fritzing
Import netlist
Problem
So you can have a starting template or puzzle to know what to do
Proposed Solution
I know that a netlist wont automatically give you positions but what I mean is, the pieces of the netlist will constrain your movement, so you be forced to do anything as long as that netlist still holds, like a constrainer, and pieces are connected automatically, yes at first everything will be scrambled, messy, but the user will be able to prettify it, is that possible?
There are several conditions needed for this.
- obviously, the list loading, but that is just the tip of the iceberg
- Right now, a connection is deleted if is not routed in at least one of the views Breadboard, Schematic, PCB. So we would need netlists as an additional internal representation. That affects a lot of places in the code.
- After we have 2., a netlist view and editor would again be not much effort.
Fritzing already has a ratsnest, dotted lines that indicate unrouted connections. So, if you created a sketch only using one of the views, for example the breadboard, you get an unrouted schematic and pcb. @Kreijstal Would loading a sketch that only has connections routed in one of the views work for you? The other views can then be used as the puzzle / template.
In general I think it would make sense to add another representation, like a Netlist view. Right now we can only export netlists in various formats, but we can not read or even edit them, like naming subnets. A similar feature exists in other tools, for example https://forum.kicad.info/t/net-editor-tool-or-plugin/36261
A netlist loader/editor would also help with automated testing and other sorts of scripting. We have requests from visually impaired users to load a netlist, it would allow a bigger part of the work done without vision.
Yeah that's okay for me, but maybe a netlist itself doesn't have the models themselves, so maybe there is an intermediate format, but yeah a solution ir workaround is nice, thank you
I think this is related to https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app/issues/3743
I think this is related to #3743
would be mega nice to see it in breadboard view too