| ID: | 3736 |
| From: | ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Sun, 2 Feb 2020 04:17:21 +0100 (CET) |
| Subject: | [pcb-rnd] new: import schematics rewrite |
| replies: | 3796 from ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
Hi all, after spending about 25 hours on this, I have more or less finished the first version of the new import schematics feature. Since majority of our users work from schematics and most of them use import schematics for forward annotation, this affects almost everybody. You are very likely affected too. Please read this mail and the material linked below. *** THESE CHANGES MOSTY LIKELY AFFECT YOU. *** This part of the code was a real dark corner. It really needed a full rewrite. I plan to remove the old code later in this cycle so please test the new code ASAP. Unfortunately the only way to clean up the mess was breaking backward compatibility in a few places. I tried to make the transition as painless as possible, I think it will be not that bad for most of us, but please prepare for the following changes: - some menus and action names changed - the most common flow, gnetlist, has only a very small change and the code usually will automatically switch over the configuration on the first import with the new code (but we also have a GUI where you can check and chaneg the configuration, see the links below) - the exotic, very rarely used make based import needs some tuning, even in the Makefile, but we have detailed doc about that (see the links below) - since the old code could not import any other format or from any other external software, the rest of the changes will affect other flows/formats only the good way: they became available for easier, single-click import In return we got a much cleaner, easier to maintain code, more modularity and major feature improvements on all parts. There are three documents dealing with these changes: 1. Overview on what happened and why and what benefits we get: http://repo.hu/cgi-bin/pool.cgi?cmd=show&node=isch_overview 2. a howto for easy switch from the old import schematics to the new: http://repo.hu/cgi-bin/pool.cgi?cmd=show&node=isch_switch 3. a document about the new placement/removal configuration: http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/user/09_appendix/action_details.html#elementlist The last one attempts to fix our long standing problem with how new subcircuits placed in an import and excess subcircuits after an import should be handled. It provides multiple options with an internal structure that makes it easy to extend. If anyone shows active interest, I can make script binding to this so you can write an user script for placement and removal strategy. As an user I find the "frame" method of placement and "list" method of removal the best combination. While being there, I've also fixed a bug we had: the nonetlist flag on a subcircuit makes sure it is not scheduled for removal in an import. This is a good alternative to "no refdes" subcircuits. Please test the new code and report any bug or srangeness. Best regards, Igor2
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