parts should be automatically placed on the arduino in pcb view

From irasc...@gmail.com on November 17, 2008 09:08:53

there's no need for the user to have to drag and drop parts onto the arduino when she first switches to pcb view. The parts could automatically be placed on the board (not intelligently placed, just placed).

This is a little tricky if the user doesn't place the ardiuno early. And what if there are parts the user doesn't want on the board?

Alternatively, we could have it be a menu item "place selected parts on the arduino". But I'm leaning toward solving the 90% case, which is that all parts belong on the board in pcb view. And if the user drags a part off the board in pcb view, then don't autoplace it back--equivalent to the way we deal with manually drawn traces.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/fritzing/issues/detail?id=258

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parts should be automatically placed on the arduino in pcb view #258