ERC and DRC Report

Improvement Ideas
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Hi everyone,
I’m not sure if there’s already a way to export the ERC and DRC results to a text file. It’s not a critical feature, but it would be quite handy to be able to review the results to a txt file in order to analyze it easily.
At the moment, the DRC window can’t be resized, so it’s not always easy to get a clear view of the reported errors.

Gian Carlo

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Hi,

Yeah at the moment there is no such export. I wonder two things:

  • What would be the exact file format of such an export, e.g. how to separate the messages, how to handle newlines within the messages etc.
  • If it would make more sense to focus on UI improvements (e.g. resizable/detachable lists) if that would make any export feature obsolete
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Hi ubruhin,

a textual DRC report enables workflows that are not really possible in the UI alone.

A text report as the attached from PCAD includes not only the violations, but also the rules used for the checks and if they are enabled/disabled their limits etc…, so it contains the full context of the DRC run, not just the errors. This makes it easy to search for components, nets, or error types, and to attach the report to bug reports or documentation.

I attach a PCAD DRC format as an example.

Gian Carlo

Example_DRC.drc.zip (2.8 KB)

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Alright, thanks for sharing!

Probably it would be a reasonable feature to implement. But at the moment there are a lot of higher priority tasks to do first…

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