| ID: | 3914 |
| From: | ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Sat, 4 Apr 2020 07:06:10 +0200 (CEST) |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] drc_query news and plans |
| in-reply-to: | 3913 from Britton Kerin <br...@gmail.com> |
On Fri, 3 Apr 2020, Britton Kerin wrote: >On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 8:36 PM <gedau@igor2.repo.hu> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> (if you ever run the DRC, this definitely affects you) >> >> new features since the last announcement: >> >> - you can run any drc rule individually, by hand, by clicking on the run >> button either on the drc rule list dialog (accessible from preferences >> drc via a button) or from the rule edit dialog (accessible from the rule >> list via the edit button) >> >> - you can edit any rule and interactively test how it performs and save >> the result. Note: like with some parts of the preferences dialog, if you >> use the GUI to save rules in your config, it will need to make a copy of >> the whole drc rule list; i.e. if you edit and save a drc rule in your >> design (board file), all drc rules will be saved in your board file. This >> is a GUI limitation. You can always edit your config (even within your >> board file) to make your drc rules inserted without having to copy the >> whole list. > >Are things like these above two points making it into user-visible docs >somewhere or should I be saving them all to my own list of pcb-rnd >tips 'n tricks? Our doc on GUI specifically is thin. One of the reasons is that most of these are easy to explore. (The other reason is obviously our very limited resource available to writing doc: I focus my doc-time on the harder-to-pick-up part, e.g. query language syntax & grammar and tutorials on how to develop a meaningful drc check query script.) You should definitely save it in your list, if you already maintain one, independently of what official docs we write later. If you are willing to learn the development processes in pcb-rnd (including the team work model, svn, local documentation customs like hand written html1.0), you could also help extending our official doc. Regards, Igor2
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