Re: gEDA-user: Auto-enforce DRC clearance (was Arc to line connections)

["John Luciani" <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/27/07, Randall Nortman <geda-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [Apologies if this goes to the list twice; I sent it out the first
> time from the wrong address, so I think the list software will block
> that copy.]
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:47:18PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >
> > > So I started turning things off in the settings menu until I
> > > narrowed it down to "Auto-enforce DRC clearance".
> >
> > For reference, I never use that setting.
>
> I find it invaluable, as it tells me in real time exactly how close I
> can bring my trace to things it's not supposed to touch.  I like to
> pack things quite tightly.  Without auto-enforce, I'd be constantly
> running the DRC checker and re-drawing traces.  It seems like it would
> be quite tedious.

I find it invaluable as well. I also like the "Crosshair shows DRC
clearance" option.

Those options make it much quicker to layout dense traces.

(* jcl *)


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