| Mike Warren
    
 
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                      |  Posted - 26 May 2023 :  09:36:09       
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                      | I'm designing a PCB for someone else and have a situation that would never come up in my own designs. 
 The client wants star grounding, but has named all the star paths as different nets.
 
 I can't just join them together, as far as I know, without them becoming a single net, so I thought I'd make a small dummy component with 2 SM pins and copper between them.
 
 This solves the net joining problem, but obviously creates a large number of DRC errors, because everything is very close together.
 
 I can "Accept" these errors, but the text clutters up the PCB and makes it ugly and hard to see exactly what's going on.
 
 1/ Have I missed a way to join nets while keeping them as separate names?
 
 or
 
 2/ Is there a way to hide accepted errors?
 
 Alternatively, does anyone have another suggestion on how to work around this in a clean way?
 
 
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