Re: [PEDA] Quickly checking sync status between PCB & schematic

[van de Werken, Matthew (DEM, PH)]

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> 
> I can't think of any automated method.  You may be able to 
> use a client 
> basic macro(s) to help automate some of the repetitive stuff 
> but even then 
> I think you will find a lot of hand operations.
> 
> You might be able to use the export to spread functions of 
> both the PCB and 
> SCH to allow you do to all the exports and then use macros in 
> Excel to 
> compare.  You might be able to get adequate comparison 
> between netlists 
> generated by both Sch and PCB.  but I suspect the best test 
> of synch will 
> be using the synchroniser and checking the macros that it 
> creates to look 
> for errors.

Hmmm - lots of pain for Matt it seems...

> 
> Looks to me like a slow painful manual job - maybe with a few 
> Client basic 
> macros attached to function keys to speed things up.

Thanks Ian - I'll look into this.

> 
> I know what you mean about maintaining others stuff - I am 
> doing with some 
> code at the moment, in Delphi (yuk!), written with global 

Could be worse - could be VB!

> variables across 
> many different files (double yuk!), with no concept of OO 
> (triple yuk!) and 
> some truly amateurish coding (yuk^4).  Don't you hate this sort of 
> pick-up-after-others work.

Amateurish coding is ok, because you can understand that someone might not
have the experience to do it the way you might, but I don't like engineers
with many years experience (many more than me) who are still doing a
slap-dash job. Don't get me wrong, the work is top-notch, but his CAD skills
leave a little to be desired.

Cheers,
MvdW

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