Karl. wrote: > Hello, > > I use gschem occasionally, but I've not done more than start up pcb and > look at the pretty things, so I may be just be making useless noise > here. Hopefully not. > > > The tools for arranging/dispersing elements in pcb sound interesting - > it has often occurred to me that a desired simplistic starting point > when laying out a board would be if the pcb elements were to be arranged > roughly the same as the schematic elements. Chances are (for me), if > two things are near one another on the schematic, then they'll often > want to be near one another on the pcb. > > This may not really work out for multi-device packages (eg. a good old > quad nand gate), but for simple discrete circuitry it seems like a good > plan. Forgive me if I've just wasted your time by wanting things that > already exist!
I don't believe that it exists and I do believe it would be useful. I hate chasing down the bypass caps when doing an initial placement since I may have a bunch that in reality are interchangeable but I'd rather that the chip/circuit->bypass cap relationship on the schematic be maintained. I.e. if the schematic has C1 by U2 and C17 by U3 then I don't want the layout to have C17 by U2 and C1 by U3 even if I end up with the same final result. -Dan _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user