On 9/22/2013 7:31 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > The new footprint library table code is pretty much ready for testing. > I need some brave volunteers to help out with the testing just in case I > missed something and I always do. Build KiCad with the CMake flag > -DUSE_FP_LIB_TABLE=ON. I committed the documentation for CvPcb so you > should be able to figure it out. If you get stuck, let me know and I'll > try to answer any questions as soon as I can. It's really not all that > difficult. Please make a back up of your files before you start > replacing the footprint names with the new footprint ID format because > they will not work with the old footprint library look up method. > > I'm most interested in how well the automatic conversion tool works in > CvPcb. It worked very well with most of the KiCad demo projects with > the exception of a few libraries whose file names must have changed at > some point. When you open a netlist with the current footprint names, > CvPcb will ask you if you want to automatically convert them to the new > footprint ID format. If you decline to use the automatic conversion, > all of the footprint assignments will be cleared and you will have to > reassign them manually. Also test back annotating the schematic so the > component footprint fields get populated with the new footprint ID and > then regenerate the netlist using the new s-expression format. You > should be able to import the new netlist with exchange modules enable > and the footprints on your board should not change unless you modified > them after they were loaded into the board. > > There is one caveat. Something is broken with the KiCad Pretty > (s-expression footprint files) file parser. It appears to be an issue > with the layer parser changes. Hopefully I can get it fixed sometime > this week. I just ran out of time today. Other than that the footprint > viewer and editor can seamlessly use KiCad Legacy (.mod), Eagle (XML > format), and Geda footprint libraries.
The Pretty file parser is working fine. I had some old pretty footprint files in my library with the previous layer definitions that didn't get updated because they no longer exist in the library that I converted them from. Obviously, this brings up another issue but I'll take a look at that some other time. This means you can add KiCad pretty footprint libraries to the list. > > Once the KiCad Pretty library parser is fixed, the only other thing I > need to do is finish up the documentation for Pcbnew and Eeschema. Many > thanks in advance for help testing. > > Best Regards, > > Wayne > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
