On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Brian Sidebotham < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Guys, > > I was recently thinking it would be cool to implement a templating > system for KiCad projects. This means including more than just a > project file as the basis of a new project. > > Particularly for people doing Arduino projects and the like, it would > be very handy to be able to select a template when starting a new > project as a kickstart. The template would be able to consist of any > file type, so could include various schematic files, and a board file. > To make it universal, I think it would be good to include several > templates with the KiCad install, but also have a search path (or > environmental variable pointing to a path) for user templates. > > I see a template as a simple directory of files. It need not be any > more complicated than that. It would be easy to implement, and if the > default project (which now only consists of a project file) were to > also include a schematic and board file, then any issue of a modal nag > box would be eradicated anyway. > > It should be a simple directory wildcard copy and rename. All we would > need to do is define a template structure which could consist of a > simple text file to provide a description of the template, perhaps > possibly with a few images. These description and image files would > not need to be copied to the new project directory so there would need > to be a defined structure and/or naming convention for the template > files. > > Does this sound like a valid proposal? I'd like to add this to the > project, so if it feels like a good direction to move in, we can > hammer out the details for a templating system. > > Best Regards, > > Brian. To me it sounds like a "create project (from template)" wizard, that could be created using the new scripting interface. I would not suggest implementing using scripts instead of file-copies. You could also do stuff like : Create new project -> select/define board size (eg euro card/arduino board/your standard) -> select /define mounting holes -> select/define default width/spacing of tracks (technology) And an option like : take these parameters from existing project... Just a thought, Edwin
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