On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 01:11:15PM -0500, John Griessen wrote: > > Sounds good. Do you imagine constructing a set of objects, (a LISP list > maybe), > that belong to a range after the filters are done, and then doing operations > on it such as sum up number values of capacitance? If you maintain these > ranges > between times and only change them as an object is added or edited, you don't > need > to "run DRC on all" very often... good for DRC as you go with low > cost of computer power. >
Actually, I don't think that's true: Suppose I have a trace whose clearance is set to 2.5mm - if I lay any component too close while the real-time DRC is running, how can it know that it's breaking a rule without re-checking the clearance for every object on the PCB? Andrew _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user