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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Jun 22, 2015, at 8:58 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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).

I like this a lot, and I think this will go a long way towards stopping the bitching and moaning by various people on various forums who for whatever reason think it’s too many steps to export a netlist from eeschema and then import it into pcbnew.

-a