Off Board Connection Support

[davidperrenoud]

From brendan....@gmail.com on February 17, 2009 10:19:17

In the course of talking about modules and various connector parts we have recognized a need for a notion that we will call "off-board connections". This will accommodate cases where you have parts in your sketch that don't actually need to be on the PCB.

Implementation issues:

• Stage 1: need a menu item or option where a part can be flagged as "off-board". these parts should automatically placed away from the board and will only be connected via jumper wires.
• Stage 1.5: in schematic view, "off board" connections would be indicated with a dashed or dotted line instead of the usual solid line.
• Stage 2: connectors can be flagged as "off-board" connections for things like female headers, screw terminals, mil-spec connectors, etc. this means that users can plug a motor or whatever into this connector in the breadboard view but that it will not try to place the motor default footprint on the board in the PCB view. "off-board" connectors should use the same connector svg element as their on-board kin on the PCB svg.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/fritzing/issues/detail?id=581

[davidperrenoud]

From irasc...@gmail.com on April 02, 2009 07:20:35

Will need to check offboard connections and throw an error. Start from each offboard connection (i.e. from each connector labeled "off board")--traverse each wire until you hit a part. Then continue traversing from each part's set of connectors. If the traversal eventually takes you back to a part which is connected to the onboard side of the part containing the offboard connector, then we have an "offboard short".

[davidperrenoud]

From andre.knoerig@gmail.com on April 09, 2009 04:25:17

Cc: johannes.landstorfer
Labels: Component-GUI

[davidperrenoud]

From irasc...@gmail.com on July 02, 2011 01:22:14

Issue 500 has been merged into this issue.

Cc: brendan....@gmail.com

[davidperrenoud]

From irasc...@gmail.com on July 02, 2011 01:22:40

Cc: -brendan....@gmail.com andre.knoerig@gmail.com

[failiz]

I like the idea to have off board parts. However, I think it would be easier to implement as off-board parts rather than off-board connections. In any case, if this enhancement is accepted, remove the imported label.

[failiz]

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