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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Understood. I will work on a user experience proposal on the schematic
side, and I agree it makes sense to wait on the PCB side until we are in a
better position with DRC code (which I guess might change dramatically as
part of V6 development)

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019, 11:52 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jon,
>
> I would be open to a real time error ERC checking as long as it met the
> following criteria:
>
> It can be disabled by the user.
>
> A sane way to determine when it makes sense to actually start and stop
> the real time ERC testing can be designed.  I don't want a bunch of ERC
> indicators every time I add a couple of new symbols to a design after I
> have run the ERC and fixed the initial issues.  This would get annoying
> pretty quickly.
>
> On 3/23/2019 5:57 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to start laying the groundwork for online ERC/DRC.
> >
> > This means, for example:
> > - Objects will know if they have any ERC/DRC errors
> > - If objects are edited, associated error markers can be cleared/updated
> >
> > Eventually, we could add a (optional) mode where new ERC/DRC errors can
> > be added in real-time as the user edits.  To begin, I'd only be clearing
> > or updating existing errors (generated with the offline / batch ERC/DRC
> > process we have now).
> >
> > For the schematic, I think all ERC checking will able to be done in
> > real-time once my new connectivity stuff is merged.  For the PCB, of
> > course there are some DRC checks that are way too slow to be done in
> > real-time, but we could explore whether some checks are fast enough.
>
> Real time DRC testing is a different conversation.  From what I've
> observed with some of the more complex designs I've tested, I don't
> think we are anywhere near ready for this conversion without making a
> lot of performance improvements to our DRC code.
>
> Wayne
>
> >
> > I would start with the schematic ERC since that's where my head is at
> > right now, but what I do should be able to carry over to PcbNew in case
> > it ends up working well.
> >
> > Any thoughts on this?
> >
> > -Jon
> >
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