Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: To facilitate easier Via Curtain/Filling

2015-12-19 Thread Piers Titus van der Torren
Hi Wayne, If I can add my thoughts, I think Steven has a fair point that tracking zones in the DRC is non trivial, so a 'real' solution in that direction is not around the corner, and will never be perfect either. The proposed change has as side effect that unconnected tracks without a zone

Re: [Kicad-developers] more pythonic scripting API for pcbnew

2015-01-24 Thread Piers Titus van der Torren
While I understand that for internal units it's good to use integers and hence small units, for this high level python api I don't see much benefits for not using floats and sensible default units like degrees and mm. Keeping the internal api intact still allows for low level scripting and using

Re: [Kicad-developers] more pythonic scripting API for pcbnew

2015-01-16 Thread Piers Titus van der Torren
About units: For me it was a big benefit to be able to just use any 2 element tuple like object for coordinates and sizes, and direct numbers for other values, and not having to use a conversion to internal units all the time. I do a lot of my calculations with numpy, so it makes things a lot