X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <568DFF0F.9090908@iee.org> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 06:00:47 +0000 From: "M. J. Everitt (m DOT j DOT everitt AT iee DOT org) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] A new PCB file format References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:mpX63atToYtifi4q2K+fSWuWHhaWrt+QfbMkVdCJyclHHKeopY6 KaDNFrAlmjC3otBjVE7W/fOUaMe2/VxLR7n0gE91FDq3UdsPFSrANQ1oMbiJLqa0RAOmV0J Hp5mSM3iRxPf0HsTymsBNPlA4GY502KzG41lbooQbM8+uRGJv9kfQuVZRL6XABjog/upWjG HOl3qrJuSAc9yOKsNuqKg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:C4ZkWan1E5U=:MND7IO8vpqyiNiU5BOkAHC 3iUVniFzGNWcCpikb4CEFj2erfJoBPyYKohkViVx5M+fjULn98rOLrRKwRoKljBbuLpxY6ToS oT7qk4RNWw2SEocbMX056I+HaqGO6q36baUILMcpUEDiqLyNPH+3pftXjhNf2xbw7vK/P7Rco P7fpeZ052T6HcFLAUkAXLkPVTqYkxDb6q/BMUJrS6qKKyT3V2W/pgR0wzPxJLIuIbfiogKZNj RUzJUXGOu+Pk/B/hRcZ7gQKle3cmJBKmdKBSTIUSHIaM6USoNKT9QontPP7IMeWOM320ua3Ot PnKC/UPUWFxBOokZUh6Pm/m2WpybfYVDLRyuR2KNEdnZhrZ2pzZHjQ0WDedsZ0UiWGmCut8pl nd9m7Ik25ibv9I9zPRwzVzNB57qEoksI9wbsq6BlOU2T+TX6YmQSwnF/y+lubp52FuQs9AlB9 irhICZXQyiNTqST7VVn396QSa8r3CZgiTXBl6Qgl+9jcpbbUdqNiXsGPYMoDwcKEb1liEiOtn 7zd/crfKXIrC95tIVGzzj4aNXwjvSZz6XE2+4qV1sddtr6o69+c/MkHSr+xpyaU6rG2aPfHk4 IKcWgIu9yJ4+1dqcxKeVSm7pRG5VuNCZXx0xNzfpIQUg8d6b/lzmVJh+7b+vTDU8YfPRwLWLG LfgNq+W9OVlhsKqaSosmJELb+fyQHDZC/5JhcSCQj+xvO4DSqGo8KNVE7ZWQk7m/76Bm8fx7H jUINRby/ELuZND4J Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Sounds like a great idea. DJ do you have anywhere to host a 'suggestions' list for improvements/etc? Should integrate with bug/issue tracker really. Perhaps we need to think around this area if launchpad doesn't serve us efficiently. Marvin - I fear it's probably not a trivial change to make, particularly as you're not going to be referencing files between the programs. Nets would work fine, but I think gnetlist does the "calculation" so gschem hasn't defined the nets/doesn't know what/where they are. Typically when I highlight a pcb trace, I'm looking at the netlist in pcb to see what devices they connect (or should connect) to. It is very difficult to back-annotate changes at pcb level to the schematic in my experience .. you always have to work in the schematic and move through the gnetlist/gsch2pcb chain.. or at least that's the only method I've found to work. Best regards, Michael. On 07/01/16 05:20, Marvin Dickens (mpdickens AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > If your looking at tuning up or otherwise redesigning the file format > for PCB > I would really like gschem to understand the PCB file format and > visa-versa. > What I would like to be able to do is have a PCB layout up at the same > time I > have the schematic for that design up in gschem. If I select any part > or portion > of the layout in PCB that part or portion is visually highlighted in > gschem and > visa-versa. > > This ability could possibly be used as the starting point for introducing > boundary scan and other sophisticated usages of interconnects into > gEDA. I am > thinking verification, design for test, diagnostics and such. In my > world, completing > a design does not retire a project and it would be nice if gEDA > reflected this dynamic. > > Regards > > Marvin > > > > > >