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["Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Janis,

Opinions?  Just add a module with a single pad that is very
small, add a netname to the pad with the module editor.  Start
your track there.  Otherwise, BY DEFINITION, floating tracks
have no net.

--brian

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Janis Skujenieks wrote:

>    I will bring this up once more.
> 
>    Are there any more opinions on this?
> 
>    This is weird that nobody else feels this very inconvenient. How the
>    rest of you place stand alone via. I need this quite often. On the
>    other hand if this kind of feature is not supported, pcbnew shouldn't
>    allow to start track on copper filled areas. Actually this is exactly
>    how I do it now. When rest is routed, I fill zones with copper and then
>    place vias, starting track anywhere on filled zone.
>    On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <[1]dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>    wrote:
> 


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