You know it would be useful for many designs in which the layout is crucial. As a hobbyist, I've never done RF, but I messed up a few high-frequency switching regulators by not quite following the template shown in the datasheet. I give a thumbs up to this patch by Cirilo and will try it shortly.
Regards, Carl On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Nick Østergaard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Cirilo > > That was indeed my problem. I had downloaed the patch earlier, and did > not notice the ther files. I applied and built successfullt after I > followed the instrucitons in the README. > > I don't have much to comment on it, I think one needs to try it out on > a real design to tell if it is any good in practice. I guess it would be. > > Nick > > 2014-11-01 10:48 GMT+01:00 Cirilo Bernardo <[email protected]>: > > Hi Nick, > > > > I just tried the patch against rev 5247 and had no problems. Did you > follow > > the instructions in the README file? Thanks for checking out the patch. > > > > - Cirilo > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Nick Østergaard <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Sorry for the late response Cirilo, but I just tried to patch this > >> against latest 5241 and get errors, here is a snippet from it. > >> > >> > >> > /home/nickoe/PKGBUILDs/kicad-bzr/src/kicad/bitmap2component/bitmap2cmp_gui.cpp: > >> In constructor 'BM2CMP_FRAME::BM2CMP_FRAME(KIWAY*, wxWindow*)': > >> > >> > /home/nickoe/PKGBUILDs/kicad-bzr/src/kicad/bitmap2component/bitmap2cmp_gui.cpp:176:9: > >> error: 'm_radio_PCBLayer' was not declared in this scope > >> m_radio_PCBLayer->Enable( true ); > >> > >> > >> 2014-09-29 23:48 GMT+02:00 Cirilo Bernardo <[email protected]>: > >> > I have put a patch on github to introduce 2 Underlay layers to help > with > >> > reconstructing > >> > PCB artwork from images of existing PCBs. This can be useful for > people > >> > involved in legacy product support or for people who want to create > >> > Gerber > >> > files from published artwork in magazines. > >> > > >> > The patch modifies the bitmap2component tool to allow an image to be > >> > placed on the Underlay1 or Underlay2 layer in addition to the past > >> > behavior > >> > of placing images on the Front.SilkS layer. Generic instructions for > >> > applying > >> > the patch are in the README.md file from my patch project on github. > >> > > >> > The patch is available at: > >> > > >> > https://github.com/cbernardo/kicad-patches > >> > > >> > I have tested the patch with pcbnew and checked that there are no > >> > unintended effects in the print, plot, and export functions of pcbnew. > >> > The patch is against rev. 5151 > >> > > >> > - Cirilo > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> > Post to : [email protected] > >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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