Re: gEDA-user: gEDA on windows

[al davis <ad151@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 12 January 2009, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> Okay, so how would you describe your 'ideal' solution?

How about extending the concept of layers to the schematic?

When I am working on a circuit, I think of power and signals 
separately, so how about a power layer and signal layer?

In an actual implementation, I would not want it restricted like 
this, so just have named layers, where the name is just a 
string.

Make it so layers can be shown or hidden, and so they can be 
shown in colors or shaded.  You could bring a layer to the 
foreground or background.

In working multple devices on a chip, often I don't know which 
unit goes where until the board is laid out.  Actually, often I 
don't know at that point whether it is a dual or quad, or what 
package will finally be used.  Then later the package changes 
and the pin numbers change.

So, we have "design" schematics, and "as built" schematics.  
The "as built" version could be an augmented variant of 
the "design" version, using back-annotation.

You said "ideal".



_______________________________________________
geda-user mailing list
geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user