Reviving my previous ranting about this subject I wonder if there has been
anything new on the continuous path of hard and software evolution? I'm
noting there is still a large base of following on ancient procedural
programed EDA CAD tools! We have passed lots of important landmarks; for
example OOP (object oriented programming). In the Mechanical CAD world this
has even since Sketchpad (1960s) brought us parametric modeling, which
allows for easy modifications and concurrent modified versions maintained
from one object tree (e.g. Solidworks)!

I am wondering if there is anybody in EDA who has implemented parametric
modeling yet?

What I am envisioning is that, starting from the schematic, components can
be associated with formulas that consider placement options, variations of
product capabilities (for example number of parallel transistors or memory
banks) and eventually associativity to the pads of the PCB (linked to or vi=
a
 spreadsets), BOM and pick and place coordinates generated, etc.
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