The circle and square show the internal path-vertex check. If they vanish, that is considered linked.
I tried the finest grid of 1, to see if there was any no-mans-land where the circle.square could vanish,but not spawn a connection and I could not recreate.
ie I could not get a result where visually the hints were gone, but the connection was not made. That would be more serious.
That’s not quite the same in your top image you have a error tag, but the pin 3 will be connected.
The error tag may be generated something else.
Yes, with a lot of error tags, SCH side can get less ideal…
Comment 1 : Who decided Green as an Error colour is a ‘good idea’, or having ALL errors one colour is a good idea ?
Different colour tags would be visually much easier to manage, and some ‘errors’ are really ‘warnings.’
ie getting : " When I get ErrType(8): Global label not connected to any other global label might not be a design error, but a deliberate net-name or tag-style choice.
It’s still useful as a warning, as the SW has alerted the user to a possible typo, but if the user ‘really does want to do that’, the even merely average SW should not force that decision into an error basket.
@Sonophoto : Thanks for the info ! @Bobc : Where did you find the infos for the Python bindings you use ? (I suppose it was done with SWIG or similar)…
See the examples and other plugins to sort out what you need to do for plugins in pcbnew vs. external scripts
If you don’t know python (or even programming!):
Please understand, Python is very easy to learn to use, if you can blink pin 13 on an Arduino by yourself you can learn basic Python in two days effort and the effort will reward you greatly.
You know… there really should be an align to grid" function or we should be prevented from changing the setting… or at least get a warning of the implications.
A better solution would be to snap to other things than the grid. But for both solutions we would need to wait for version 6 as new features can not be added in minor releases.
Thanks Bob and Brig for the infos and pointers.
But it seems to be all related to pcbnew ? Eschema is not covered by these docs, right ?
@Rene_Poschl Yes, priority driven snap system would be nice (example : snap to grid, but will snap to pin if “close enough”).
If I understand well, we have 2 years left to think about it .