On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Lachlan Audas <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can assign net name''s to via's, when you add a track from pad to via > then to track, (picking up the pad net name) > if the first pad to via track is deleted, just leaving the via and > track, flood fill works as expected, connecting to that via/track, but > when you save and reload the board, it drop's the net name on the > via/track, and flood fill no longer connects to them. > > Is that by design ? and why is unconnected pad to via/tack net name's > deleted on save ? > > Yes, this behavior is deliberate (and has been discussed a number of times in the past). > It would make life a lot easy if net name's were maintained on via's, as > when importing from Eagle, > Eagle use's via's to power plan and flood fill connections, which also > supports blind via's, which pad's don't. > I notice, that in the KiCad pcb file net names are supported on via's. > > Lachlan. > > > In KiCad the vias are modeled as a type of track, but naturally an orphaned track cannot have a net. Any proposed changes to the current behavior would require a lot of thought since there are very many implications on the design and the automated design checking and various other functions and checks which are invisible to the user. - Cirilo
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