Re: [Kicad-developers] Fwd: Panelization of PCB

2012-06-26 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:35:45PM +0200, Edwin van den Oetelaar wrote: > Most (all) PCB fabricators do the panalisation themselves. He send to China, probably is one of the direct-from-plot low cost fab. > The reason is that the PCB needs work to make it production ready. > All kinds of changes

Re: [Kicad-developers] Panelization of PCB

2012-06-26 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 09:47:14PM +0200, Richard wrote: > I tried to download and install the GerbMerg. But I was not able to > install it either on my Ubuntu computer nor on a Windows laptop, > what made me frustrated as I spent hours trying everything to get it > up and running. There are a lot

Re: [Kicad-developers] Simplified vias patch proposal

2012-06-26 Thread jean-pierre charras
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:18:15AM +0200, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote: Hi Samuel, I also had the same problem recently (making a high power led controller 3x8A channels), and people complain from time to time about this issue, I'd be willing to see this working, but as far as I know there ar

Re: [Kicad-developers] Simplified vias patch proposal

2012-06-26 Thread Samuel Lesueur
Hi Miguel :) On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:18:15AM +0200, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote: > Hi Samuel, I also had the same problem recently (making a high power led > controller 3x8A channels), and people complain from time to time about > this issue, Nice ! In the hacker space, we also have a cool

Re: [Kicad-developers] P-Cad plug-in

2012-06-26 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 06/26/2012 02:23 PM, Alexander Lunev wrote: > It was suggested to implement pcad2kicad converter as pcbnew plug-in. It is > clear how to do this in the case of pcbnew. Even it is clear > how to do this in the case of eeschema. But it is not clear what to do with > translation of P-Cad librarie

[Kicad-developers] Fwd: Panelization of PCB

2012-06-26 Thread Edwin van den Oetelaar
-- Forwarded message -- From: Edwin van den Oetelaar Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:35 PM Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Panelization of PCB To: Richard Hello Richard, Most (all) PCB fabricators do the panalisation themselves. The reason is that the PCB needs work to make it pro

Re: [Kicad-developers] Panelization of PCB

2012-06-26 Thread Matthew Beckler
Hi Richard, I know some users of KiCad prefer to use the gerbv program from the gEDA package, and I'm not sure how much effort has been put into gerbview in recent years. Please correct me if I'm wrong. For my own production needs, my board houses have always been more than happy to take my gerbe

Re: [Kicad-developers] P-Cad plug-in

2012-06-26 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 6/26/2012 3:23 PM, Alexander Lunev wrote: It was suggested to implement pcad2kicad converter as pcbnew plug-in. It is clear how to do this in the case of pcbnew. Even it is clear how to do this in the case of eeschema. But it is not clear what to do with translation of P-Cad libraries (pcb a

[Kicad-developers] Panelization of PCB

2012-06-26 Thread Richard
Hi to all I am new to KiCad as also to the developer community. I have designed two boards with KiCad and sent the data to china just a few minutes ago. In a first step I only sent the gerber files for a single board (Prototype for test). But as I need big quantities, I need a panelization so

[Kicad-developers] P-Cad plug-in

2012-06-26 Thread Alexander Lunev
It was suggested to implement pcad2kicad converter as pcbnew plug-in. It is clear how to do this in the case of pcbnew. Even it is clear how to do this in the case of eeschema. But it is not clear what to do with translation of P-Cad libraries (pcb and schematic libraries). Now there are 4 diffe

[Kicad-developers] Removal of include wx/imaglist.h

2012-06-26 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
In pcbnew/dialogs/dialog_copper_zones.cpp, it is required by wx/listctrl.h, I had to readd the include for building... wx 2.8.12 here I reminds me the newer libpng that *doesn't* include anymore the zlib header. Lots of patches to make stuff build... -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl

Re: [Kicad-developers] Simplified vias patch proposal

2012-06-26 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 6/25/2012 6:32 PM, Samuel Lesueur wrote: Hello kicad developers :) First of all, thanks everyone for this great software ! I had quite a hard time moving from protel (mainly getting used to the keyboard shortcuts and the menus organization), it is difficult to forget the software you used to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Simplified vias patch proposal

2012-06-26 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 6/26/2012 2:18 AM, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote: Hi Samuel, I also had the same problem recently (making a high power led controller 3x8A channels), and people complain from time to time about this issue, I'd be willing to see this working, but as far as I know there are many issues to tak

Re: [Kicad-developers] New kicad-testing-committer member

2012-06-26 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:51:53AM +0200, Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo wrote: > Haha, it's hard to find a language who everybody likes :-) I chose it > because it was plenty of useful libraries, Well, python is reasonably present (i.e. just everywhere) and does the trick. It's just that you can't % on