Whilst I applaud the effort, could someone explain why this is preferable to the scripting flow? I agree you need to do pin-planning and possibly play with con

Whilst I applaud the effort, could someone explain why this is preferable to the scripting flow? I agree you need to do pin-planning and possibly play with constraints, but all of that is possible from a post-synthesis design checkpoint. The advantage of OOC flow is it's scriptable, reproducible, you can parallelise different place and route strategies if you're really stuck. This advice about IP in out of context mode is good though - you need that whether you're scripting or using the UI. The only thing that really grinds my gears about source control is that checkpoints are 50-100MB, so it's not great if you want to incrementally place and route (which is often a nice time saver)