Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the intent of the people who made the
3d model generators, as they inject the license into the model files, and
explicitly stated that they indeed want to restrict some uses of the
mechanically generated models so people can't compile them in their own
Public Domain is not the right vision IMO for kicad libraries.
If you release something in public domain, you lose any control and your
data can be used in closed libraries, improved without giving back any
result etc.
IMO Geda acted in the right way... the license has an exception for data
We have a fairly complex board that needs to be done yesterday. We've
been experimenting with simultaneous editing of the pcb with moderate
success.
We are using git. Each person works in a different area of the board,
and we merge the results periodically.
Because of the time crunch, we
I was missing the piecewise linear approximation of the higher order
shapes part.
I don't know the answer.
My instinct is that for arcs the direct analytic tests for proximity and
intersection are faster tests on an accurate piecewise linear
approximation. But on the other hand, if you only
I don't think you are missing anything. I was thinking that converting
everything to line segments might make DRC faster. I haven't dug into the DRC
code, but perhaps it relies on collision functions provided by the shape type
itself (which theoretically could be either "true" arc calculations,
Interesting idea. It might be a false comparison since we are choosing
between a line segement chain and a curve segement chain composed of
only lines.
For the maths aspect, the computational speed is equal.
For optimizations involving memory footprint and data structure
traversal speed, I'm
Cirilo,
Can we stipulate as part of the license file that any contributors agree
implicitly that their generated models are released as public domain? i.e.
don't require explicit release from every contributor, as it is inherent to
the library LICENSE?
a) If you contribute model / footprint /
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Oliver Walters
wrote:
> Would it be sufficient to drop the "Copyright (C) 2017 KiCad" header?
>
No, because we have no idea who holds copyright. KiCad cannot be a
copyright holder
because it is not a legal entity (person or
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 5:43 PM, easyw wrote:
> Hi Javier,
>
> atm our 3d script generated library has already a license similar to geda
>
> https://github.com/KiCad/packages3D/wiki/Model-Licencing
>
> Particularly what has been stated there is the freedom to share the 3D
>
Hi Orson,
tested with latest commits and now is fine.
thanks a lot
Maurice
On 6/30/2017 9:46 PM, Maciej Suminski wrote:
Hi Maurice,
What revision did you use? Today I fixed it (da051379), so it depends
whether you already have the recent patches. Let me know if there are
still problems.
Hi hauptmech,
Would you give more details about the Altium import? Are you working on
a plugin or standalone tools? What do you plan to import (sch/pcb/libs)?
Regards,
Orson
On 06/30/2017 11:05 AM, hauptmech wrote:
> I asked earlier this year whether there was any interest in arc tracks
> and
Hi Maurice,
What revision did you use? Today I fixed it (da051379), so it depends
whether you already have the recent patches. Let me know if there are
still problems.
Regards,
Orson
On 06/30/2017 05:58 PM, easyw wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having a strange behavior when loading a netlist
>
> with the
Hi,
I'm having a strange behavior when loading a netlist
with the menu Tools, Load Netlist
if I select to Delete Single Pads Nets, almost all pads will lose their
connectivity... (you can see in the report that the algo is deleting the
net connectivity when parsing the pads)
This was not the
Hi Javier,
atm our 3d script generated library has already a license similar to geda
https://github.com/KiCad/packages3D/wiki/Model-Licencing
Particularly what has been stated there is the freedom to share the 3D
models embedded in the design (i.e. a full board and step models for
data
Hi hauptmech,
Thank you for the patch. I have committed the part where you enable
custom hotkeys for the select actions, and I did the same for the router
actions (instead of disabling them).
Regards,
Orson
On 06/30/2017 10:19 AM, hauptmech wrote:
> Fixed blocked Lock/Unlock hotkey.
> Add
Is SHAPE_LINE_CHAIN a core element that potentially an ARC might be translated
to for display, DRC, or other output needs? If so, it seems that they would be
separate with a conversion function from ARC to SHAPE_LINE_CHAIN and there
would be SHAPE_ARC_CHAIN or SHAPE_SEGMENT_CHAIN (or similar)
At first glance it looks like SHAPE_LINE_CHAIN and TRACK are the points
where the development clings to straight lines the most.
One could add a single variable to line segment data structures so that
they could also represent arcs.
or
One could add a layer of abstraction so that curves
Hi Kristoffer,
I don't have a chance at moment to test the current main branch,
but I assure you it is not a GPU or driver problem! ;)
Mario
From: Kicad-developers
on behalf of
Kristoffer
On 30.06.2017 11:05, hauptmech wrote:
> I asked earlier this year whether there was any interest in arc tracks
> and got little response.
>
> My use case was importing altium files.
>
> Are any of the core developers likely to accept work in this direction?
Hi,
Sure, it would be awesome if
I asked earlier this year whether there was any interest in arc tracks
and got little response.
My use case was importing altium files.
Are any of the core developers likely to accept work in this direction?
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:34 PM, José Ignacio wrote:
> PS: another inconvenience for the license is section 3.a, attribution.
> There is no automated way to generate a proper attribution list from the
> schematic/layout, since each library is housed in a different
Hello!
I have been using the nightly version of kicad for a while. But recently
the 3d-viewer stopped displaying models on my board. First I thought
that it was my GPU being strange ( AMD R390x ). But now it has happened
on my Manjaro laptop as well with integrated Intel gpu.
Is anyone else
Fixed blocked Lock/Unlock hotkey.
Add hotkeys for Select Trivial Connection and Select Copper Connection
---
pcbnew/hotkeys.cpp | 7 ++-
pcbnew/hotkeys.h| 4 +++-
pcbnew/router/pns_tool_base.cpp | 2 +-
pcbnew/router/router_tool.cpp | 4 ++--
Hi Wayne,
Why do you say the parser would choke on the license comment? I have a
lot of parts with the license text put in the 'License' field and they
seem to work correctly.
Cheers,
Orson
On 06/28/2017 04:42 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Javier,
>
> Thank you for the clarification. Adding
As before but with fewer tabs...
diff --git a/pcbnew/router/pns_kicad_iface.cpp b/pcbnew/router/pns_kicad_iface.cpp
index 2960f41e2..922a9a7a5 100644
--- a/pcbnew/router/pns_kicad_iface.cpp
+++ b/pcbnew/router/pns_kicad_iface.cpp
@@ -233,9 +233,9 @@ int PNS_PCBNEW_RULE_RESOLVER::matchDpSuffix(
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