On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 10:49:59PM -0600, Joseph Chen wrote: > Though you don't approve the change now, I hope you would approve it > sometime later soon, like maybe RC2. I am saying this because I > believe the fix is crucial for KiCAD to be improved towards a > production quality EDA, after I encountered my PCB's near "DEATH" > situation.
I don't think that checking unmatched names is so critical. In fact *most* of my labels are simply used to... label nets, not to create a connection. That way during routing I can see the signal which need particular attention (also it's easier to set netclasses in this way) A distraction like a mistyped label is akin to connecting a wire to the wrong pin (one time I flipped over an amp symbol... lot's of smoke happened :D); no ERC can save you from that. The *only* feature useful in the schematic DRC is the 'unconnected pin' warning; all the other ones (signal conflicts, power pins and so on) are a complete nuisance (at least for mixed signal and analog-heavy boards). Even for digital boards a filter inductor on a power pin would give a missing power warning :P -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
