have a key mapped to add selected/over to current routing net. this way you add the via, sub trace, plane to the current net.
have this key also update the auto-drc to allow that freshly added component to be not avoided. Hardkrash On Oct 15, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Ben Jackson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:43:59PM +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: >> >> Currently I am connecting a RAM chip to an FPGA. Often I place vias >> first, and then connect traces to these vias. If"Auto enforce DRC >> clearance" is active, I can not connect traces to these "lonesome" >> vias, >> so I have to deactivate "Auto enforce DRC clearance". > > Depending on which direction you are routing you can sometimes work > around > this by mousing over where you want to go and hitting 'f' which will > 'find' > that net which is then something you can bump into by auto-DRC rules. > > As for temporarily defeating auto-drc to a via, I had considered > it. My > conclusion was that you could only allow direct (x,y exactly at the > center > eg due to snapping) connection because otherwise you could "graze" the > lone via unintentionally. > > -- > Ben Jackson AD7GD > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.ben.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user