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Schematic Editor: Different colors per wire #1341
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Hmm somehow it sounds a bit unusual to me since a schematic editor is not a graphics drawing tool 🙈 But it might indeed be useful, I'm not sure. Though maybe I'd implement a color property rather on a per-net basis instead of per-line... |
A per-net color in the schematic might actually be useful, yes! |
Color can identify unrouted nets maybe or even "special nets" (unspecified necessity but who apply a color well know the reason). |
Haha, yes I can completely understand your point of view and may the inventor of shematics turn her/himself in the grave when hearing that people are colorizing shematics. A per-net color would be nice would not know a use case for a per-line color right now (but who am I to judge, just an amateur who has 'drawn' two shematics). |
Huh, that would be really sad to decide against LibrePCB just because of such a trivial feature 🙈 😅
Well, actually I'd recommend to use net labels for that purpose. It makes schematics so much more readable. With colors, I see two problems:
Point 1 is not that critical, just a small drawback. Point 2 is critical, but maybe there are ways to avoid the mentioned problems. One could consider that a black net is "automagically" rendered as white on a dark background, but generally I don't like such logic (tech companies would call it "smart", but in practice such features often don't do what the user expects). |
Net Labels Are perfect in general, just do not show you directly the info, interpret is a must. I'd consider colors just in the SCHEMATIC (while on the screen), obviously different colors have to be unified in case of printing (in this case labels are perfect). My idea should be to have just a small set of different colors paired by it's high-lighted ones for cross-probing (sch and brd). but this is just an idea to identify at least a subclass of lines. (the same can be applied to BUS probably) I like anyway FREEPCB even if I use Cadence etc. |
Hello @ubruhin, Yes, I vote for possibility of change color for selected net (SCH and PCB). Each good feature which is as standard in the others EDA system, is expecting in the LibrePCB. Now or in the future (this is your decision). My experience in the schematic editor: How to solve ? Chaos between color scheme and direct set of the color for some net? |
SUMMARY
For me it would be nice if there is a possibility to change the color of every wire in the shematic editor for better orientation. I'd really like to give data, vcc and gnd wires different colors.
Haven't found any Issues or PR for this (or the feature itself).
SOLUTION
Since I'm new to all of this I only used EasyEDA right now. There you can click on a wire and see the color in the option pane.
When clicking at the color option you will get a color picker.
ps. thank you (all contributers) very much for creating LibrePCB, it looks very good to me (especially the easy library manager). Have a nice weekend.
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