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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Also keep in mind that the standard is pay-to-access. That's not fit for 
an open-source project. I rather suspect it would be frowned upon if we 
were to buy a copy and then put it into the documentation for all to 
access - and if we don't, how can we follow it?

Forget the damn standard. Make our own, if need be.

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 08:58:50AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 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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