Re: gEDA-user: pcb, how to remove mm garbage (very short lines)?

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I often end up hitting that key by mistake (not sure why, but I do -
> perhaps because its near my laptop's "Delete" key), the "optimiser"
> then spends a good deal of CPU cycles wrecking my board in very
> subtle ways, such as adding those short stubby pieces of lines where
> I had ended on a pad, but not exactly where it wanted.
> 
> The optimiser also sometimes ended up moving / deleting nodes in
> line-segments, in such a way as to change the line segment's angle,
> producing a new line which violated DRC, or in the occasional case,
> shorted the track to another.

The optimizer should never turn a good board into a bad board, that's
always a bug.  The logic in the optimizer isn't that simple, though,
so fixing said bugs may be tricky.  Sample boards (and/or patches ;)
welcome.


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