Hi Cirilo, Wayne suggestion sounds good to me too.
I can add this idea: on the reload board icon you could implement a flag that will force the reload (clean the cache) of the models that it will load for the board in use. That way it will work as a true reload process for everything. It also helps to keep the cache for the other files and just update the ones used on the current board. Mario ________________________________________ From: Kicad-developers [[email protected]] on behalf of Wayne Stambaugh [[email protected]] Sent: 03 February 2017 02:04 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Possible small improvements to 3D file cache behavior On 2/2/2017 7:40 PM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: > Hi folks, I'm fishing for comments on the handling of the 3D file caches: > > 1. As it is, the code is pretty good at regenerating a cache file when the > model changes but there are a few exceptions such as when ModelA > references ModelB and ModelB has changed. This is due to the fact that > the cache system only looks at the file date and checksum of ModelA: > it is not (reasonably) possible to divine external file dependencies of any > given file format. > > 2. People have occasionally complained that the cache directory grows > too much and they would like to occasionally purge the directory without > dropping into a command line and hunting for the cache directory. > > To address (1) and partially address (2) I'm proposing to add > "Refresh Model" and "Clear Cache" buttons to the 3D Footprint editor tab. > I think that a menu item to clear the cache would also be worthwhile. > Any comments and suggestions as to where it would be appropriate to > put "Clear Cache" menus? The file menu seems like the logical place given that these commands deal with files. > > - 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 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
