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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Let's not get too hung up on EN60617-3.  I really don't care if KiCad is
compliant to some standard other than exporting to third party file
formats.  What I do care about is the user experience.  If the goal is
to make it obvious to the user (IMO a good thing) that a schematic
connection is or is not made, then I would rather do what makes the best
user experience rather than follow some standard generated by government
body and/or committee.

On 6/8/2015 8:25 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> 60617-3 allows a dotless junction (as in 03-02-06), but the same 
> connection can be represented with two 03-02-05; it is not a violation of 
> the standard to always use dots.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 08:48:12AM +0300, Vesa Solonen wrote:
>> 08/06/15, 00:44, Wayne Stambaugh kirjoitti:
>>> One thing I did notice is that bus entries do not draw the connection
>>> point so they cannot show their connection status.  It would be nice if
>>> bus entries exhibited the same behavior.  I'm not sure how much work
>>> would be involved.  I'm surprised I never noticed that before or AFAIR
>>> no one has every said anything about it.
>>
>> Are you guys aware that to support both options in EN 60617-3 (1997)
>> [symbols 03-02-04 to 03-02-07] the connection point must only be drawn
>> when the connection is in crossing or identical branching [symbol
>> 03-02-09] wires/buses? Otherwise it should be an user configurable option.
>>
>> Maybe Kicad could use the same end-centered ring hint for all open
>> connections in addition to pins, also while drawing wires and buses.
>>
>> -Vesa
>>
>>
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