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[José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why can invisible pins be connected at all?

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 3:00 AM, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> It seems there is no patch attached to this message. I realize it is
> better to hide invisible pins when they obscure the view, but I wonder
> whether the user should be at least aware of their presence.
>
> In case a symbol does not follow the KLC and has invisible pins exposed,
> then it can easily create an unwanted connection. In my opinion such
> symbol is badly designed and should not really occur, but I am just
> giving an idea of what may go wrong. Perhaps we should have an ERC rule
> that warns about invisible pins being connected to a wire, any thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Orson
>
> On 01/11/2018 05:10 AM, Jon Evans wrote:
> > Implemented an override flag that makes it possible to turn off invisible
> > pin rendering outside of the EDA_DRAW_FRAME.
> >
> > Fixes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1742485
> >
> > IMHO this is a bug, not a feature request, because the invisible pins
> > clutter the view in the preview pane of the component chooser and are not
> > necessary.
> >
> > -Jon
> >
> >
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