Rick Collins wrote: > How would you make use of "subnets" that would be useful that you > can't do with just nets?
Of course you can do everything manually in the layout app. Just like you can do any layout without a schematic in the first place. But the schematic serves as a convenient way to memorize all the necessary connections. For more than a dozen parts the convenience becomes a necessity. Same with net attributes. It is easy and intuitive to assign different rules in the schematic. The layout tool will automatically read from the netlist which net should be made fat to accommodate high current. Other may need extra spacing because of high voltage. This relieve the brain during manual routing. DRC will tell you when you err. An autorouter might also benefit if it knows about different minimum rules for different nets. IMHO, this feature would be a great leap forward. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6C0B9F53 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
