Open Sch & Brd files together

Il 24/02/2010 18.09, Olin Lathrop ha scritto:

KP wrote on Wed, 24 February 2010 11:54

Obviously you would also need a way to somehow revert your selection.

 

You do? Can you explain a reason why you'd ever not want both the

schematic and board open together, once they both exist?

I can imagine only 2 situations when I might want to open only one of

the respective sch or brd files.

1) When I run into some inconsistencies between sch and brd. Then I

would modify the odd file to match the counterpart file. Change the

design (add, delete, rename...) and run Erc until you have fixed the

errors, save both files and you are ok for the future. Suppose all this

can be done having both sch and brd files open, so this might not be a

valid case.

2) When doing some very special modifications. Comes into my mind PCB RF

Antennas. Maybe I want to replace the Antenna on my design. I might copy

it from another brd file and paste to my new design, maybe replacing

what I already have. Rename traces and symbols approprietly and run Erc

to keep sch happy. To do all this I might want to work on brd file alone.

I'd prefer much more that Eagle opened both sch & brd together as

default (if both exist). I'd then just close the one I don't need to

make these low level "hacks" (which I don't promote here).

How Eagle behaves now I can have open sch from one design and brd from

another design (ex. front.sch and back.brd together). Modifying either

of these 2 files would create future Erc errors...

Kim

Il 24/02/2010 18.09, Olin Lathrop ha scritto:

KP wrote on Wed, 24 February 2010 11:54

Obviously you would also need a way to somehow revert your selection.

 

You do? Can you explain a reason why you'd ever not want both the

schematic and board open together, once they both exist?

I can imagine only 2 situations when I might want to open only one of

the respective sch or brd files.

1) When I run into some inconsistencies between sch and brd. Then I

would modify the odd file to match the counterpart file. Change the

design (add, delete, rename...) and run Erc until you have fixed the

errors, save both files and you are ok for the future. Suppose all this

can be done having both sch and brd files open, so this might not be a

valid case.

2) When doing some very special modifications. Comes into my mind PCB RF

Antennas. Maybe I want to replace the Antenna on my design. I might copy

it from another brd file and paste to my new design, maybe replacing

what I already have. Rename traces and symbols approprietly and run Erc

to keep sch happy. To do all this I might want to work on brd file alone.

I'd prefer much more that Eagle opened both sch & brd together as

default (if both exist). I'd then just close the one I don't need to

make these low level "hacks" (which I don't promote here).

How Eagle behaves now I can have open sch from one design and brd from

another design (ex. front.sch and back.brd together). Modifying either

of these 2 files would create future Erc errors...

Kim