Hi! This is my first message to this list, so let me introduce myself.
I live in Vienna, Austria, so please be lenient with my English. I am a SW developer since 24 years. I am working in the telecommunication area since my first contact with SW. In the beginning assembler and then in C/C++. Currently my daily business is Kernel driver developing and I did the design and implementation of the communication protocol of our system. The latter in C++. And yes, I am a girl and maybe the first girl in the team, when I look to all the team names ;) I am completely new to KiCAD, but I want to add some features, which I thing are missing. I know Autocad Inventor and a little bit of Eagle. And why I am starting with the module editor although I have no practice with KiCAD or board development? Because I work on diving equipment in my spare time and need a PCB. So I needed an EDA tool. I selected KiCAD, because it is the best Open Source tool and I like the Open Source thought. During my first tests I came quickly to the point to dram a new part and so I found some missing issues in the module editor. I started to compile the testing version and was surprised with new things. I liked the new feature to show the solder mask and other layers in the module editor in the 3D Viewer. The problem: I wonder why the solder mask was so big. It was illogical for me that the size wasn't changed with the settings dialog. Moreover, after setting them and program restart, the size was still the same (default). So I tracked it down to the design settings and here to m_SolderMaskMargin, which is initialized with its default in any case. The default comes from moduleframe.cpp/181, where a new board is allocated. Is there any reason, why it doesn't use the settings from the current board? Once the module editor board is allocated, it uses always the same empty board. This means the values are never changed. Any hint if I shall try to add this feature and how would be the best way to do it? I mean, how the core developers would like to see this implemented. BR Jasmin _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
