On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 12:30 AM, Richard Wilbur > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Good grief that took awhile! I'm now completely sold on the >> concept of Computer-Aided Design (I've used some awkward implementations >>before but this was done with pencil, pen, measuring tape, and book spine >> for straight edge). > > ... what... you don't just draw them by hand? :) > > rright. there's no way i'm doing this layout by hand.
God forbid! I had no intention of recommending anyone do the layout by hand. I was doing part of it that way and lamenting the inconvenience. > i'm going to > do something that i meant to do a long time ago: investigate how to > use the DCOM interface to PADS. that *shudder* means installing > python2.7 under windows. > > basically it should be perfectly possible to use the COM interface to > hunt down the tracks by name, and in an *automated* fashion add in > track segments according to the layout you designed, richard. > > what that also means is, if i get it wrong, it's a simple matter of > adjusting the python program to redo it. > > ohh dearie me :) Sounds pretty cool--like a plugin interface for PADS? _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
