gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

[Dan McMahill]

al davis wrote:

>>*  Finally, how should PCB behave with a hierarchical
>>schematic?
> 
> 
> Right click on a symbol, select "go inside", and another drawing 
> opens up showing what's inside.  gschem also should act this 
> way.

I think what you want is by default for each cell to be an entity that 
you can grab and move around.  The ability to visually toggle all 
hierarchical instances between the contents and a box is fairly useful. 
  If you want to edit the contents, you have to descend into the block 
to edit it.  You almost certainly want a mode where when you descend you 
only see that block in its zero rotation as well as an edit in place 
mode where you edit the block while all the rest of the board is 
visible.  I'm saying this based on having done quite a bit of 
hierarchical layout in the ic world.  Haven't done it in the board world 
although I've wished for it a few times.


-Dan