!
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>>Ok, one of the drc tests, apparently, is to test if a land pattern
>>conforms to the design rules (e.g. silk screen thickness) why doesn't
>>the drc run every time a land pattern is dropped into a layout? Is it
>>not better to be proactive then reactive?
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>>Steve M.
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>>DJ Delorie wrote:
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>>>>Where is the button for drawing the schematic for me in the first place?
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>>>:-)
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>>>However, his request makes sense.  I didn't disagree with that part, I
>>>was just asking if a simpler/faster solution would be an acceptable
>>>compromise.
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>>>Consider spell checkers, for example.  They *all* offer fix-on-the-fly
>>>of various sorts, and I think PCB should offer something similar.
>>>It's a *real* pain to keep track of what needs to be fixed, and go
>>>back and fix them.  Either a fix-on-the-fly feature needs to be added,
>>>or a DRC layer or overlay needs to be added which tags all the errors
>>>and lets you remove tags as you fix stuff.
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>>>But making arbitrary changes from inside DRC is harder than an
>>>independent option that fixes one type of reasonably safe DRC problem.
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