Re: gEDA-user: PCB feature

["Karl." <kmw1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I use gschem occasionally, but I've not done more than start up pcb and 
look at the pretty things, so I may be just be making useless noise 
here.  Hopefully not.


The tools for arranging/dispersing elements in pcb sound interesting - 
it has often occurred to me that a desired simplistic starting point 
when laying out a board would be if the pcb elements were to be arranged 
roughly the same as the schematic elements.  Chances are (for me), if 
two things are near one another on the schematic, then they'll often 
want to be near one another on the pcb.

This may not really work out for multi-device packages (eg. a good old 
quad nand gate), but for simple discrete circuitry it seems like a good 
plan.  Forgive me if I've just wasted your time by wanting things that 
already exist!


On an unrelated note, I wondered about rectangular selections in 
gschem/pcb - I'm accustomed to using AutoCAD LT, where rectangular 
selections work differently depending on whether you start the selection 
at the left or at the right:

- left-to-right selects all elements completely contained within the 
  selection box (this seems to be the normal gschem behaviour)

- right-to-left selects as above plus anything that crosses the 
  selection boundary.

Assuming gschem doesn't already do this, I think it would be a useful 
addition.

Thanks for reading - I feel better now that I've gibbered  :-)

Karl.
-- 
http://mowson.org/karl


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