On Monday 12 January 2009, Peter TB Brett wrote: > Okay, so how would you describe your 'ideal' solution?
How about extending the concept of layers to the schematic? When I am working on a circuit, I think of power and signals separately, so how about a power layer and signal layer? In an actual implementation, I would not want it restricted like this, so just have named layers, where the name is just a string. Make it so layers can be shown or hidden, and so they can be shown in colors or shaded. You could bring a layer to the foreground or background. In working multple devices on a chip, often I don't know which unit goes where until the board is laid out. Actually, often I don't know at that point whether it is a dual or quad, or what package will finally be used. Then later the package changes and the pin numbers change. So, we have "design" schematics, and "as built" schematics. The "as built" version could be an augmented variant of the "design" version, using back-annotation. You said "ideal". _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user