Markus Hitter <[email protected]> writes: > Am 18.01.2011 um 01:56 schrieb John Griessen: > >> I thought about this some more after sleeping last night, and what >> Markus >> is probably asking for is a position range sensitive diff or auto- >> merge. >> >> When people make changes in PCB that can be merged, it means they are >> working in different places, zones, quadrants... IOW if you could >> say easily *where* you were working was different and not overlapping >> another's work, an auto-merge would work -- if it only over-rode >> layout >> traces and footprints in the limited zone of the change made... > > That reminds me on an idea discussed here a few weeks ago: drop the > current footprint logic and replace it with full fledged circuit > layouts. You'd edit the sub-layout in it's own file and insert that > into the total layout as a non-editable, but movable block. > > One possible drawback for both ideas: you can't route tracks through > the "foreign" area/sub-layout, even if there's enough room after > assembling the zones.
Why do you need that limitation? > > Markus > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter > http://www.jump-ing.de/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user -- Stephan Böttcher FAX: +49-431-880-3968 Extraterrestrische Physik Tel: +49-431-880-2508 I.f.Exp.u.Angew.Physik mailto:[email protected] Leibnizstr. 11, 24118 Kiel, Germany _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
