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On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> Your basic idea is good. It would make sense to have a common core for 
> mechanical and electrical cad.

This is the idea behind Xi[0].  It is a common core which can be used for 
mechanical cad, layout, and schematic capture.  This would also solve the 
key binding problem, plus it would feel much more integrated. ;)  The dock 
attribute editor you suggested is already implemented in Xi.

What's missing is basically the domain specialization; I'm currently 
working on that.

Roland


[0] http://hedmen.org/xi/