On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:13:45PM -0600, John Griessen wrote: > gene wrote: > >> When you lay out your board you get this fun issue that your refdes > >> for a 0402 resistor is about 5 miles long. > > > > Really? I haven't tried this yet - but are you saying the refdes gets > > prefixed with the path? It makes sense for the nets, but not the refdes. > > The path in front is what makes each refdes unique and each refdes is the > whole path to a symbol. If you present a simpler view it just means you > are hiding the complexity somewhere, > and at this point, gschem/gnetlist aren't hiding anything.
Right. This is a prime example of the tools being expert-friendly. It's no sweat for someone like me to add a perl script to the processing chain to rename the resistors in a consistent and design-appropriate fashion. I would even argue that this is a common enough task that one of us should generalize and publish our internal scripts so that non-programmers can also work like this. Adding complexity to the existing tools, however, is probably a mistake. At most, they should have hooks to handle pre/post processing programs. For myself, I will always use a Makefile for that purpose. - Larry _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user