Re: gEDA-user: PCB Short and solder bridge elements.

["John Luciani" <jluciani-atMUNGEDgmail_dot_com>]

On 3/29/07, Steven Michalske <smichalske@gmail.com> wrote:

> The workaround i currently use is to draw up using normal 0603 parts
> and after my design meets DRC and has no shorted nets, I go through
> and manually short the elements.
> The dilemma here is that this is not error-proof, it also provides a
> dilemma when I accidently route a trace between pads on larger parts,
> think 2512.
>
> What suggestions can you folks come up with,  is this something that
> we should build into PCB,  the ability for an element to have two
> pins electrically connected, but be separate nets.

Your manual process would be easy to automate with a script. Make a special
footprint for your shorted-pads element, search for that element in the PCB
file, save the pad coordinates and add a trace on the appropriate layer.

(* jcl *)


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