kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Nox <noxfiregalaxy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Orson,

You are completely right and I am aware of this fact. Tbh this 
modification is in the current state only of limited use. Some of the 
few occasions I encountered was then I moved/copied some routed parts 
around or then I changed one pin from one net to another in the 
schematic for an already routed board. After reading in the new netlist 
the already existing tracks got not the desirable name (as they are now 
connected to two different pins/names) so I had to remove the tracks and 
replace them again to get them properly connect IIRC.

Actually I would love to discuss as well if auto renaming needs to be a 
mandatory step or if it could be a tool instead or if one could 
implement a option to preserve names of not or ambiguous connected 
elements during the auto renaming.

Regards,
Nox

Am 07.10.2016 um 19:14 schrieb Maciej Sumiński:
> Hi Nox,
>
> Tracks & vias obtain their nets through the net propagation algorithm:
> they inherit nets from the pads they are connected to. Manually assigned
> net names will be overridden every time the algorithm is executed.
>
> Regards,
> Orson
>
> On 10/07/2016 05:09 PM, Nox wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > what do you guys think about enabling edit of net names for tracks&vias
> > via the property dialog? Is it silly to allow that?
> > I thought about something like that: http://codepad.org/F2sGzw7u .
> >
> > best regards
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > 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