2008/1/18, patrickymwong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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 >
> Hi, The two attached file are (almost) the solution of Pedro, the ground pad in N° 10 instead of 0. P.S. : Rename .li_ to .lib . The .emp file is the footprint that you have to import with the package editor. HTH. -- Danilo Uccelli CH-2400 Le Locle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DB9-FC.emp
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DB9.li_
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