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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/22/2015 1:45 PM, Andy Peters wrote:
> 
>> 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.

Are you willing to bet any money that the bitching and moaning will stop? :)

> 
> -a
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