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On Oct 23, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Stephen Ecob wrote:

>> 
>>        In a related question: is it possible to include hints for routing
>> and placement in the schematics? For example:
>> 
>> - this decoupling capacitor should be placed as close to this chip as possible
> 
> Similarly: the idea is a good one, it has been suggested before, but
> no one has coded it up.
> IIRC gschem can add suitable attributes to nets, but PCB doesn't have
> any code to act on net
> attributes.

Unfortunately, while gschem can attach arbitrary attributes to nets, gnetlist cannot retrieve them. I believe all of the various import strategies PCB uses work through gnetlist.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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