Brian here. My utility is up on GitHub as a standalone app. I learned enough c++ and wxWidgets so porting it to Kicad should be useful.
I set porting it to Kicad itself to the side for a few months so I could catch up with life and since it is destined for V6 (IIRC) I have some time. While there is a lot of code in Kicad and lots of moving parts I have a clear path to porting it over using Kiway, etc.. Essentially this means 1) Replacing my homebrew parsing of PCB, Schematic, and netlist files to calls to internal Kicad functions/methods in the respective apps; 2) Once this is done I’ll use Kiway to communicate the changes between eeSchema and PCBNew. As near as I can determine, everything I need to extract from the files is already in Kicad. When I set things aside I was trying to figure out what I needed to do in order to add a toolbar call in Tools to access my code. Since there seems to be numerous files associated with such a change I found it rather daunting. If anybody wants to help they are welcome to reach out to me directly. Brian From: Ian McInerney Sent: November 6, 2019 9:08 AM To: KiCad Developers; [email protected] Cc: Brian Piccioni Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB I thought that was part of the connectivity stuff that Jon was working on (it certainly wasn't me, and I don't know if there is another Ian contributing code right now). I remember seeing some email threads on real-time updates to the information in Eeschema. The wishlist item that Wayne mentioned is [1]. Brian filed that a while ago because he had created a tool to do the back annotation based on the geography of the board. I don't know where he is with porting it into the KiCad codebase right now, but you should definitely reach out to him and coordinate work so that you don't duplicate effort. -Ian [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1748205 On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 1:47 PM Simon Richter <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 08:26:52AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > May I implement some back annotation feature from PCB to schematic? > You are welcome to contribute to KiCad. I suspect it will not be as > easy as you think it will be. Complex schematic hierarchies (using the > same schematic more than once in a design) always trips up new developers. I dimly remember that there was some work (Ian did that IIRC) to make the netlist the master document and attach the schematic and PCB information to that, with a first patch to keep the netlist up-to-date continuously. It would probably make sense to join that effort, because any other solution would conflict heavily with that. Simon _______________________________________________ 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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