Open Sch & Brd files together

Silviu Epure schrieb:

I prefere an other way: "I want to make a board, for a schematic. I need 5

datasheet, informations from the boardhouse, and some pictures. I want to be

able to access all this from only one IDE, the one used for creating

boards".

Perhaps you got used to this method because you don't have a

useful/powerful file manager? (This is not meant offensive - but I just

can't imagine doing it that way could be considered as effective.)

We have hundreds of projects organised in a hierarchical tree. Not all

projects contain EAGLE data, and some contain several revisions of EAGLE

files. Of course we have everything that is really related to the

project in that particular project folder - however datasheets or

boardhouse information definitely belongs at other places, since these

are not project related (at least we use the same parts and boardhouses

for more than one project...).

I don't want to open (by hand, one after an other) half of the programs

installed on my HDD to complete this simple project.; I don't want to swim

in backup files to find my 3 usefull files.

You think of EAGLE as a shell, from where you want to process/manage the

whole workflow. I think this is not what EAGLE was developed for. You

should think about using a shell that is meant for exactly this task.

Then you can do everything you mentioned above from that single program.

You activate the /documents/ (not the programs!) and the OS calls the

needed programs to open them, regardless of document type (EAGLE, PDF,

Word, Picture or whatever else). Of course all project related

documents/files are arranged in the same folder (or related subfolders),

so you have them all at hand when you open that folder.

Please take the time to really think about this. I'm pretty sure your

workflow would be much more efficient (and the needed programs much less

bloated) if your concept was more "object oriented" and less "program

oriented" - perhaps after a short time of getting used to it.

Tilmann

Silviu Epure schrieb:

I prefere an other way: "I want to make a board, for a schematic. I need 5

datasheet, informations from the boardhouse, and some pictures. I want to be

able to access all this from only one IDE, the one used for creating

boards".

Perhaps you got used to this method because you don't have a

useful/powerful file manager? (This is not meant offensive - but I just

can't imagine doing it that way could be considered as effective.)

We have hundreds of projects organised in a hierarchical tree. Not all

projects contain EAGLE data, and some contain several revisions of EAGLE

files. Of course we have everything that is really related to the

project in that particular project folder - however datasheets or

boardhouse information definitely belongs at other places, since these

are not project related (at least we use the same parts and boardhouses

for more than one project...).

I don't want to open (by hand, one after an other) half of the programs

installed on my HDD to complete this simple project.; I don't want to swim

in backup files to find my 3 usefull files.

You think of EAGLE as a shell, from where you want to process/manage the

whole workflow. I think this is not what EAGLE was developed for. You

should think about using a shell that is meant for exactly this task.

Then you can do everything you mentioned above from that single program.

You activate the /documents/ (not the programs!) and the OS calls the

needed programs to open them, regardless of document type (EAGLE, PDF,

Word, Picture or whatever else). Of course all project related

documents/files are arranged in the same folder (or related subfolders),

so you have them all at hand when you open that folder.

Please take the time to really think about this. I'm pretty sure your

workflow would be much more efficient (and the needed programs much less

bloated) if your concept was more "object oriented" and less "program

oriented" - perhaps after a short time of getting used to it.

Tilmann