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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2018-10-23 08:10, schrieb Jeff Young:
> So I broke our net-ties work-around when I added DRC for copper graphic 
> items.
>
> I plan to add a IS_NET_TIE flag to graphic items to fix it.  (This
> appears compatible with the net tie discussions of yore on the email
> list.)  There will be a checkbox in Graphic Item Properties to set it.
>
> Question: add checkbox only to graphic items in a footprint, or to all?
>
> Any other issues you see?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff.
>
> Note: we save the STATUS_FLAGS as an integer in the file, so while
> this constitutes a file-format change of sorts (an additional bit
> might be set), it’s fully backwards-compatible.

Hi Jeff-

What about just avoiding DRC between footprint graphic items and the 
other items in the same footprint?  That would avoid the file format 
change while keeping the purpose of the DRC (mostly).

Best-
Seth