# Need Help: DRC Rule Error After Removing severity from the Design Rule – Rules Disappeared

**URL:** <https://sierraconnect.protoexpress.com/t/need-help-drc-rule-error-after-removing-severity-from-the-design-rule-rules-disappeared/3305>\
**Category:** Design and Layout\
**Tags:** kicad\
**Created:** [June 20, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://sierraconnect.protoexpress.com/t/need-help-drc-rule-error-after-removing-severity-from-the-design-rule-rules-disappeared/3305 "2025-06-20T16:03:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![rayansayedpd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@rayansayedpd](https://sierraconnect.protoexpress.com/u/rayansayedpd)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://sierraconnect.protoexpress.com/t/need-help-drc-rule-error-after-removing-severity-from-the-design-rule-rules-disappeared/3305/1 "2025-06-20T16:03:48Z")

</div>

I’m currently facing an issue in KiCad’s _Design Rule Editor_ and would really appreciate your help.

After completing my PCB design, I ran the DRC check. I had added a custom rule earlier that included a `severity` line (e.g., `severity error`). After running the check, I removed just the `severity` line from the rule, thinking it was optional.

However, after that, the DRC editor started throwing syntax errors such as:

- `Unrecognized item 'rule'. Expected constraint, condition, or disallow.`
- `Missing ')'`

also i cant run DRC

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sierraconnect/original/1X/ed63239ee89ef446ce50520f427fcdf4bf2916b0.png)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![abhishek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sierraconnect/user_avatar/sierraconnect.protoexpress.com/abhishek/32/45_2.png) [@abhishek](https://sierraconnect.protoexpress.com/u/abhishek)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 10:23am UTC](https://sierraconnect.protoexpress.com/t/need-help-drc-rule-error-after-removing-severity-from-the-design-rule-rules-disappeared/3305/2 "2025-06-25T10:23:03Z")

</div>

There are syntax errors, last two rules are not closed they should end with closing brackets and every rule name should be inside inverted commas. Kindly check the attached image and update your syntax.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sierraconnect/original/1X/e0ec6e87b8219c391e5ab4d1607964889158e746.png)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![rayansayedpd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@rayansayedpd](https://sierraconnect.protoexpress.com/u/rayansayedpd)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://sierraconnect.protoexpress.com/t/need-help-drc-rule-error-after-removing-severity-from-the-design-rule-rules-disappeared/3305/3 "2025-07-02T16:57:08Z")

</div>

Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve already corrected the syntax