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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:19:40 -0400
From: "Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB interface (ECAD vs. MCAD)
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On 07/13/2015 02:44 PM, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> "Ouabache Designworks (z3qmtr45 AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> writes:
> 
>> And schematic capture is a single layer PCB with minimal widths
>> and thickness where  lines crossing at right angles do not
>> connect.
> 
> Ah, no.  To me, at least.  Schematic capture is about creating and 
> maintaining documentation for a set of objects, their connectivity,
> and arbitrary attributes attached to the parts and/or their 
> connectivity. What a schematic *looks like* is almost irrelevant...
> ;-)

  Heh...until you try to repair something. ;)

  Today's trendy schematics seem to consist almost exclusively of
boxes with netnames attached to pins, and few if any lines.  Just try
troubleshooting something with that, it's almost useless!

               -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA