Mail Archives: geda-user/2014/08/09/16:24:49
On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 21:15 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> It is on my list of warts ;-)
> Rubber banding should never result in non perpendicular nets. IMHO, it
> would be better to disconnect than to make orthogonal lines slanted.
> The
> disconnect would not go unnoticed, since the disconnected ends get one
> of
> those large, red markers.
>
Yes, but if we manually reconnect the open end we may do it wrong.
> Good rubberbanding would involve a bunch of heuristics. There are some
> non trivial constraints. E.g. new segments should never result in
> shortened connections. Sometimes it is better to introduce an
> additional
> segment in the middle. Sometimes, the segment should be at the end of
That is an interesting point.
Generally on-the-fly netlist generation would be good, to detect
whenever netlist has changed unintentionally by moving objects around.
For gschem that may be no problem -- for me it is currently, I have no
netlist generating code, and it was never my goal to write it, because
PCB can import schematics directly, and for people needing a netlist
export gnetlist is available. At least I will do it not now, maybe
later, after the first working release of.
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