Well, I've run into this problem. I am using a couple of chips from
Cadsoft's library, and they don't show the power pins as they try to
route them invisibly. Well, that's all well and good, but I don't have
my power nets named the same as the chips do, so they won't get
connected on the board. I could just add the traces manually on the
board, but I want to try using the autorouter, and this will screw me
up. Short of remaking the symbols, is there any way to connect the two
nets?

Josh
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Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Eagle will automatically connect a net and any power pins on devices if
> they have the same name.  Personally, I don't like this at all.  First,
> power connections should be shown in the schematic properly.  Second,
> there may be several power supplies, and I don't like the idea that Eagle
> might implicitly hook a chip to one of them.  I always label my power nets
> something like "+5V" to avoid any chance of accidentally being connected
> to pins named "Vcc".  Unfortunately then Eagle insists on complaining
> about a power pin not connected to a net of the same name in the ERC,
> which makes it that much more difficult to spot a real problem.  Argh!

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