Rick Collins wrote: > At 11 >> > Is there a need to generate the entire panel in the layout >> > program? With a little effort, the panel could be viewed without >> > actually duplicating all of the tracks and components. Then other >> > items could be added to the panel such as global fiducials. >> >> You can add fiducials, positioning holes, project codes, test objects, Cu >> surrunding areas to the panel PCB. They are mainly used only in mass >> production, but why not to do it, whet it is only a few line of perl >> code? ;-) > > I'm not saying that anything should *not* be done. I am just saying > that there is a need for a simpler method (built into the main tool and > part of the board file) of duplicating a single design along with > fiducials as this is all that is most commonly needed for production > work.
This kind of thing may not get coded in c as a plugin with GUI features unless you do it. It cries out for a simple menu and key binding that runs a perl script that modifies the .pcb layout, saves a backup, and reloads the .pcb file created as the current one. John Griessen PS I might get around to making a pcb panel template with fiducials in January 2009. Fits my ideas well. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
