gEDA-user: n00b question: English - Metric connections

[Eric Brombaugh]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 7:22 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:

>
>> Is there an accepted best-practice way to get around these
>> english-metric misalignments? What about line spacing on the fan-in  
>> to
>> the fine pitch pads? How to keep this from causing all sorts of  
>> violations?
>
> Snap-to-pins is your friend.  Even on an inch grid, letting the
> crosshair snap to pads gives you nice clean connections to metric
> parts.

Hey - that's working nicely. Thanks to John & DJ.

Now trying to figure out the proper approach to doing ground plane.  
Turning on the "clear lines" setting would have been good if I'd known  
about it _before_ doing all those routes, but the shift-J shortcut is  
working nicely.

One issue that's come up is that DRC is complaining about potential  
disconnects on polygons that are butted against each other. Seems that  
to avoid this I need to make them overlap. True?

Eric