Hi Steven, The via tool is still quite fresh, so as you have noticed - it might be lacking in certain cases. Would you please turn it into a bug report? Your message is already drowning in the mailing list traffic, but a bug report will stay in the tracker until it is resolved.
Regards, Orson On 09/13/2017 05:53 AM, Strontium wrote: > His second criticism is with the via tool. > > What he did is lay two tracks on his board, one on either side. (Both > had the same net) > > He then pressed the via tool, and dropped vias into the intersections. > > The vias created design violations because they are assigned No Net. > Doing DRC does not reconnect them. > > This is hostile, especially for a new user. His complaint was, whats > the point of a via tool if i cant place a via on a track and it "Just > Work". Seems a reasonable criticism. > > We argued about the end cases, but I agree with him that: > > 1. If you have tracks with the same net on multiple tracks, the via tool > should be able to place a via on the tracks and pick up their net. It > shouldn't create a Design violation. > > 2. If you have one track with a net and the other(s) with "No Net" the > via should get the net of the one track that has a net. > > 3. That a DRC should propagate the net through connectivity of the > connected tracks and vias laid in this way, and it currently doesn't. > It just throws a design violation. > > 4. With DRC checking enabled, it shouldn't be possible to drop a via if > that via would cause a design violation. Exactly like its not possible > to lay two tracks with different nets over one another. (For example, > two tracks on different layers, with different nets should not be able > to put a via over them because thats a design violation) > > I am not sure if the Via tool is considered complete, or still a work in > progress, however I think these things should be considered as the way > it currently works is unintuitive. > > Steven > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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