kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I believe the issue here is that KiCad automatically cleans up vias that
aren't attached to a track. Your description is kind of confusing, but I'm
assuming you may have ended up with a free floating via. This is a common
complaint and the best solution right now is probably to follow these
instructions for "permanent vias":
https://forum.kicad.info/t/protip-nicer-via-stitching/1103

For what it is worth you might want to post questions like this to the
kicad user group on yahoo (
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kicad-users/info) or on
http://forum.kicad.info. If you do end up running in to a bug or problem
then the bug tracker is a better place for that as well.

Jon

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Lachlan Audas <laudas1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You can assign net name''s to via's,  when you add a track from pad to via
> then to track, (picking up the pad net name)
> if  the first pad to via track is deleted,  just leaving the via and
> track,   flood fill works as expected, connecting to that via/track,  but
> when you save and reload the board,  it drop's the net name on the
> via/track, and flood fill no longer connects to them.
>
> Is that by design ?   and why is unconnected pad to via/tack net name's
> deleted on save ?
>
> It would make life a lot easy if net name's were maintained on via's,  as
> when importing from Eagle,
> Eagle use's via's to power plan and flood fill connections, which also
> supports blind via's, which pad's don't.
> I notice, that in the KiCad pcb file net names are supported on via's.
>
> Lachlan.
>
>
>
> PS: build 6103,  Debian Linux 32bit and 64bit version.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>
>