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Re: Joining buses with junctions behavior

 

Jon-

Thanks for catching this discrepancy.  I had written the logic such that
busses connect to other busses by a bus-to-bus entry.  But clearly, that is
historically not accurate and there needs to be a junction.

-S

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As I am working on bus features I have dived into all the ways you can use
> buses (that I haven't always known about myself).
>
> One thing I noticed was an example given on the docs:
> http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/stable/en/eeschema.html#wires-
> buses-labels-power-ports
>
> Under "Global connections between buses", you have three different named
> bus segments joined together with a junction, and a description of how
> their nets will be connected during netlisting.
>
> a) This behavior seems to be kind of broken at present -- when I try to
> replicate it, the junction is sometimes automatically removed, and the
> netlist does not join all of the nets as described in the manual (maybe
> related to Seth's recent changes?)
>
> b) Those of you who use this feature: how do you use it?  Do you care that
> the final netlist arbitrarily picks one of the possible net names?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jon
>
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