15.03.2011 04:16, Clive Nicolson kirjoitti: > A few months ago I had a need to reverse engineer a legacy pcb for which > all I had was the pcb board. > > I looked around for a tool to help me with this and could only find > Deltasoft's > CBR 5.0, then I discovered kiCad ... > > I modified pcbnew (ver 2709) so that I could display an underlay image > of my pcb above the background and behind any foot prints. I soon > discovered that although I could place foot prints corresponding to > those on the pcb I could not easily get back to a schematic in eeschema. > > I then added the following: > > 1) the image underlay code to eeschema, the component editor and the foot > print editor. > > 2) modified modedit.cpp so that I could create components from foot prints. > > 3) modified schframe.cpp and sch_component so that at the press of a > button I > could flip between a schematic of components and a schematic of foot > prints, > with the wire end points following the pins to which they are connected. > Newly placed foot prints are automatically given sensible positions. > > 4) created some components and corresponding foot prints for junctions > and vias. > > 5) some other stuff! > > Some of this code is buggy, incomplete and a little hackish and without too > many changes to the GUI (ie no dialog changes), but now I can edit both a > schematic and it's pcb dual in eeschema. > > I would like to add the following to eeschema/KiCad (not nessecarily in > this order): > > i) layers as in pcbnew. > ii) auto routing of a schematic. > iii) component locking etc as in pcbnew. > iv) some functionally from cvpcb to ease adding footprint names to > components. > v) make images drawable just like lines arcs etc. > vi) copy foot print position and orientation info into the net list files. > vii) make some newly added behaviour controlable via dialogs. > iix) ... > > It is a pity that eeschema and pcbnew (and their corresponding component > and foot print editors) do not share more code and file formats! > > Any interest in this technology? > > Clive
Clive et al., do you have any interest in porting these [1] things to new codebase with some refining and integration? I'm currently in a need of some system level RE (two of three boards smd) and an own free piece of RE:d equipment is on offer for the guy who helps to solve this. -Vesa [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~clive-baby/kicad/reversepcb _______________________________________________ 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
