Re: gEDA-user: syncing updates between gschem and pcb?

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@seul.org>]

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From: Xtian Xultz <xultz@projetos.etc.br>

These question is for the PCB hackers: is too much difficult to 
create a option in the menu called "Reload netlist" to reload the
currently loaded netlist file? It would be very interesting, because
PCB does not remeber the location of the netlist file already loaded, 
and to reload I need to navigate over the file tree to go where the 
netlist is...



On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 10:43:19 +0200
Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn@bjerkem.de> wrote:

> On Sunday 08 June 2003 03:05, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > The gschem2pcb script has code for reading the old pcb file and
> > updating it to match the new schematics (as far as elements are
> > concerned).  Then you load the new netlist into pcb and see what it
> > complains about.
> 
> According to "What's new in 2.0" You can add netlist elements in pcb directly. 
> This always happen during evaluation of the PCB. If you find that you need an 
> extra capacitor across VCC somewhere, you just place it in the layout, then 
> name it, then make the "netlist" layer active, then place line from the 
> connetcions of the cap to ground and VCC. Then this new connected element 
> will show up in the PCB internal netlist which can be saved. Now the 
> question: Can this netlist be read back to schematic?
> 
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> Svenn
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