On 9/13/2015 1:50 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > 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 >
When a pin is connected to a wire with a label that doesn't go anywhere, does the ERC generate an error? It probably should because technically this is still an unconnected pin. This is a more sensible then checking for unmatched label names for the reasons Lorenzo stated above. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
