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[Kristoffer Ödmark <kristofferodmark90@xxxxxxxxx>]

No worries!

As an example, If i layout a group of components, all which require
the powerpaths as in they need acess to 3v3 lines that are used in
other areas of the board as well. These 3v3 lines might be a bit 
annoying to route for certain cases.

As the code is now, since these 3v3 lines are used as an outside 
connection of the sheet, they will be ignored, even if they only connect
between pads on the same subschematic. Say that the connection to the 
global 3v3 net is handled later with a via or something like that.

The same logic applies to all pins that connect outside the block, and 
in some cases the layout of the blocks have a non-trivial routing to get 
the signal out of the block "area", which is what i noticed when using 
these. Hope this explanation made it more clear

With this more aggressive change. It is also more visible from the pcb 
side to where this "block" has dependencies, I also find it easier to 
deselect segments manually, than to select them if the block is not very 
trivial.

Regarding the code violations, I will have a look later when I get the 
time as well.

the GND thing must indeed be a bug, which I will look into as well.

On 07/12/2017 10:30 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> Hi Kristoffer,
>
> I apologize for such a long delay. Finally I had to time to look at the
> patch. I tried it out with a few boards, but I could not really notice a
> difference. I read the code and I think I understand what are you trying
> to do, but are you sure it is the right way to go? Hierarchical sheets
> are frequently used as rooms/channels/duplicated blocks and in my
> opinion selecting items belonging to a sheet should be restricted to
> items unique to the sheet. Would you give a use case where the new
> behavior gives benefits?
>
> Please pay attention to the code formatting, I see a number of
> violations there.
>
> Also, I observed a bug when selecting items belonging to the same sheet.
> If you open complex_hierarchy demo and use the select action on P3 or
> P5, you will notice that all components with a pad connected to GND are
> also selected. I can create a bug report if necessary.
>
> Regards,
> Orson
>
> On 07/11/2017 05:36 PM, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
> > Well, the sheet-selection code was all submitted by me in the first
> > place, It doesnt exist in legacy, so this change to how it works is
> > according to me more inline with what I wanted in the beginning :)
> >
> > - Kristoffer
> >
> > On 2017-07-10 21:06, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > > Kristoffer,
> > >
> > > This appears to only effect the GAL canvases.  Would one of our resident
> > > tool framework experts please take a look at this an see if it makes
> > > sense?  If no one has time, I will try to get to it by this weekend.  It
> > > will take most of the week for me to recover from vacation before I can
> > > take a look at it.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Wayne
> > >
> > > On 7/10/2017 11:21 AM, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
> > > > Hello!
> > > >
> > > > Second bump, I guess I might be the only one who uses the
> > > > sheet-selection then :) My suggestion is to merge this patch in, It
> > > > makes the selection more much more useful!
> > > >
> > > > - Kristoffer
> > > >
> > > > On 2017-06-06 13:44, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
> > > > > Hello again!
> > > > >
> > > > > I understand that everyone is pretty busy, but I would appreciate if
> > > > > someone took a quick glance at this and said what they think.
> > > > >
> > > > > - Kristoffer
> > > > >
> > > > > On 2017-05-03 15:51, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
> > > > > > Hello everyone!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I made a small change to the "select hierarchical sheet" function. I
> > > > > > would love if someone tried this and gave some feedback.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Before the function only selected segments belonging to a netlist
> > > > > > unique to that hierarchical sheet. Now it will use the "select
> > > > > > logical connection" to every segment connected to module from the
> > > > > > subsheet as well. presonally I think it is more useful now, but I
> > > > > > want confirmation if possible :)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - Kristoffer
> > > >
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