Re: gEDA-user: Can you spot the selected object?
Oliver King-Smith wrote: > _ > Yes, I was screwing around to see how it would work. Overall I think it > might > be better than the Eagle auto router. Do you recommend using some else? > You might try the shiny, new but not feature-complete toporouter. http://anthonix.resnet.scms.waikato.ac.nz/toporouter/ Unfortunately, this Google-Summer-Of-Code project has been abandoned by the original developer. Even though it is not ready for prime time, depending on your project it may still yield better results than the traditional autorouter. My designs are generally too dense to yield acceptable results with autorouting. See the photo diode receiver in the link above. After all, the cost of the printed board and the enclosing decreases significantly for small size layouts. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x6C0B9F53 ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Can you spot the selected object?
Has this been done with the traditional autorouter of PCB? ---<)kaimartin(>--- _ Yes, I was screwing around to see how it would work. Overall I think it might be better than the Eagle auto router. Do you recommend using some else? Oliver ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Can you spot the selected object?
Oliver King-Smith wrote: > In Eagle, I could select an object by name, and then "move it" which would > automatically place it under my cursor. This is nice, as I don't have to go > hunting for the object I wish to move. Is there a way of doing this in PCB? Yes, sort of. There is "Select_by_name" somewhat hidden in the select menu. I tend to rip this sub menu off, so I have it ready when needed. The input understands regular expression matching. I find conatenating refdeses with "|" useful. Once the desired object is selected, you can do "Disperse_selected_elements" again from the select menu. This will align all selected objects at the top left of the canvas. They keep being selected. So you can drag them to some other place. This technique helps a lot with placement of larger designs. > I have attached an example. Has this been done with the traditional autorouter of PCB? ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x6C0B9F53 ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
