I think it will be extremely useful especially as the designs become more complex. Even while working recently with a board with < 200 components I was thinking of creating a similar tool to help manage things.
- Cirilo On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 4:44 AM, Dino Ghilardi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I had to edit a lot of components in a schematic and doing it one-by-one was > a tedious task without a chance to copy a field > (as footprint) to many components in a single operation. > > To make this task easier I've made a new tool that I'm using now. It makes > easier to select a particular group of similar > components and copy a field from one to others. Here are some features > implemented: > > -Shows the components in a 'spreadsheet-like' grid. > -Can filter basing on one or more field values using a 'column filter' > -It uses also regular expressions on fields to have maximum flexibility. > -It has some 'easy' buttons to make easy to use the tool also for who does > not know the regular expressions syntax. > -Selecting a component on the schematic highlights the line for that > component in the grid. > -Selecting a component in the grid moves the cursor to the component in the > schematic. > -Columns can be moved and hidden. > -Changes can be undone using the 'undo' function in the schematic frame > > A video (no audio) of this tool is available at: > https://youtu.be/QCMddxkKe8k > > If it makes sense, I can start to 'beautify' the code (aka re-read all and > check code style policy) and create a patch to send to the mailing list, so > I'll wait to hear if it is a good idea to go on developing this tool or not. > > Cheers, > Dino Ghilardi. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
