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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

This sounds good, but I wonder why this is not invoked from pcbnew
instead. Can you explain this design decision?

(I have not tested the patches yet)

2015-06-22 17:58 GMT+02:00 Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> One of the biggest annoyances of Kicad (to me) was the PCB forward
> annotation process. The attached patch set attempts to improve this by
> adding an "Update PCB From schematics" option in eeschema when Kicad is
> open in Project Manager mode. The way it works is:
> - press F9 (or select Tools->Update PCB From Schematics) in eeschema
> - a window with changes to be applied to PCB will appear
> - you can check for errors/warnings/review what is going to be changed
> - click "Perform PCB update" or press Enter to proceed (or cancel).
> - netlist updates can be undone (Ctrl-Z restores PCB state after wrong
> netlist load).
>
> Best,
> Tom
>
> PS. Henner, thanks for the inspiration by sending your UX improving
> patches ;)
>
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