On 01/06/2011 04:28 PM, Karl Schmidt wrote: > As I was placing a new board in PCB it occurred to me that there is a better > way to do this. > > What If the initial placement in PCBnew is based on the location of the > components on the schematic > in eeschema instead of stacked all on top of each other? > > Parts close to each other in the schematic tend to be close to each other on > the PCB - so this seems > it would be a time saver. (Particularly on SMD work the placement tends to > echo the schematic > layout ). > > I've used the auto-place, but not with very helpful results. I'm wondering if > the auto-place might > work better with this initial placement idea? Seems like it would be pretty > easy to implement - > just pulling the placement from eeschema - perhaps multiplying the > coordinates by some constant. If > nothing else it helps one pick up one part from many. > > If you wanted to make it a bit more complicated, one could support multiple > sheets by adding an x-y > offset for each sheet.
Sounds like the foundation of a workable concept. Dick _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
