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Hi Andy Thank you, will try in morning. Let you know how I get on. I'm in Cape town Barry

It's generally a pain to do things without a schematic, especially as it takes so little time to draw up a circuit to keep the system happy. If you want to do so then, turn off all DRC functions and

Hi All, retired 72 young grew up with pCad 5 For dos? Is it possible to manually enter a ratsnest to start a PCB without a schematic? PS kicad by Thanks Barry

Hi Don't reinvent the wheel. There are "net-tie" libraries for Kicad. If you can't find it your installation you can try this one: https://kicad.github.io/footprints/NetTie HIH Best

First, if folks haven't checked docs.kicad.org recently, I recommend doing so. The net tie thing isn't documented there, but many other things that I commonly see people asking about on forums

I understand how hacks/workarounds get implemented. Unfortunatly it is harder for users to find them. Glad to hear that documentation is getting attention. My biggest trouble with a lot of open

I agree with the VM recommendation. KiCad does an amazingly good job of opening older files, but there can be some discrepancies. Here are screenshots of the gerbers of a design that was originally

At the moment, some of these features are only discoverable by asking how to do a certain thing in a community of other users (or seeing it done on a forum post / video / etc). We definitely need

Thanks. I didn't know about this feature, but I tried it in 6.0.9, and it does work. The other method of a "Common" net class with a zero clearance rule I described in another message also works and

It's always worth checking the Gerbers. Best is if you use a viewer that is unrelated to the layout program you're using.

Thanks, that is exactly what I needed.

This appears to be? the field you need.

So, for someone with zero KiCad experience, how do you learn of: ...adding the keywords "net tie"... There are some subtle features/settings that are hard to pickup. How do you get up to speed with

You haven't stated what problem you actually had, but what I suspect happened is that one of the zones didn't connect to one of the pads of your net-tie "frigged component". This is perfectly

The "net tie" KiCad feature is how you make a footprint that shorts two nets without the DRC complaining. In stable KiCad, you create one by adding the keywords "net tie" at the start of the keywords

Not so much being uncritical as unhelpful!. DRC checks should have picked it up I had about ten different boards for hobby use, double sided, and its just not worth looking at gerber files manually

That's what I had created and it worked before but now it does not.

Yes, upgrade to 5 then 6, but in m experience they will have issues with symbol libraries because of changes. I would advise keeping an archived virtual machine with the original version 4 for those

Hi A "net-tie" is not a Kicad feature! Its a PCB design feature/technique to be used when one needs to tie 2 nets in a specific point of the board. It's more common and easy to understand usage is

If I understand what you're trying to do correctly, I think all you need is a net tie footprint.