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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 16:41:37 -0400
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On 07/13/2015 04:26 PM, John Doty wrote:
>> Another very useful thing I'd pay for would be the inclusion of an
>>  attribute in gschem which tells PCB "this net needs to be 20mils" 
>> and have PCB automatically handle that.
> 
> Not a gschem issue. Gschem can add any attribute you want to a net. 
> The troble is that the gnetlist back end can’t see it. So, instead
> of asking for a PCB-specific shortcut, please ask to have network 
> attributes visible through the gnetlist API.

  Actually, the functionality I envision IS a gschem issue, albeit a
very minor one.  I've seen a lot of schematics (I think done in Eagle
but I'm not sure) that have something that sorta looks like a lollipop
pointing to a trace, with "20mils" or whatever in the circle.  Of course
I can (and do) attach any arbitrary attribute to anything, and I think
this is one of gschem's great strengths, but there needs to be (IMO) a
bit of GUI work for this feature as well.

             -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA