Cannot turn off ratsnet for a specific layer

[bask185]

I was doing… y’know just work. And I noticed that I could not turn off the GND lines of the ratsnest.

( I am aware of the GND via being to close to that 5V pad)

I think we are looking at a bug here? Rebooting KiCad doesn’t seem to solve it.

Kind regards,

Bas

Application: KiCad PCB Editor x64 on x64

Version: 8.0.2, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.4
FreeType 2.12.1
HarfBuzz 8.3.0
FontConfig 2.14.2
libcurl/8.5.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.3

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit editie, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
Date: Apr 27 2024 23:05:17
wxWidgets: 3.2.4 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.83.0
OCC: 7.7.1
Curl: 8.5.0-DEV
ngspice: 42
Compiler: Visual C++ 1936 without C++ ABI

Build settings:

[paulvdh]

I am not sure what I am looking at here.

Firs a little side thing. Why is the GND pad connected to the pad with Net-[(U701-V3)?

The reason I am confused a bit is that I see a /GND net in the Appearance Manager / Nets tab. I am not fully comfortable with the (relatively new) full net paths but because of the slash in the name, this looks like a local label in the root sheet. Your GND pads on the canvas do not have a slash, and this implies it’s a global net name.

For KiCad, there is nothing special about the GND name. It is simply a net that follows all the basic rules for nets. In KiCad different label types with the same name only connect to each other if they are on the same hierarchical sheet. So you very likely have two different GND nets. One /GND from a local label, and the other GND from a global label, and you can probably find both names in the list in the appearance manager.

If you put a global label with the GND name in the root sheet (or a GND symbol, which also acts as a global label), then those nets will probably merge into one.