Hello, Dino! I was just watching your video. Spreadsheet editing seem extremely useful to me, especially when creating and verifying big designs as well as refactoring/reusing older designs.
Some other tools call these features "table based design entry" (of the whole design). So, even connections (nets) might be added and manipulated via a spreadsheet. Just to save some clicks, it could be good to get rid of the tabs in the dialog-box and show the "Advanced" "Simple" and "Common" all in one dialog. Also, an undo function could come in handy. :-) Thank you for your work! Regards, Clemens On 2016-11-06 18:44, Dino Ghilardi wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I had to edit a lot of components in a schematic and doing it one-by-one > was a tedious task without a chance to copy a field > (as footprint) to many components in a single operation. > > To make this task easier I've made a new tool that I'm using now. It > makes easier to select a particular group of similar > components and copy a field from one to others. Here are some features > implemented: > > -Shows the components in a 'spreadsheet-like' grid. > -Can filter basing on one or more field values using a 'column filter' > -It uses also regular expressions on fields to have maximum flexibility. > -It has some 'easy' buttons to make easy to use the tool also for who > does not know the regular expressions syntax. > -Selecting a component on the schematic highlights the line for that > component in the grid. > -Selecting a component in the grid moves the cursor to the component in > the schematic. > -Columns can be moved and hidden. > -Changes can be undone using the 'undo' function in the schematic frame > > A video (no audio) of this tool is available at: > https://youtu.be/QCMddxkKe8k > > If it makes sense, I can start to 'beautify' the code (aka re-read all > and check code style policy) and create a patch to send to the mailing > list, so I'll wait to hear if it is a good idea to go on developing this > tool or not. > > Cheers, > Dino Ghilardi. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
