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Re: Proposed roadmap changes

 

Not sure how you would turn this into an effortless feature, but a few
months ago I’ve designed just that, replicated channels using the same
subsheet, on layout I did it once, then copy pasted and manually renamed
each component based on each channel number component.

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:42 AM Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> > On Mar 5, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Since my day job involves a lot of engineering planning/timelines/etc,
> I've had this rolling around in my head...
> > I started brainstorming some proposed changes to the roadmaps.
> >
> > I am using Google drive because that's what is easiest for me to play
> with; I'm happy to send patches against the official roadmaps if get some
> buy-in for this.
> >
> > Feel free to comment (either directly on the doc or by email) with
> thoughts on this.
> >
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mpxqvxLv497cyfk8KTQijhySSpFxF7ooTtcT_HU86kw/edit#
> >
> > Basically what I am proposing is to put most of the energy into Eeschema
> for 6.0, with changes to other parts of the software basically being
> "whatever people have time left over for".  Everything else has been bumped
> to 7.0
>
> I’ll add one more to the list, clearly it’s a v7 wish … layout “rooms,”
> like the Altium feature. Consider a multi-channel design where you have to
> replicate a layout several times. It would be nice to define the channel
> in, say, a hierarchical subsheet, and the layout knows that it should
> replicate the work you do for one channel across the others.
>
> I realize that this is a completely non-trivial thing to implement, and
> further I recall some discussion about this but nobody had any real good
> ideas about how to do it.
>
> -a
>
>
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