Re: [Kicad-developers] PCBNew / Footprint editor - "Special strings"

2017-10-18 Thread Thomas Langås
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Gaurav Juvekar wrote: >> Summary: >> - Does KiCad support having an F.Assembly and B.Assembly layer? >> - Does KiCad support "special strings" like Altium's .Designator ? > I think F.Fab and B.Fab is what you want. Reference designator is

[Kicad-developers] PCBNew / Footprint editor - "Special strings"

2017-10-18 Thread Thomas Langås
Disclaimer: I come from the world of Altium, and might have a biased workflow. Is the following possible in any way in KiCad, or is there a different workflow that supports what I want? Usually, when I make components, I have a mechanical layer called "Assembly" where I either duplicate the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Additional Patch for via properties dialog (2)

2017-08-22 Thread Thomas Langås
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > I'm not opposed to this change. However, there are two schools of > thought when it comes to board layout: strict layout constraints and no > layout constraints. I tend to lean towards the latter but I've been >