Re: gEDA-user: DRC vs shorted nets?

["harry eaton" <bumpelo@comcast.net>]

Steve,

Perhaps you should highlight the plane you want connected to the net with
the "find connections" (f-key), with rats in place, all pins/vias belonging
to the net will get highlighted. Then it should be easy to see whether a
thermal will be good or not - it should always be on a green pin/via over a
green polygon. Turning off other visible layers to reduce confusion might
also help.

harry
p.s. you can now also use the autorouter to make connections to ground/power
planes, provided at least one such connection already exists in order to
show it belongs to the net.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Meier" <smeier@AlchemyResearch.com>
To: <geda-user@seul.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: DRC vs shorted nets?


> I tend to create shorts most often using the thermal tool.  If I could
> declair a layer to be reserved for one net then most of my mistakes
> would be easy to spot.