Re: gEDA-user: DRC vs shorted nets?

[Stephen Meier <smeier@AlchemyResearch.com>]

OK shooting from the hip...


A pin or pad is definently connected to a net.  Copper between pins/pads 
is less definite. How about a hot/cold system. Show copper changing from 
one net to the next based upon distance to the nearest pin/pad.



Just a wild assed non thought through idea....


Steve M.




Bob Paddock wrote:

>  
> > Their location changed in such a way that the connectivity was changed. In
> > your sourceforge example, it placed a track right across the two pads of
> > C101.  This is a nice solid short, not a tenuous one, thus there is no DRC,
> > only a  short.
> >    
> Ok, but it would be nice if something gave the location of the short.  Change 
> color, or X/Y points.
>
> What defines "tenuous" distances?  Zero is apparently not a tenuous distance.
> How do the tenuous distances relate to the "DRC Minimium..." under the size 
> menu?  A distance of one gets a warning but zero does not?
>
>