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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2018-10-23 13:45, schrieb mdoesbur@xxxxxxxxx:
> Ignoring clearances in a footprint sound scary to me.  Doing 1kV
> designs I want the clearances checked, so Ik know I've chosen the wrong
> footprint. How about creating special pin names xxx_nettie just like
> the special netnames for differential pairs?

Hi Mark-

This is the current 5.0 behavior, so nothing is changing in this 
respect.

The issue is that users have designed boards with 5.0 and the 5.0 nettie 
libraries.  We do not want 5.1 to change things in a way that causes 
existing boards to fail DRC.

-S