Re: [Kicad-developers] How do we envision Pad Stacks?

2020-06-11 Thread ja...@veith.net
On 11.06.20 17:16, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: I thought at one time we had an initial proposal document written for pad stacks but I cannot seem to find it. I thought it was either Orson or Tom who wrote it but maybe I'm remembering this wrong. If not, we need to create one to make sure we have it

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project Setup for Development and Beginner recommended beginner work on eeschema

2020-04-14 Thread ja...@veith.net
Hello Rico, compiling for Ubuntu stable 18.04 seems to be most easy and I started my first patch without using any IDE. Others have VS code , QT creator or Eclipse in use. Eclipse was also the recommendation of Seth Hilbrand. I also have the CDT running with GCC hello world including the

[Kicad-developers] Padstack support #2402

2020-03-25 Thread ja...@veith.net
V6 Roadmap indicates "initial technical spec drafted" by Orson Is this document anywhere online for reading ? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

Re: [Kicad-developers] Cryptic characters in source

2020-02-08 Thread ja...@veith.net
On 08.02.20 22:39, Brian Piccioni wrote: Perhaps I misunderstand but I don't see anything (screen grab from notepad++ on Windows 10) Sorry - did not recognize that its always EOL - somebody simply opened in a Windows editor ... ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Kicad-developers] How to access the fbp sources

2020-02-04 Thread ja...@veith.net
To access the fbp sources I tried to install the wxFormbuilder for Ubuntu 18.04LTS. As there seems neither distro version nor Debian packages I used the github repo with v3.9.0: >sudo apt install libwxgtk3.0-dev libwxgtk-media3.0-dev meson >sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-12-01 Thread ja...@veith.net
> On 01.12.19 21:06, Jon Evans wrote: 1) some cases (critical controlled impedance, small BGA decoupling, etc) we may decide during layout that it is best to switch to the "high density" (minimal pad size) version of the 0402. This is alternate footprint. Implementation by reference in new

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-22 Thread ja...@veith.net
> On 22.11.19 21:12, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: What Jeff described is the simplest case. Where things really get interesting is when you start sharing schematic files between projects. Imho multiple use of a schematic requires separate instance data. Similar problem for the recently discussed

Re: [Kicad-developers] suggestion: draw text selection as simple rectangle

2019-11-20 Thread ja...@veith.net
On 20.11.19 20:37, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: If yes, does it need to be configurable? We had a color blind fellow designer. The schematic entry (ACE-Plus) derived its colors from the library - no chance for user setup ... ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Kicad-developers] [Discussion] PCB Calculator: Resistor calculator

2019-11-13 Thread ja...@veith.net
Recently there was a user with similar wish in the forum for E12 parallel/serial calculator (what is your lower tab ?) You will find another code for E values <12 on my web page as E96 from the IN30TCD page are already available with many values: www.veith.net/e12calc.htm >Seth Hilbrand wrote

Re: [Kicad-developers] Should gerber files in protel format use same name? (PATCH?)

2019-10-16 Thread ja...@veith.net
Alexander Shuklin schrieb: >>"they demand drill files to be same precision as gerbers (for example >>4:5). Can you confirm that proper Excellon format should be 3:3 >>precision" jp charras schrieb: >Excellon files have no way to specify the format actually used >in files. As I have access

[Kicad-developers] Do Not Fit

2019-09-19 Thread ja...@veith.net
pls allow some comments to Olivers do not fit suggestions. We recently stumbled accidently above Kicad after quarrels with commercial tools and found its push & shoove capabilites are a remarkable and motivating feature. Experience shows, that the „do not fit“ feature is much more complex.