Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/07/13/22:55:59
On Jul 13, 2015, at 8:09 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> Not at all. At the top level of a complicated board you get an
>> incomprehensible wad of lines if you try to diagram it. A table can
>> be much more useful.
>
> Why do people insist on telling me I'm wrong about how *I* do *my*
> tasks? I'm not an idiot and I've done this before. I don't want a
> table of connections.
If the wad of lines is too dense to follow without confusion, what good is it?
> I want something that tells me how the board
> functions, because I'm not the original designer.
Of course. But from the point of view of how the board functions, it really doesn’t matter whether output B-4 is on connector pin 156 or 56. But, you may want to probe it with your scope. For me, it’s a whole lot easier to figure that out from a table than from tracing a line on a dense schematic.
>
>> But why complicate the tool, when the toolkit approach solves this
>> without the complication?
>
> Because not everyone wants to do things your way.
You’re pushing graphics, but then you want tables in gschem, a graphics tool. Make up your mind.
John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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