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> What  attracted me to Cschem was the promise that it would be workflow
> agnostic. The problem with gschem,kicad and about all other schematic
> capture tools is that they are all designed to be PCB front end tools. You
> can have any feature as long as it would be useful in a PCB tool flow.

Actually at the bottom not that many features are required, basic is simple:
 - Graphical symbols with pins.
 - Possibility to connect pins or more abstract connection points.
 - Buses to bunch together like wires in a cable.
 - Possibility to assign values to objects.

 - The connections will form nets.

Workflow specific:
 - Which graphical symbols should be available.
 - Attribute assignment.
 - Design rule check which may be done online.


> ... Make it modular so that it doesn't become bloated.
The basics above could be used for schematics of many types, electric, hydraulic, some software diagrams like VHDL and probably more.



> > I came to the conclusion gschem is very versatile with quite little
> > missing but something is missing. To add support for different clearances
> > between net a backend would be needed to specify clearances between nets
> > but this only make sense for physical electric circuits. Support to select
> > track width or cable dimension could could be done with the same approach.
> > a netclass or track width attribute could be added to net as is today but
> > it might be better to point the other direction and list the net names?
> >
> >
> Yes, Use Cschem for entry, editing and viewing. Use separate backend tools
> to o the real work.

Yes. There are some differences above but at the bottom it still the same.


> John Eaton
Nicklas Karlsson