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[André S. <list.dev.kicad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now at least I know that there are indeed people that use this as a feature. :)

Still I would like to have some mechanism to check for this.
In your case to make sure that indeed only the desired labels are on the same net.
In my case that only one name is given to each net.
Could still be done during ERC.
But maybe even as an additional optional step before generating the netlist. One additional button in the netlist dialog "Check for multiple labels" or something like that.

As for the netlist, the name in the netlist could be a concatenated string of all labels on a given net (alphabetical order?). That would prevent the confusion why there is one name on a net/pin that has a different label on the given schematic sheet. 

  André 

On July 25, 2015 7:13:10 PM GMT+02:00, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>It works for us.  In all the PCBs we've made at W&L over the past five
>years in KiCad, I don't think any have been impacted by issues stemming
>from this.  I don't route based on netnames--I route based on the
>ratsnest.
>
>Honestly, if I were going to implement this, I might make the netnames
>be a
>concatenated list of all the labels--something like A0/MOISTURE or
>something like that, assuming one label was A0 and another was
>MOISTURE.
>If you're worried about netnames staying the same, though, there'd have
>to
>be a consistent ordering...
>
>But--it works for me as it is.
>
>Adam Wolf
>Cofounder and Engineer
>W&L
>
>On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:25 AM, André S.
><list.dev.kicad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On July 25, 2015 6:04:18 PM GMT+02:00, Adam Wolf <
>> adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >I hate to be "this guy" (https://xkcd.com/1172/),
>> :D
>>
>>
>> >have also "seen it in the wild" quite a bit as well.
>> >
>> How do you know that net in the layout? It can have any of the labels
>> there. In the netlist "there can only be one". It may even change
>name when
>> doing some edit in the schematic and generating a new netlist.
>>
>> >If this were to be a warning, it would probably need to be something
>I
>> >could turn off.
>> Could be an option e.g. in the ERC options. I would expect a
>warning/error
>> either when doing ERC or generating the netlist.
>>
>>   André
>>
>>
>>
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