I committed your patch in the product branch r6371. Thanks. On 12/13/2015 10:42 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > Sounds good, Wayne. Currently I am in fact using the full resolution for > placement, unless the option to round to 50 mils is enabled. I'm working > on a patch to make the vertical spacing flexible, at the moment, so > should have that ready soon - I'll submit it as an incremental patch. > > Thanks > Chris > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:39:25AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> Chris, I'll commit the latest patch as is. You can tweak it as time >> goes by. This will also give other developers and users a chance to >> comment on it as well. >> >> Technically there is no reason not to use the full resolution of >> eeschema (0.001") when placing the fields rather than using a fixed grid >> spacing. This way the field spacing could be flexible. Maybe you could >> use a fixed distance between each field so that no matter what the text >> height is, the spacing will always be constant. It's something to think >> about. >> >> On 12/12/2015 4:17 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: >>> Wayne, would you rather I make this change and submit an updated monolithic >>> patch (will take a few days), or would you rather I make a second patch on >>> top of this one to be applied in a second commit? >>> >>> JP, the horizontal grid is already flexible, but the autoplacer doesn't do >>> vertical texts. How would that even work? It has to arrange them in a grid >>> somehow. Texts are always placed horizontally with respect to the sheet. >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 07:43:47PM +0100, jp charras wrote: >>>> Le 12/12/2015 18:26, Chris Pavlina a écrit : >>>>> I actually thought a bit about that, and wasn't sure how to reconcile >>>>> "make the labels look nice" with "we like 50mil grids". But then, I went >>>>> off-grid for horizontal _anyway_, so... *shrug* >>>>> >>>>> It'll take some reworking of the placement code to make the vertical >>>>> grid flexible - not something I'd probably bother doing on my own, but >>>>> if other people want it, let me know and I'll have no problem >>>>> implementing that. >>>>> >>>> >>>> The 50 mils grid is good (read: mandatory) to place pins. >>>> So "we like this grid" for connected items (pins, labels, wires ..) >>>> >>>> But for graphics items a smaller grid is often needed. >>>> >>>> Fields can be seen as graphics items. >>>> I am thinking a smaller grid like 10 mils could be used to place them. >>>> >>>> (the horizontal grid should be also flexible, especially for vertical >>>> texts) >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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