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Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Connecting Nets by hand



The pins that you are going to connect must be connected in the
netlist file, otherwise the software won't allow you to connect them.
A way out is to disable the 'auto DRC clearance' in the settings manu.

vax, 9000

On 6/23/05, Samuel A. Falvo II <sam.falvo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm attempting to connect some nets by hand in a PCB layout that I
> have, but the thing won't let me!  For example, after I get done
> drawing the vias and the actual lines, I end up with the following
> situation (please excuse the use of ASCII art, but a picture is more
> succinct than words here):
> 
> o------ *
> |       *
> |       *
> |       *
> |
> |
> o-- *
>     *
> 
> Note that there are unavoidable *gaps* between the pins of the ICs and
> the lines that join to them.
> 
> I so far have not found *any* way to circumvent this.  What am I doing
> wrong?  I find it excruciatingly hard to believe that auto-routing and
> direct, point-to-point connections are the *only* way to join nets.
> :(
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Samuel A. Falvo II
>