Re: [Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
All I know about is [1], which is only on the wish/idea level, although it is not exactly the same, but seems related to me. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/961533 2015-03-02 23:10 GMT+01:00 Murat Ursavaş murat.ursa...@gmail.com: Hi, I'm new to KiCad development and have some ideas

[Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
Dear all, We've just merged the new features of the Interactive Router to the product branch: - Routing differential pairs (in pushshove mode too). - Tuning trace length. - Tuning differential pair length and skew. There's a video tutorial and a demo available on YouTube [1]. The merge also

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Javier Serrano
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch wrote: Many thanks to all developers, funders users for your help and support! Thanks in particular to you, Tom, great job! And to the Raspberry Pi Foundation for an important donation which has greatly helped in this

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 03.03.2015 18:12, Nick Østergaard wrote: I think I found a bug. I made a test project with two connectors, named the nets like a+ and a-. Then I use the Route menu - Differential Pair, start at one of my pairs, that is directly south of the original pads... I expected it to connect, but

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
2015-03-03 20:22 GMT+01:00 Tomasz Wlostowski tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch: On 03.03.2015 18:53, Nick Østergaard wrote: 2015-03-03 18:46 GMT+01:00 Nick Østergaard oe.n...@gmail.com: 2015-03-03 18:28 GMT+01:00 Tomasz Wlostowski tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch: On 03.03.2015 18:12, Nick Østergaard wrote:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 03.03.2015 18:53, Nick Østergaard wrote: 2015-03-03 18:46 GMT+01:00 Nick Østergaard oe.n...@gmail.com: 2015-03-03 18:28 GMT+01:00 Tomasz Wlostowski tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch: On 03.03.2015 18:12, Nick Østergaard wrote: I think I found a bug. I made a test project with two connectors,

[Kicad-developers] Default location for Python plug-in scripts on OS X?

2015-03-03 Thread Andy Peters
Subject says it all ... I enabled Python scripting in my OS X builds and wanted to try the footprint plug-in, but I don't know where pcbnew looks for the scripts, and it thinks none are available. I'm on BZR 5469. Say thankya. -a ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Default location for Python plug-in scripts on OS X?

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
On linux it is in $HOME/.kicad_plugins/ 2015-03-03 20:26 GMT+01:00 Andy Peters de...@latke.net: Subject says it all ... I enabled Python scripting in my OS X builds and wanted to try the footprint plug-in, but I don't know where pcbnew looks for the scripts, and it thinks none are

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
2015-03-03 18:46 GMT+01:00 Nick Østergaard oe.n...@gmail.com: 2015-03-03 18:28 GMT+01:00 Tomasz Wlostowski tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch: On 03.03.2015 18:12, Nick Østergaard wrote: I think I found a bug. I made a test project with two connectors, named the nets like a+ and a-. Then I use the

[Kicad-developers] github mirror out of sync

2015-03-03 Thread Paulo Henrique Silva
Dears, latest commit on https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror is from Feb 28th. Nothing since bzr rev 5464 is there. Might have a script somewhere that stopped. Cheers, -- Paulo ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post

Re: [Kicad-developers] github mirror out of sync

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
I did report it to Povilas earlier today, who runs the sync. 2015-03-03 20:19 GMT+01:00 Paulo Henrique Silva ph.si...@gmail.com: Dears, latest commit on https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror is from Feb 28th. Nothing since bzr rev 5464 is there. Might have a script somewhere that

Re: [Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-03 Thread Thiadmer Riemersma
If the idea is to have a single PCB design onto which some components are optionally placed, I use a separate application for that. I find that preferable, because the production/assembly phase is a different phase than the schematic/PCB design. (For example, when starting assembly, you quickly

Re: [Kicad-developers] Getting Trackpad Support in before feature freeze?

2015-03-03 Thread Adam Wolf
Hi Wayne, Did you have any luck testing Garth's trackpad branch? Is the fact that it isn't enabled for pl_editor and 3D Viewer a dealbreaker? Is there something we can do to help this along? Thanks! Adam Wolf Cofounder and Engineer WL On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Garth Corral

Re: [Kicad-developers] Default location for Python plug-in scripts on OS X?

2015-03-03 Thread Adam Wolf
Hi folks, Thanks to Collin, we can expect nightlies to have Python within a week. I'll do a parallel test build in a day or two and post it to the list before switching the nightlies over. Adam Wolf On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier stegma...@sw-systems.de wrote: These are

Re: [Kicad-developers] Getting Trackpad Support in before feature freeze?

2015-03-03 Thread Bernhard Stegmaier
Hi, as Garth pointed out, it does work for 3D-Viewer… the only bad thing is that xy-panning is *always* enabled because it doesn’t respect the pcbnew preference setting. When I look into the some things I maybe will find some time to also look into that. PL editor is probably not a big deal

Re: [Kicad-developers] Getting Trackpad Support in before feature freeze?

2015-03-03 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
If it doesn't make it in this stable release, we can definitely merge it during the next development cycle. On 3/3/2015 4:54 PM, Adam Wolf wrote: I am not sure how much work it is to put it in pl_editor and 3d viewer. I am actually not familiar with the code. It is very possible we cannot

Re: [Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
Just as a note, you might be able to handle that in the BOM scripts, which IIRC can read abritrary parameters from the schematic symbols. (I could be wrong). 2015-03-03 23:14 GMT+01:00 Thiadmer Riemersma thiadmer.riemer...@gmail.com: If the idea is to have a single PCB design onto which some

Re: [Kicad-developers] Default location for Python plug-in scripts on OS X?

2015-03-03 Thread Andy Peters
On Mar 3, 2015, at 1:58 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier stegma...@sw-systems.de wrote: These are the default paths which I have added or adapted from previous code some while back: // User scripting folder (~/Library/Application Support/kicad/scripting/plugins) pypath =

Re: [Kicad-developers] Getting Trackpad Support in before feature freeze?

2015-03-03 Thread Adam Wolf
I am not sure how much work it is to put it in pl_editor and 3d viewer. I am actually not familiar with the code. It is very possible we cannot get this in in time for the stable release. If so, let's get it in the next one! Adam Wolf On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Wayne Stambaugh

Re: [Kicad-developers] Getting Trackpad Support in before feature freeze?

2015-03-03 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Hey Adam, I just ran out of time this weekend. Hopefully I can find some time this weekend to test it. If we do decide to merge it, I would prefer that it be enabled in the PL editor and the 3D viewer. I think users would find it confusing if the behavior was different between the rendering

[Kicad-developers] Text substitution in footprint fields - any progress?

2015-03-03 Thread Sergey A. Borshch
Hello everybody. As far as I remember Lorenzo anounced his implementation of text substitution of %R and %V patterns with RefDes and Value fields content. Is there any progress in merging this feature into product branch? This feature could be very useful (really necessary) within assembly

Re: [Kicad-developers] Text substitution in footprint fields - any progress?

2015-03-03 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 09:32:30AM +0200, Sergey A. Borshch wrote: Hello everybody. As far as I remember Lorenzo anounced his implementation of text substitution of %R and %V patterns with RefDes and Value fields content. Is there any progress in merging this feature into product branch?

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Miguel Ángel Ajo
A-ma-zing work! ;) Thank you. Miguel Ángel Ajo On Wednesday, 4 de March de 2015 at 3:38, Andrew Zonenberg wrote: So if I understand this correctly, net names must currently be FOO+ and FOO- for differential pair routing. Can you add support for FOO_P and FOO_N naming? These names

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Jon Neal
In the video Tom mentions that _N and _P work as well. This is an awesome addition! Now if only this had existed last summer I could have saved a lot of time. :) On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Blair Bonnett blair.bonn...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 March 2015 at 15:38, Andrew Zonenberg

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Blair Bonnett
On 4 March 2015 at 15:38, Andrew Zonenberg azonenb...@drawersteak.com wrote: So if I understand this correctly, net names must currently be FOO+ and FOO- for differential pair routing. Can you add support for FOO_P and FOO_N naming? _P and _N works for me in r5472.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Coverity scan.

2015-03-03 Thread Mark Roszko
So I was experimenting with automating the build submission using Travis-CI and I managed to link the coverity project in a way that it also renamed it to my github repo.working on getting that fixed. ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-03 Thread Murat Ursavaş
Yep. It's about optionally placed components and their variant based values. Using a separate application could also do the job but I believe in one information source, which is in this case the Eeschema file. In Altium you can edit the placement option visually and also edit (or bulk edit)

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Andrew Zonenberg
So if I understand this correctly, net names must currently be FOO+ and FOO- for differential pair routing. Can you add support for FOO_P and FOO_N naming? These names are legal identifiers in most hardware description languages and will allow PCB and HDL net names to be the same. On

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
2015-03-03 18:28 GMT+01:00 Tomasz Wlostowski tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch: On 03.03.2015 18:12, Nick Østergaard wrote: I think I found a bug. I made a test project with two connectors, named the nets like a+ and a-. Then I use the Route menu - Differential Pair, start at one of my pairs, that

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
I think I found a bug. I made a test project with two connectors, named the nets like a+ and a-. Then I use the Route menu - Differential Pair, start at one of my pairs, that is directly south of the original pads... I expected it to connect, but it does not. I needed to make a kink or cornor to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Great work Tom and Orson and many thanks to CERN for making this possible. Please test the new diff pair router as much as possible so we can get any issues sorted out as we push towards a stable release. I know this merge fixed some outstanding issues in the OpenGL mode so please tag any bugs

Re: [Kicad-developers] Diff Pairs Length tuning in the product branch

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
Looks very nice, I look forward to trying it out when I get home. I will use the possibility to mention that, ... if you fell like writing docs, don't forget what you wrote in [2] and merge it with the effort in [3] when updated. [2]

[Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-03 Thread Murat Ursavaş
Hi, I'm new to KiCad development and have some ideas to include into the package. The most important one is Assembly Variant Management, which is missing, AFAIK. Am I right? Is there anybody working on this subject? I've not seen any entry in the mailing list archive. Regards, /// Murat