gEDA-user: GND vs. PGND

[Andy Peters]

On Jan 9, 2007, at 10:38 AM, John Luciani wrote:

> On 09 Jan 2007 18:13:35 +0100, David Kuehling <dvdkhlng at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I used both (analog) GND and PGND symbols in my layout.  Now after
>> running gschem2pcb and loading the netlist file I see that those  
>> symbols
>> create two separated nets.
>>
>> Still I want to connect GND and PGND somewhere in my layout without
>> making the DRC complain.  I tried to add a connection between GND and
>> PGND in my schematic, but that doesn't help.
>
> If you attach two named nets to a component pin they will connect.
> See my simple example below.

A net with two names should throw a Big Fat DRC Error!

-a