It seems crazy to me too, but I guess we can't remove support for it because someone out there is probably relying on it...
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Andy Peters <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 10, 2017, at 9:09 AM, Jon Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > As I am working on bus features I have dived into all the ways you can > use buses (that I haven't always known about myself). > > > > One thing I noticed was an example given on the docs: > > http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/stable/en/eeschema.html#wires- > buses-labels-power-ports > > > > Under "Global connections between buses", you have three different named > bus segments joined together with a junction, and a description of how > their nets will be connected during netlisting. > > > > a) This behavior seems to be kind of broken at present -- when I try to > replicate it, the junction is sometimes automatically removed, and the > netlist does not join all of the nets as described in the manual (maybe > related to Seth's recent changes?) > > > > b) Those of you who use this feature: how do you use it? Do you care > that the final netlist arbitrarily picks one of the possible net names? > > User perspective: I honestly had no idea that EESchema would do what is > claimed in the docs under “Global connections between buses." > > "Buses PCA [0..15], ADR [0..7] and BUS [5..10] are connected together > (note the junction here because the vertical bus wire joins the middle of > the horizontal bus segment). > > "More precisely, the corresponding members are connected together : PCA0, > ADR0 are connected, (as same as PCA1 and ADR1 … PCA7 and ADR7). > Furthermore, PCA5, BUS5 and ADR5 are connected (just as PCA6, BUS6 and > ADR6 like PCA7, BUS7 and ADR7). PCA8 and BUS8 are also connected (just as > PCA9 and BUS9, PCA10 and BUS10).” > > That seems crazy to me. > > -a > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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