X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Lz8Q75DL7RiSIZpXB1ZAJoxUh7SLwKM997dhjrBXgCY=; b=A6SoGT0wy5InKyl9HydghI9/sRq2PCjpeiUrNmIm/0WVemCQABXmAb67XAWX3v/hEH /yFpAmtXtTuKI/Qj21DtxOWs3wb41b+4EJvZlFKytDcLV1Gi/KMewBOivsfpzTtfuFG1 PW1MBpAGO7vLE5oLoQEJ4Dcqf9G73I0X4Jcjl9RHxY3oMJjN2vriv8aa88sIcaAAE+t7 KDjyvxDrPBp2Hjw9wpA3XVhjV63f4myYz5boo9BIdV9XNzyH+GPHvKtKxoIV1Rx6pmpN kormZBOFA3t8AKnLc/StbiqtE32lmJ2jFkV+lES6gWKutrlSC4HbvhP3CK2/92Zzqotz KegA== X-Received: by 10.28.179.84 with SMTP id c81mr15170930wmf.30.1452153252878; Wed, 06 Jan 2016 23:54:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:54:11 +0100 From: "Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] A new ... (net higlighting) Message-Id: <20160107085411.b12f8d65c7eb03b683698d84@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <568DFF0F.9090908@iee.org> References: <568DFF0F DOT 9090908 AT iee DOT org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk For net highlighting going for the connected pins instead of netname might be an option? > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > Nicklas Karlsson