Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-04-08 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Daniel, Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I finally had a chance to test your intra-sheet code. While it does appear to work as advertised, I'm not sure this is the best way to handle the intra-sheet connections. Since it doesn't address the inter-sheet connections, it may confuse us

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-03-02 Thread Nick Østergaard
2016-03-02 23:23 GMT+01:00 Daniel Silverstone : > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 22:54:54 +0100, Nick Østergaard wrote: >> > If you consider the current situation regarding global labels and >> > heirarchical >> > labels as "normal" then nothing I have done in my branch alters normal >> > behaviour. >> >

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-03-02 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 22:54:54 +0100, Nick Østergaard wrote: > > If you consider the current situation regarding global labels and > > heirarchical > > labels as "normal" then nothing I have done in my branch alters normal > > behaviour. > > > > The intra-sheet link elements exist only to allow

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-03-02 Thread Nick Østergaard
2016-03-02 19:03 GMT+01:00 Daniel Silverstone : > On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 22:17:37 +0100, Nick Østergaard wrote: >> > The intra-sheet link elements exist *purely* for ERC reasons, to >> > communicate >> > the explicit intent of the engineer to have a net linked elsewhere on the >> > *same* sheet.

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-03-02 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 22:17:37 +0100, Nick Østergaard wrote: > > The intra-sheet link elements exist *purely* for ERC reasons, to communicate > > the explicit intent of the engineer to have a net linked elsewhere on the > > *same* sheet. > > Thank you for the write up, I now better understan wha

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-03-01 Thread Nick Østergaard
2016-02-29 19:48 GMT+01:00 Daniel Silverstone : > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 17:09:53 +, Kaspar Emanuel wrote: >> I read through your blog post, I will build your fork and test it out if I >> get a chance. > > Wonderful. > >> The extra ERC option seems useful indeed. I am a bit confused about the

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-02-29 Thread Nick Østergaard
Yeah... that one have alos caught me a few times. 2016-02-29 19:50 GMT+01:00 Kaspar Emanuel : > Ah gotcha, I had intra and inter mixed up in my head. > > On 29 February 2016 at 18:48, Daniel Silverstone > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 17:09:53 +, Kaspar Emanuel wrote: >> > I read throu

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-02-29 Thread Kaspar Emanuel
Ah gotcha, I had intra and inter mixed up in my head. On 29 February 2016 at 18:48, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 17:09:53 +, Kaspar Emanuel wrote: > > I read through your blog post, I will build your fork and test it out if > I > > get a chance. > > Wonderful. > > > Th

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-02-29 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 17:09:53 +, Kaspar Emanuel wrote: > I read through your blog post, I will build your fork and test it out if I > get a chance. Wonderful. > The extra ERC option seems useful indeed. I am a bit confused about the > intra-sheet link feature though, is this different from

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-02-29 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 13:18:26 -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > I stumbled across your blog report this morning before your post to the > kicad dev mailing list and I'm having a difficult time figuring out what > your changes provide. The trickybox only seems to provide a visual > symbol for dang

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-02-29 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Daniel, I stumbled across your blog report this morning before your post to the kicad dev mailing list and I'm having a difficult time figuring out what your changes provide. The trickybox only seems to provide a visual symbol for dangling connections where as a label does not. However, the labe

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-02-29 Thread Kaspar Emanuel
Hi Daniel, I read through your blog post, I will build your fork and test it out if I get a chance. The extra ERC option seems useful indeed. I am a bit confused about the intra-sheet link feature though, is this different from global labels? Cheers, Kaspar P.S. Might I suggest a different fav

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-02-29 Thread Daniel Silverstone
Hi, A couple of weeks ago I posted about my intra-sheet links and dangling wire ERC work which I had undertaken in part to see how hard it'd be to hack on eeschema, and in part because it was a set of features I missed from when I used to work in Mentor Graphics' Designview workflow. I have since

[Kicad-developers] [RFC] Intra-sheet links and dangling ERC checks

2016-02-13 Thread Daniel Silverstone
Hi, I accept that this is somewhat out of the blue, and if a more established eeschema person wants to smack me down and tell me that my idea is crazypants then I'll accept a ruling in that manner, but... I used to be involved in electronics at a firm which used Mentor's DesignView flow. Mentor