Hello, Bastian! I like your ideas as well. But this Widget could contain much more information that I would call it i.e. "Design Explorer". You can have your schematics in a tree view covering the hierarchical schematic pages as you suggest. But then you could also browse your design by Components, by Netnames, by Footprints, by Designrules, etc...
And - in the long term view - when people get more into table-based design entry for 200++ pins components (which you won't type and manage by hand...) we could also have links to "externally defined components" to be managed/accessed/imported/exported from this "design explorer". Regards, Clemens On 2017-09-07 12:06, Michael Kavanagh wrote: > Hi Bastian, > > I like this idea. The ability to leave the widget open and have it remain on > top whilst interacting with the schematic will be useful as well. > > Another CAD package I have used has two items under each sheet/block, > labelled "Symbols" and "Nets", where double clicking on it would bring up the > edit dialog. This might be a useful feature to implement for large designs if > its not too much extra work. > > Cheers, > Michael > > On 7 September 2017 at 10:29, Bastian Neumannn <neumann.bast...@gmail.com > <mailto:neumann.bast...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I ususlly work with schematics of around 5 to 15 pages. A3 sized that is. > Using A4 for schematics that easily bloats up to 30 pages. > > For those schematics I am not using KiCad since they are in a > professional environment. > > Given the situation that I am currently working on a big design in KiCad > that reaches up to 40 pages A3 it is a little bit cumbersome to keep track of > subsheets. > > I propose to add more functionality to the hirarchy browser. > > 1. Make the widget dockable so I can easily jump between subsheets > 2. Have empty sheets that do not have to be placed on the schematic for > stuff like: > - Table of contents > - Block diagramms > - Change History & Reviews > - Additional Information > 3. Have the ability to change the order of the sheets. Since I might add > one later on and don't want it to be at the end of the list > > Here is an inclomplete mock up of what a big schematic for a mainboard > could look like. > Inline-Bild 1 > > I am looking for more ideas on what to change. I think some of the > changes will have a big impact so we better talk about a concept beforehand. > > Cheers, > Basti > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp