For a start I think we should only show labelled nets…. > On 13 Jun 2019, at 21:05, Jon Evans <j...@craftyjon.com> wrote: > > I will let you know once it's a bit farther along. There will be a live > filter (fuzzy matching) to make it easier to find things. > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:04 PM Reece Pollack <re...@his.com > <mailto:re...@his.com>> wrote: > Jon, that looks great! > > How well does that model work when there are hundreds of nets rather than six? > > -Reece > > From: "Jon Evans" <j...@craftyjon.com <mailto:j...@craftyjon.com>> > To: "reece" <re...@his.com <mailto:re...@his.com>> > Cc: "KiCad Developers" <kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net>> > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 2:07:07 PM > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Ratsnest options > > It's coming, Reece! > (obvious disclaimer: this is a mockup and doesn't represent final UI, etc etc) > <image.png> > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 2:03 PM Reece Pollack <re...@his.com > <mailto:re...@his.com>> wrote: > For myself, I see no value to having the Ratsnest on/off in the View menu or > in Preferences. Having it in the left toolbar as well as the Layers widget is > duplicative but convenient. > > What would seriously reduce my use of the Ratsnest show/hide function is the > ability to limit what nets appear in the ratsnest. I'd guess about 1/4th to > 1/3rd of the ratsnest in my designs is GND. These eventually get connected to > internal planes through vias, and seeing these airwires all over the place is > just visual noise. Other big offenders are the various power nets (+3V3, > +1V2, etc.) which I'd often prefer to hide. Eagle supports showing/hiding > nets by name via the command line, and KiCad needs a similar capability. I > seem to recall this being on the roadmap though I could be mistaken. > > Thinking it through a bit more, it might be more valuable to allow > hiding/showing by net class rather than by name. This would make it easier to > navigate in a GUI as there would be fewer net classes than nets, and this > would group similar nets together. > > -Reece > > From: "Jeff Young" <j...@rokeby.ie <mailto:j...@rokeby.ie>> > To: "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambau...@gmail.com <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> > Cc: "KiCad Developers" <kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net>> > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 10:26:38 AM > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Ratsnest options > > So I’ll be the contrary one. > First, I do agree with getting the number of access points down. > > However, I find myself turning the ratsnest on and off a lot. And the > toolbar is /much/ easier than the layers palette for that. > > As far as Preferences, I agree that it’s the right place for curved/straight > (well, actually I’d be inclined to just offer curved, but I already lost that > fight). But why have shown/not shown in preferences? And for that matter > units and coordinates. These aren’t really set-and-forget types of things, > and the options toolbar is both easier to access and more visible for > inspection. > > So how about removing in/mm and polar/cartesian from Preferences (and leaving > them and ratsnest on/off in the options toolbar), rather than moving ratsnest > on/off to Preferences? > > Cheers, > Jeff. > > On 13 Jun 2019, at 14:47, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com > <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 6/13/19 9:35 AM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: > On 2019-06-12 22:50, Jon Evans wrote: > I like that set of options. It fits in to my plan of absorbing as much > as possible from the left toolbar into the layer widget as part of my > overhaul of that part of the UI. > I also think it would be totally fine to have it *only* in the layer > widget, because we don't duplicate the other object visibility > controls in Preferences. > > I like this even better. Single location, placed with all view options. > Anyone have objections to this idea? > > > The "Show ratsnest with curved lines" checkbox fits in to Preferences > (and not the left toolbar) in my mind, because it seems like a "set > and forget" kind of setting, not one that I would toggle on and off > all the time while I'm working on a board (but maybe others > disagree??) > > I tend to agree with this as well. I've placed it in the preferences > for now and I think removing it from the View menu and the left toolbar > is a good idea. Any objections to this idea? > > -S > > I don't have an issue with either of these. > > Wayne > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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