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["Sergey A. Borshch" <sb-sf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14.06.2019 2:06, Reece R. Pollack wrote:
> Jon,
>
> May I suggest making the net and net class listings two different tabs? I'd 
> rather not have to scroll past a few hundred nets to get to the net class 
> listing. Or two scroll areas on the same tab, though I think separate tabs would 
> be better.
Or, possibly, represent list as a tree view (classes->nets) with ability to 
expand/collapse every netclass?

> Are nets hierarchical by the time they get to Pcbnew, or have they been 
> flattened to a single namespace?
>
> -Reece
>
> On 6/13/19 4:05 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> > I will let you know once it's a bit farther along. There will be a live filter 
> > (fuzzy matching) to make it easier to find things.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:04 PM Reece Pollack <reece@xxxxxxx 
> > <mailto:reece@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Jon, that looks great!
> >
> >     How well does that model work when there are hundreds of nets rather than six?
> >
> >     -Reece
> >
> >     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >     *From: *"Jon Evans" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> >     *To: *"reece" <reece@xxxxxxx <mailto:reece@xxxxxxx>>
> >     *Cc: *"KiCad Developers" <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> >     *Sent: *Thursday, June 13, 2019 2:07:07 PM
> >     *Subject: *Re: [Kicad-developers] Ratsnest options
> >
> >     It's coming, Reece!
> >     (obvious disclaimer: this is a mockup and doesn't represent final UI, etc etc)
> >     image.png
> >
> >     On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 2:03 PM Reece Pollack <reece@xxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:reece@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >         For myself, I see no value to having the Ratsnest on/off in the View
> >         menu or in Preferences. Having it in the left toolbar as well as the
> >         Layers widget is duplicative but convenient.
> >
> >         What would seriously reduce my use of the Ratsnest show/hide function
> >         is the ability to limit what nets appear in the ratsnest. I'd guess
> >         about 1/4th to 1/3rd of the ratsnest in my designs is GND. These
> >         eventually get connected to internal planes through vias, and seeing
> >         these airwires all over the place is just visual noise. Other big
> >         offenders are the various power nets (+3V3, +1V2, etc.) which I'd
> >         often prefer to hide. Eagle supports showing/hiding nets by name via
> >         the command line, and KiCad needs a similar capability. I seem to
> >         recall this being on the roadmap though I could be mistaken.
> >
> >         Thinking it through a bit more, it might be more valuable to allow
> >         hiding/showing by net class rather than by name. This would make it
> >         easier to navigate in a GUI as there would be fewer net classes than
> >         nets, and this would group similar nets together.
> >
> >         -Reece
>
>
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