Dear Ian Wilson,
"Ian Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2001-06-08 06:37:09 PM summarized
his opinion:
>On balance, I think I am against being able to edit the pin numbers on the
>sch due to the increased chances of stuffing up a design. I am very much
>for Protel continuing to increase the integrity of the design process even
>possibly at some (minor) loss of flexibility.
>
>Ian Wilson
I agree that fully general pin-shuffling could easily lead to a big mess.
But I think supporting ``gate swapping'' (which seems to be getting rarer) and
resistor swapping in a resistor pack (which seems to be getting more and more
common) would still be good.
Shuffling those around does *not* change any of the wiring on the schematic;
Gate swapping merely modifies the A,B,C,D extension of the reference designator
of that multi-part component. From my user's standpoint, this is an extension of
``back-annotating changes in reference designators'', which is already
supported.
What would be a good user interface for letting me swap gates while I'm looking
at the PWB design ? Um, that might be difficult -- the netlist information that
travels from the schematic to the PWB would have to be extended to carry
information on the various ``parts'' of a component...
Maybe if I used the Crossprobe to jump to that component in the schematic, then
if there were some quicker way to swap those extensions in the schematic and
then update the PCB. Maybe somehow recognize that only that component needs to
be changed, rather than going through the full ``Design | Update PCB''
process....
--
David Cary
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