Improved Rule - Broken Net Constraint

Prior to the winter 09 release of Altium Designer the Broken Net rule created one violation per broken net and listed all connected subnet information often making identification of the break a laborious task. The newly improved rule now creates one violation per break (multiple per net possible) and identifies its physical location in a manner similar to the net analyzer. Combined with greatly improved drawing this makes identification of these breaks simple and easy.

Violations will be identified and drawn in one of two styles depending on the nature of the break. Extremely short (or zero length like missing vias) breaks are identified with a circle at the location whilst longer breaks are identified with a line.

Figure 1. A blind via that doesn't extend through to the bottom layer track is clearly identified


Figure 2. Longer breaks are identified with a line between the closest points on each subnet