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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 07:49:33AM -0700, Ouabache Designworks (z3qmtr45 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > That’s my point.  If you ignore the modern 3D MCAD stuff and look at a
> > simple 2D draughting package, like QCad, then PCB layout is just that plus
> > electrical semantics — relationships between objects and layers.
> >
> >
> And schematic capture is a single layer PCB with minimal widths and
> thickness where  lines crossing at right angles do not connect. So we start
> with a common graphics drawing program and add a schematic module or a PCB
> module or a autoroute module  or a 3-D module all on a common base. I'm
> surprised that no one has applied autorouting to schematic capture, That
> would really be usefull.

That's what Silego's GreenPak designer attempts to do, and the results
are not pretty. Probably because there's no snapping.

This said, these small chips are quite fun to program.

    Gabriel