Understood. I will work on a user experience proposal on the schematic side, and I agree it makes sense to wait on the PCB side until we are in a better position with DRC code (which I guess might change dramatically as part of V6 development)
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019, 11:52 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > Jon, > > I would be open to a real time error ERC checking as long as it met the > following criteria: > > It can be disabled by the user. > > A sane way to determine when it makes sense to actually start and stop > the real time ERC testing can be designed. I don't want a bunch of ERC > indicators every time I add a couple of new symbols to a design after I > have run the ERC and fixed the initial issues. This would get annoying > pretty quickly. > > On 3/23/2019 5:57 PM, Jon Evans wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to start laying the groundwork for online ERC/DRC. > > > > This means, for example: > > - Objects will know if they have any ERC/DRC errors > > - If objects are edited, associated error markers can be cleared/updated > > > > Eventually, we could add a (optional) mode where new ERC/DRC errors can > > be added in real-time as the user edits. To begin, I'd only be clearing > > or updating existing errors (generated with the offline / batch ERC/DRC > > process we have now). > > > > For the schematic, I think all ERC checking will able to be done in > > real-time once my new connectivity stuff is merged. For the PCB, of > > course there are some DRC checks that are way too slow to be done in > > real-time, but we could explore whether some checks are fast enough. > > Real time DRC testing is a different conversation. From what I've > observed with some of the more complex designs I've tested, I don't > think we are anywhere near ready for this conversion without making a > lot of performance improvements to our DRC code. > > Wayne > > > > > I would start with the schematic ERC since that's where my head is at > > right now, but what I do should be able to carry over to PcbNew in case > > it ends up working well. > > > > Any thoughts on this? > > > > -Jon > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
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