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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

I ask for a bug report here as well. We plan to improve DRC, but it is
not the right moment to do so, as we need to focus to finish the last
features for v5 and switch to the feature freeze stage.

Regards,
Orson

On 09/13/2017 06:04 AM, Strontium wrote:
> His third criticism is with net connectivity.
> 
> What he did was he has a component with 4 GND pads in a row.  He ran a
> track across them (in the middle) and finished it at the last pad.  The
> Track clearly crosses all pads, however the DRC shows them as
> "unconnected" when they are really connected electrically.
> 
> His complaint is that this is tedious and unintuitive to lay, and wrong
> from a physical model of the board perspective.  That any copper track
> crossing a pad at any point should be considered connected, because it
> is, it shouldn't need to touch the centre of the pad, which is an
> arbitrary anchor.
> 
> Its also not consistent with a track that crosses a pad that is not its
> net.  That track, if it touches the wrong pad at any point throws a DRC
> error, but if it connects to a pad with the correct net (but doesn't end
> on the pads centre) is considered not connected.
> 
> There is an edge case where a track only slightly touches a pad, and is
> electrically connected, but Not connected sufficiently for the design,
> but that is not the same thing as being "unconnected" and isn't handled
> by DRC now in any event.
> 
> He IS a new user and he naturally has numerous complaints, most of which
> result from frustration with learning a new tool, and I talk him through
> those.  But, I think these three points are valid criticisms that the
> developers should consider in the future.  I will make some entries in
> the bug tracking system to track these, but I wanted feedback first, are
> these "wont fix" or "feature requests", "bugs", etc.
> 
> Steven
> 
> 
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