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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => KiCad => Topic started by: ludzinc on December 02, 2014, 02:20:29 pm

Title: KiCAD DRC Issues
Post by: ludzinc on December 02, 2014, 02:20:29 pm

In completing a recent job for a customer, I had a few DRC issues with KiCAD<

See the summary here:

http://ludzinc.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/kicad-tidbits.html (http://ludzinc.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/kicad-tidbits.html)

Biggest tip I have is how to resolve not-connected nets, when the copper is there!

Title: Re: KiCAD DRC Issues
Post by: firewalker on December 02, 2014, 09:06:50 pm

Are you letting the developers to know your remarks (bug report)? Thanks for another great article on KiCAD.

Alexander.

Title: Re: KiCAD DRC Issues
Post by: ludzinc on December 02, 2014, 09:18:37 pm

That's the plan. Today's job is to work out how!

Title: Re: KiCAD DRC Issues
Post by: c4757p on December 10, 2014, 09:45:12 pm

The "tracks aren't connected unless the ends meet" bit is exceedingly annoying, but it's small enough that rather than immediately pissing me off and sending me scurrying for the bug report form, it's been slowly driving me insane instead! :scared:

That one needs a bug report filed. On a complex board, it can be really hard to track down the bad connection when it decides that a connection hasn't been made. It doesn't help that it makes no attempt to hint at where it might be - instead of finding the two nearest points and showing them as disconnected, it just finds any two points...