gEDA-user: Verifying connections in PCB?

[Stuart Brorson]

Thanks to DJ and John for quick responses.

As you both guessed, I once again proved that I am a bonehead.  After
posting, I discovered two additional rats hiding in the corner of the
board.  I connected those two nets, and then when I hit "o" to refresh
the rats I got the "congratulations, you are done" message.

Thanks again for the timely advice!

Stuart


On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, John Luciani wrote:

> On 9/21/06, Stuart Brorson <sdb at cloud9.net> wrote:
>> PCB gurus,
>> 
>> I am editing a PCB design I created some months ago.  I made some mods
>> to my schematic, re-ran gsch2pcb, imported the changes (both
>> footprints and netlist), put down teh new footprints and re-drew the
>> tracks.
>> 
>> Now I think I am done with the board.  With a new board PCB
>> will pop up a "routing complete" message when all connections are
>> made.  However, I am not getting that message, even though I see no
>> rats anywhere.
>
> This happens to me all the time. There is usually a very tiny net (1)
> hidden under a pad
> or (2) under a track. If you moved parts between layers or deleted
> vias you can generate
> these tiny nets.
>
> If you set your net color and background for a very high contrast you
> should be able
> to turn of all copper and silkscreen and find the tiny nets by zooming way 
> out.
>
> A command to place a big circle around all remaining nets would be real nice.
>
> (* jcl *)
>
>
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