gEDA-user: Another: Can I use static pins as vias?

[Ben Jackson]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:56:14PM +0200, lynx.abraxas at freenet.de wrote:
> In  my board I used static pins (just for better hold with a rot-encoder) as a
> vias. Sadly I didn't figure out how to tell PCB not  to  complain  that  as  a
> short circuit. Is there a way to prevent PCB of complaining here?

Either don't connect them to the surrounding plane or put them in the
netlist.

When I made a symbol with "lugs" recently I just used a net= attribute to
attach the lugs to GND.  I've also seen symbols that just bring the
additional pins out.

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Ben Jackson AD7GD
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