Re: gEDA-user: gschem, nets, and netlists

[Stephen Meier <smeier@AlchemyResearch.com>]

I think you are right in creating a virtual object with two pins to 
break your net. PCB will expect a real component for this virtual 
object. You will need to create a pattern with two overlaping pads. 
However you can expect PCB to complain about the two nets being shorted 
together.

Steve Meier


Bert Douglas wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I have a long net.  But some parts of it need to use fat traces. I 
> need to communicate this information to the autorouter somehow.
>
> So I would like to have one gschem net be written to the netlist file 
> as multiple nets with assigned names.  Is there a way to do this?
>
> Or alternatively, is there a way to use a virtual, zero-size, two pin 
> component to achieve the same result.
>
> Thanks much,
> Bert