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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Jun 22, 2015, at 10:47 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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? :)

I think we all know the answer to that question :)

Party on, Wayne ..

-a