A small paragraph ahve been added to the getting started section describing the v5 and CERN road map.
2016-07-07 9:33 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com>: > On 7/6/2016 1:38 PM, Jon Neal wrote: >> It took me a solid 15 minutes of searching to find the roadmap, so >> hopefully I'll do someone a favor and provide a link >> here: >> http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-doxygen/ws/Documentation/doxygen/html/v5_road_map.html > > It's probably not obvious that the road map is part of the developer > docs. Would one of our fearless website devs add a link to the version > 5 road map in the developers page? > > Thanks, > > Wayne > >> >> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:07 PM Cirilo Bernardo >> <cirilo.berna...@gmail.com <mailto:cirilo.berna...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi Wayne, >> >> Thanks for the heads up on where to find the roadmap; I'll have a good >> look through it. >> >> Getting an MCAD plugin before FOSDEM would be challenging. I could >> shoehorn yet another exporter in a matter of days but a working plugin >> system would require some thought on how to expose some of pcbnew's >> internal data to a DLL. I have a working external tool based on OCE >> and it works ok for exporting STEP assemblies but there's something >> wrong with my IGES export - but that's OK since STEP is the better >> model to use. OCE itself is happy to read IGES files and write them to >> a STEP assembly, it's only my IGES export which doesn't work. >> >> - Cirilo >> >> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Wayne Stambaugh >> <stambau...@gmail.com <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Funny you should ask Cirilo since your name came up about the 3D >> model >> plugins. The current road map version 5 is published as part of the >> developer documentation which is available on the KiCad >> website. In the >> road map there is mention of support for exporting to STEP >> and/or IGES. >> Any chance that you could provide a plugin for either one of >> these or >> both by FOSDEM 2017? It would be a nice feature for users to >> directly >> export boards and footprint models to a format that can be used >> directly >> by FreeCAD and less than free CAD tools for mechanical design. >> Maybe >> you could get some help from Mario and Maurice. If you don't >> think this >> is possible, please let me know so I can update the road map. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Wayne >> >> On 7/5/2016 4:07 AM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: >> > Is there a pre-commit version somewhere where we can see what's >> > on the roadmap? >> > >> > I want to work on a PCB API so that pcbnew importers/exporters >> > can be turned into plugins and I can add an MCAD exporter, but >> > given my free time and the size of the job I wouldn't expect it to >> > be ready for FOSDEM 2017. >> > >> > - Cirilo >> > >> > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Wayne Stambaugh >> <stambau...@gmail.com <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com> >> > <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>>> wrote: >> > >> > I spent much of yesterday discussing and finalizing the stable >> version 5 >> > road map with everyone here at CERN. I will be committing the >> revised >> > road map soon. Before I do, I want to make sure no one is >> working on >> > anything outside the road map that I do not know about. If >> you are >> > working on new features that are not in the version 5 road >> map, please >> > inform me of what you working on and whether or not it will be >> ready to >> > release by FOSDEM 2017. If it will not be ready by then, >> please do not >> > commit it to the product branch and keep your changes in you >> own >> > development branch until after I create the stable release 5 >> branch on >> > launchpad. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > Wayne >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> >> > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net>> >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
