Eeschema now keeps its internal net state up to date continuously, but I didn't work on any continuous syncing to PcbNew. The way it works in Eeschema, the graphical schematic is still the driving source of truth; the netlist does not drive the schematic.
-Jon On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 9:08 AM Ian McInerney <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought that was part of the connectivity stuff that Jon was working on > (it certainly wasn't me, and I don't know if there is another Ian > contributing code right now). I remember seeing some email threads on > real-time updates to the information in Eeschema. > > The wishlist item that Wayne mentioned is [1]. Brian filed that a while > ago because he had created a tool to do the back annotation based on the > geography of the board. I don't know where he is with porting it into the > KiCad codebase right now, but you should definitely reach out to him and > coordinate work so that you don't duplicate effort. > > -Ian > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1748205 > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 1:47 PM Simon Richter <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 08:26:52AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> >> > > May I implement some back annotation feature from PCB to schematic? >> >> > You are welcome to contribute to KiCad. I suspect it will not be as >> > easy as you think it will be. Complex schematic hierarchies (using the >> > same schematic more than once in a design) always trips up new >> developers. >> >> I dimly remember that there was some work (Ian did that IIRC) to make the >> netlist the master document and attach the schematic and PCB information >> to >> that, with a first patch to keep the netlist up-to-date continuously. >> >> It would probably make sense to join that effort, because any other >> solution would conflict heavily with that. >> >> Simon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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