Hi Wayne, Thanks for your email. I did some changes in kicad source code with the below source files, it mainly focuses on some copy/paste. After a simple check, my code seems to work that adding more 34 copper layers in KiCAD.
Could you please kindly check if those files are enough? [image: image.png] Sincerely Liang On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 00:45, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Liang, > > The LSET object is merely where it's possible to add new layers but doing > so will not be helpful and possibly harmful if you don't understand how > layers work internally. Virtually every object on boards and footprints > has to understand what the layers mean in order for them to work properly > and the tools used to create and edit them. This doesn't include all of > the DRC and UI changes that would have to be updated for the layer > changes. I don't see this feature request being done by anyone without > years of experience with the KiCad code base. It is a major undertaking. > It's on the development team's list of new features but it's not one that > is requested very often (there are just not that many users that require > more than 32 copper layers) so it may not make it into version 8. > > Cheers, > > Wayne > On 2/22/23 9:47 PM, Liang Jia wrote: > > Hi Stefan, > > Thanks for your reply. > Our products are for chip tests. > > I already know the limitation for KiCAD and this ticket. > > I want to know if I try to add more layer support in KiCAD, which part of > the source code should I pay attention to? bitset for LSET? > > SIncerely > Liang > > On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 at 18:06, Stefan Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Liang, >> >> There is already a wishlist's gitlab ticket for this >> >> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/7232 >> >> You might give a thumbs up there ;-) >> >> And BTW. 50 copper layer, really? >> I am curious what are you designing? >> >> As you can see here >> https://docs.kicad.org/7.0/en/pcbnew/pcbnew.html#capabilities >> >> > KiCad is capable of creating printed circuit boards with up to 32 >> copper layers, >> > 14 technical layers (silkscreen, solder mask, component adhesive, >> solder paste, etc), and 13 general-purpose drawing layers. >> >> So when you don't need 50 copper layer, there might be already enough >> layers ;-) >> >> Best regards, >> Stefan >> >> [email protected] schrieb am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2023 um 08:18:46 >> UTC+1: >> >>> Hi Dear KiCAD Group, >>> >>> We want to use KiCAD for our products, but we found one limitation which >>> block us. >>> The max copper layer is 32 now. but our products need more than 50 >>> layers. >>> I searched the group, there are not related information, so I start this >>> conversation. >>> >>> I have two questions? >>> 1. Why there is only 32 layers in KiCAD? >>> 2. If we want to adapt the code of KiCAD to support more higher layer, >>> Is it possible? >>> Which point we should take care? >>> >>> Sincerely >>> Liang >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAE0Ak8aJeP3F%2BbPgkJveQR_BThu2F%3D-T9kh63UnLBi5fti7DxQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAE0Ak8aJeP3F%2BbPgkJveQR_BThu2F%3D-T9kh63UnLBi5fti7DxQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/42d3e1b6-4fa2-b04e-4dc2-c11bfa9844dd%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/42d3e1b6-4fa2-b04e-4dc2-c11bfa9844dd%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAE0Ak8b_kU0E%2BJTaW_kfxiqx08xH9k5Me9DTc8pr91OjQNynrw%40mail.gmail.com.
