Re: gEDA-user: Make net lines invisible

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On 05/09/09 13:16, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:30:09 +0200, Link wrote:
>
>> At the moment all I can think of is
>> duplicating the pins, mirroring them horizontally and overlaying them
>> onto the existing pins so that drawing a net to pin 1 connects to pins 1
>> _and_ 2, but that seems rather hacky to me.
>
> Hiding a net is even more hacky.
>
>
>> Are there any better ways?
>
> I'd modify the footprint, so that two pads are associated with one pin of
> the symbol. Just attach the same pin number to the two pads. So the
> symbol contains 11 pins that connect to 22 pads of the footprint. This
> approach keeps the notion that the schematic handles nets while the
> layout deals with the shapes of components.
>
> ---<(kaimartin)>---

I guess that works. Thanks. :)


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