On 18 Jan 2008 at 13:52, patrickymwong wrote: > Dear all, > > I placed a DB9 male connector on my board. When routing traces I > intended to short circuit the mounting holes of the connector to > ground. However the electrical rule of pcbnew does not allow to do so > as a no-conn symbol is set to the two pads. I tried to edit the net > name of pads to "GND" (as other ground pins in circuit) but this is not > working, and re-reading the netlist reverts the (manually) edited > properties. > > In eeschema there is also no way to define short of DB9 mounting holes > to ground. > > Anyone have ideas please kindly advise. > > Many thanks, > Patrick > You can use the Libedit in EEschema to set the net on the mounting holes to GND. You will have to define the mounting holes as pins. You can use pin 0 for both. Then replace all instances of the DB9 with the new DB9. You can edit the pin in PCBNEW, but it will only stay until you re-read the net.
Dave - WB6DHW <http://wb6dhw.com>
