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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

It poses a question then: are the bus-to-bus entries ever used?

Regards,
Orson

On 12/10/2017 08:12 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> 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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