The reason other layers were used is that there are spare layers and people use the drawing layer for their own purposes; if a user makes use of the Drawing layer and this Underlay tool then the tool will interfere with their normal use.
- Cirilo On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Carl Poirier <[email protected]> wrote: > Cirilo, > > I tried your patch. I don't see any problems with it, but I just began > wondering why not use a user layer for that purpose, for example the > drawings layer, instead of adding another one to the list. > > Allowing the bitmap2component tool to export to another layer than silk > might be nice for people who don't want to edit the text file manually, > however. > > Regards, > > Carl > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Carl Poirier <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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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