Hi James, > Yep that functionality is being used as the basis for a new dockable > version, with improved searching / grouping.
Great! I'm curious to see what you can come up with. In particular w.r.t. the searching/filtering/grouping, especially the grouping. The grouping functions that I've put in there are a bit difficult to grasp. What I needed was effective end-to-end length tuning of 16+ bit bus across different networks and through some damper resistors. I hope you can come up with a more user friendly UI for things like that :) Best regards, Oleg Endo On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 07:53 +0000, 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers wrote: > Hi Oleg - Yep that functionality is being used as the basis for a new > dockable version, with improved searching / grouping. > > Glen - Likewise very comfortable with how Altium handles signals, but need to > be careful to do things from a 'solving problems' perspective, rather than a > 'like this product does'. It's all good information to feed the design > process though. > > Yours, > James. > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 02:50, Oleg Endo <olegendo1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 2024-02-26 at 19:03 +0000, 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers > > wrote: > > > > > > 2. A 'tuning inspector' (dockable widget, like the properties inspector) > > > which shows in real-time the state of any length and / or skew > > > constraints against matching or chosen nets. This would be particularly > > > useful for tuning net skews on large collections of nets. For example, I > > > currently run a hacky python script which queries the board layout every > > > few seconds to calculate the length of defined nets and displays this in > > > the terminal. Issues to consider: > > > a. As far as I can see, the algorithm to match PCB geometry items to > > > a constraint rule is weaky quadratic (O(Num_Rules * > > > Num_PCB_Geometry_Items)). Running this in real-time would potentially be > > > a performance killer, so need to consider some way to choose a set of > > > constraints / matching nets to watch. Would also need to be updated on > > > DRC rule changes, and need to monitor items being added to / removed from > > > the board (do hooks exist for this, or do we need to regularly > > > recompute?). If watching for board changes is a pain, thoughts include > > > running any processing in a background thread and re-compute every (for > > > example) 1s. > > > > > > > You might want to have a look at the net inspector dialog. I needed a > > similar functionality a while go to get a design job done, so I rewrote the > > net inspector dialog to be non-modal and updating the trace lengths in real- > > time as they are being placed (after dragging, not during dragging). > > Perhaps it could give you some ideas. > > > > Best regards, > > Oleg Endo > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "KiCad Developers" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/2e03e6de7f488edfa669deadb8aa2281104440d6.camel%40gmail.com. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAMVX%3Dtaii5BAc%3DarQ1WEYFRXhN35AB016pYytt5ZN5XOWLDzEw%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/b56852dbf1e445d1ab5e7938e363f940f0cb9b11.camel%40gmail.com.
