Re: gEDA-user: More strange ideas: Start PCB layout from symbols view

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:41:33 -0800, Ben Jackson wrote:

> The main advantage there is that you could place each component by
> clicking *once* rather than the more laborioius 1) find, 2) click &
> drag.

This is how I delegate the find task to the computer: 

1) Have gschem open on the other screen.

2) do Select -> Select_By_Name -> All_Objects

3) search for the refdeses of a functional group as seen on the 
schematics and separated by "|" characters.

4) do Select -> Disperse_Selected_Elements

5) Grab the selection from the upper left of the working area and drag it 
to some other place.

Although this is an improvement over searching by eye, it is still a bit 
laborious. Two features in gschem and pcb could vastly improve the work-
flow. 

In gschem: Extract the refdeses of all symbols in a selection and output 
them as a one line list separated by "|".  

In pcb: disperse the selected elements and cut the selection to buffer 
and activate the buffer tool -- all tied to a single key shortcut.

If there were real scripting abilities in gschem and pcb, these two 
functions would be my first project. Now, that I think about it, the pcb 
part might already be feasible...

---<(kaimartin)>---
PS: The "|" character is missing in the otherwise helpful description of 
the use of regexp in the pcb manual. 
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