Re: gEDA-user: moving slotting to pcb?

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Armin Faltl wrote:
> John Griessen wrote:
> > The drawing suffixes could be .sch and .ckt.  If schematic is what 
> > someone
> > enters, the .ckt file is just that same drawing with the extra details
> > stripped out. 
> If you want your circuit file as sort of "header" (in C-speak), and one
> can start with a schematic (C-file) and is not forced to use a circuit,
> maybe you have my sympathie.
> > If you stretch a wire in one, it stretches in the other,
> > but values, packages, and pin numbers don't "stick" in the circuit view,
> > only in schematic view?
> Reads like the  attributes are left in place when you move a symbol.
> And sounds like a recipe for total chaos. 

Yes, as it is now, attributes don't stay with a wire when you stretch it.
These ideas would require lots of new functionality to work.  Symbol
editing in place is conceivable, but beyond what I was thinking.

Otoh, if you mean, that one
> might move pins around on a symbol in the schematic, to avoid crossing
> nets, that would be really cool.

Moving pins around to make layout easier is one of the motivations
for pin mapping.

John
--
Ecosensory   Austin TX


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