Re: gEDA-user: PCB | how to update the pcb, if a change is made to the schematic?

[Ben Jackson <ben@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 01:32:17PM -0800, S. Aguinaga wrote:
> 
>    ** In the PCB, is there a command to move components to a specific x,y
>    location?

Not really, although if you get my "distribute/align" plugin from
gedasymbols you can bind a key to warp the selected elements to the cursor.
So you can set the grid, move to a spot and hit a key to move the element.

>    ** After starting on the PCB, I have to make a change to the
>    schematics, is there a way to update
>    the pcb file? Without affecting placement or All routing?

You run gsch2pcb again.  It produces a board.pcb.new which you load into
your layout (File | Load layout data...) and a new netlist.  Your board.pcb
is unaffected except that deleted components are removed.

I recommend you keep all of your working files under some kind of source
control (RCS, CVS, SVN, etc) so you can save versions of your board before
you do this.

-- 
Ben Jackson AD7GD
<ben@xxxxxxx>
http://www.ben.com/


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