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How to assign VIA to a net name?

mizzihood
mizzihood over 13 years ago

Hello,

I'm having problems with adding/naming Vias. I select the "Add via", then "by geometry", specify it's geometry and put (click) it over an existing net. The problem however is, that the Via isn't connected to the net. The attribute window says it's net is _NULL.

I acquired the property value with:

>dbGet selected.net.name

and it returned _NULL as expected, however the counterpart command

>dbSet selected.net.name desired_name

returned "Attribute 'name' of object 'net' does not have set permission .....", which makes sense, sinse the attribute window didn't allow the change either. 

The question therefore is how to tell a VIA that it belongs to a particular net, apart by crossing nets orthogonally?

 

regards 

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    RaylonS over 12 years ago

    Thanks again for working with me on this :)

     Screenshot shows post command entry response and my cursor hovering over a via on the net GND

     You're right though, in most cases I wont want to change very single via of a certain net, but my hope is once I figure this out, I can select vias with a different method and still apply the net change to them just the same. One step at a time...

     

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    RaylonS over 12 years ago

    Thanks again for working with me on this :)

     Screenshot shows post command entry response and my cursor hovering over a via on the net GND

     You're right though, in most cases I wont want to change very single via of a certain net, but my hope is once I figure this out, I can select vias with a different method and still apply the net change to them just the same. One step at a time...

     

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