Thomas Oldbury wrote: > I am getting these messages: > > Warning! Net "3V3plus" is shorted to net "GND" > Warning! Net "GND" is shorted to net "3V3plus" > > The 3.3V bus is used all over the board. How can I locate > specifically which part is shorted?
This is what I do: 1) open the net list window 2) click on one of the offending nets. The right side of the netlist window will show all the pads and pins that are connected to this net. 3) double click a pin or pad. On the canvas, the cursor warps to the pin. 4) move the mouse slightly 5) zoom in 6) type [f] while te mouse hovers over the pin or pad 7) follow the highlighted path to see, where it goes off-road. Step 4 and 5 are really only necessary, if the pin count is fairly large. If the offending connection is to ground, like in your case, and there is a ground plane, then there may be find color all over the place. So, there is no visible path to follow. In that case, I put the polygons into their own layers with their own, private layer group. They are not considered connected anymore If everything else fails, I resort to plain old bisection: Remove the right half of the layout and check, whether the short goes away. Repeat, until you spot the problem. Then revert to the complete layout. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x6C0B9F53 increasingly unhappy with moderation of geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
