Re: [Kicad-developers] Simulator towards 5.0

2017-12-06 Thread Jacob Schmidt
I got frustrated a while back because people were talking about the spice integration like it was a real thing, but I had never seen it. That lead me to google how to list cmake options, and I found ccmake. ccmake is a wrapper around cmake that was useful to me. Maybe it will be for someone

Re: [Kicad-developers] cvpcb alternative

2015-09-06 Thread Jacob Schmidt
On 09/06/2015 03:42 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: On Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:34:32 +0200, Jacob Schmidt wrote: A video response, as it were: https://youtu.be/h7DaMB7lPnA OK, got the problem :D The 'new lib' thing associated with the somewhat byzantine fp-lib dialog :P The 'new lib

Re: [Kicad-developers] cvpcb alternative

2015-09-05 Thread Jacob Schmidt
is remarkably unintuitive; making a footprint is EASY, saving it is HARD. Where is the unintuitive part? Select library, save footprint; end of the story. Slightly more complex if you use the master board repository approach (see manual for that). The "Select" button sends us to the "Library

Re: [Kicad-developers] cvpcb alternative

2015-09-05 Thread Jacob Schmidt
is remarkably unintuitive; making a footprint is EASY, saving it is HARD. Where is the unintuitive part? Select library, save footprint; end of the story. Slightly more complex if you use the master board repository approach (see manual for that). I'll try to get a video together showing

Re: [Kicad-developers] cvpcb alternative

2015-09-05 Thread Jacob Schmidt
Maybe some of the problems I'm seeing that I've shown in my video are troubles with my build... Linux gap 2.6.32-74-generic #142-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 28 10:03:02 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux Application: kicad Version: (2015-09-03 BZR 6154)-product release build wxWidgets: Version 3.0.0

Re: [Kicad-developers] cvpcb alternative

2015-09-05 Thread Jacob Schmidt
Well you are not supposed to select each footprint from eeschema field dialog; that's for minor modification (like for the d'oh, that resistor needs to be bigger if I don't want a flaming ball of fire situations...) The cvpcb panel is still the main association tool IIRC. You know what would

[Kicad-developers] cvpcb alternative

2015-09-05 Thread Jacob Schmidt
This is going to sound like a rant, because it is. Don't stop reading because you think you know what I'm going to say, please. Long on the list, devs have been asking for cmp files to go away, and cvpcb to become less prominent as a method for assigning footprints to components. I am totally

Re: [Kicad-developers] Configuration file relocation.

2014-09-07 Thread Jacob Schmidt
Honestly, as a user -- this is spectacular news. Trying to move the configuration files. Which ones are they?? The fact that I have to ask that question is damning evidence that this patch was necessary!!! Is there a list of these files somewhere? On 09/05/2014 05:31 PM, Wayne Stambaugh

Re: [Kicad-developers] Configuration file relocation.

2014-09-07 Thread Jacob Schmidt
Is there a list of these files somewhere? What platform are you using? On Linux assuming you've opened each of the main windows a least once except for fp-lib-table which should always be present: ~/.kicad_common ~/.kicad ~/.cvpcb ~/.gerbview ~/.eeschema ~/.pcbnew ~/.bitmap2component

Re: [Kicad-developers] 'Move' vs. 'drag' user experience justification

2013-06-14 Thread Jacob Schmidt
Tooltips vs. good documentation is a preference too. And my preference is with Brian's. I don't like tooltips popping up unexpectedly covering something I'm looking at or referencing. The documentation definitely needs updating, last I saw, so I would definitely push for that route. Get it?

Re: [Kicad-developers] Regression Testing

2013-04-28 Thread Jacob Schmidt
The other thing I learned was that python can call arbitrary C functions in an arbitrary dll, even if they are not swigged. Sure, ctypes is, IMHO, one of the coolest standard library modules.