[Kicad-developers] Local ratsnest

2017-01-16 Thread Maciej Sumiński
One of the features that are available in the legacy canvas, but not in GAL is local ratsnest. Now, we need to decide whether we would like the same functionality in the GAL canvas, or perhaps should it be modified. Do you use it? If so, what are your use cases? Do you think it would be better to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Local ratsnest

2017-01-16 Thread Mário Luzeiro
rs-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua...@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of Maciej Sumiński [maciej.sumin...@cern.ch] Sent: 16 January 2017 16:18 To: KiCad Developers Subject: [Kicad-developers] Local ratsnest One of the features that are available in the legacy canvas, but not in GAL is local ratsnest. No

Re: [Kicad-developers] Local ratsnest

2017-01-16 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
I can see the value in both per net visibility and local ratsnest. Having local ratsnest (the current footprint selected) visibility is handy when placing footprints to minimize the number of signal crossings. Having per net visibility is handy in complex designed so you can turn off nets to preve

Re: [Kicad-developers] Local ratsnest

2017-01-16 Thread Torsten Hüter
Hi Orson,   the usecase for me is information reduction; sometimes you can loose the overview when too much at once is displayed.   For instance if you want to optimize only the placement of a component group, such as a DC-DC converter, the ratnest of other components is uninteresting and cou

Re: [Kicad-developers] Local ratsnest

2017-01-16 Thread Kristoffer Ödmark
Hello! good initiative checking for use cases! I use ratsnest initially to populate the board, checking where everything goes etc. I would like to be able to hide nets like GND and 3V3 since I most often do 4 layers desgin with each of these as an entire plane. Then to be able to select a gro