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

On 2019-12-02 12:52 a.m., Alexander Shuklin wrote: I would say, pin swapping is just will be an another tool (you probably need some specific piece of GUI for that). Be very careful about how pin swapping is handled. Many years ago someone made a board that could be plugged in to an Amiga

Re: [Kicad-developers] Python 3 now required

On 2021-06-15 6:32 a.m., Marco Ciampa wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 12:22:42AM +0300, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: [snip] That's where cmake UIs come handy. Try ccmake or cmake-gui (they are [snip] Exactly, Kevin is right but using the cmake-gui command it was very easy to figure out how to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Python 3 now required

On 2021-06-14 4:34 p.m., Marco Ciampa wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 03:43:54PM -0400, Jon Evans wrote: You should be able to override what is found by CMake by defining the PYTHON_EXECUTABLE variable in your cmake command line Gosh, shame on me, it was so simple! Not that simple. I tried

Re: [Kicad-developers] Python 3 now required

On 2021-06-04 1:34 p.m., Seth Hillbrand wrote: KiCad now officially only supports Python 3. [snip] The current minimum Python version is 3.7 (due to a module test call we use) but we are looking at potentially supporting Python 3.6 if we can handle dynamic reloads. I have 2.7 and 3.6

Re: [Kicad-developers] OCE vs. OCC default build flag

On 2021-05-18 11:15 a.m., Carsten Schoenert wrote: you will need to have installed libocct-data-exchange-dev which will probably pull in other OCC related packages as an dependency. Thanks for the info. Good to know that libocct is the library I will need to install when the switch is made

Re: [Kicad-developers] OCE vs. OCC default build flag

On 2021-05-17 8:19 a.m., Wayne Stambaugh wrote: How does this change affect our package devs?  I'm guessing they would have to make some package dependencies changes if OCC is going to be the default.  I would like to hear from them before we make OCC the default. How will this affect those

Re: [Kicad-developers] Contributing 3DMouse code to KiCAD

On 2021-03-25 10:18 a.m., Markus Bonk wrote: I am able to start contributing code to implement navigation in the 3D-Viewer and pcbnew. I am however already failing: I cannot create a branch on GitLab in the KICAD project to add the feature. It has become more common with sites like GitHub

Re: [Kicad-developers] Can't show 3D models

On 2021-03-06 12:09 p.m., Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: Also, libTKVCAF and all its friends was copied into $(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX)/KiCad.app/Contents/Frameworks/ so they all exist there. But still, no 3D models at all are shown. I will have to assume you have built the program correctly with the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Code execution context

On 2021-02-25 1:47 a.m., Markus Bonk wrote: I am currently investigating adding support for 3D input devices to pcbnew. One other piece of information I forgot to include is that for development under Linux you can use the libspnav0(-dev) libraries. The description for the library is: The

Re: [Kicad-developers] Code execution context

On 2021-02-25 1:47 a.m., Markus Bonk wrote: I am currently investigating adding support for 3D input devices to pcbnew. The plan is to use a websocket interface I've long wanted to be able to use my 3DConnexion device when I'm in the 3D view of pcbnew. I thought about trying to implement it

Re: [Kicad-developers] Build problem of current master tree

On 2021-01-02 9:45 a.m., Jeff Young wrote: Hi Carsten, Known problem when building 5.99 in a tree that used to hold 5.1. Try: cd include rm *_lexer.h Another option would be to issue the command "git clean -x -df" to remove all files that are not part of the source tree. -- Cheers!

Re: [Kicad-developers] Can't see references - V5.99 what am I doing wrong?

On 2020-10-14 10:51 a.m., Jon Evans wrote: "Footprint Text" off turns off all footprint text, including references and values.  This isn't new behavior but I worry that the simplified objects panel has made it more confusing than it was in 5.1 Perhaps it would help if the label said "All

Re: [Kicad-developers] What is this build error?

On 2020-09-04 9:38 a.m., Dick Hollenbeck wrote: There is no package name gtk+-3.0. Any idea, in Fossa terms, what this missing library set is named? Or is there a compatibility issue on Fossa with the library search? It is a useful error message for people who do a lot of programming and

Re: [Kicad-developers] Downloads storage maintenance

On 2020-08-17 3:58 a.m., Maciej Suminski wrote: I have received a message saying that a virtual machine hosting the downloads storage might be down on 7th September between 9:00 and 12:00. Is that AM or PM and in which time zone? -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |

Re: [Kicad-developers] No hotkey for "Set Bus Entry Shape"

On 2020-05-31 3:41 p.m., Andy Peters wrote: All right, I just checked in 5.1.6, and the usual X and Y mirror and R rotate hotkeys work. [snip] And it’s still an annoyance that you can’t see the entry before you place it. One _can_ see a part symbol (ghosted) as you move the mouse prior to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Poll: how does autocomplete filter?

On 2020-05-30 10:50 a.m., Jeff Young wrote: One strategy is to highlight the first match as you type, but leave the menu entries unchanged. Another strategy is to remove the un-matched entries (so the selected on is always at the top). [snip]> Which is more common? Which are you used to?

Re: [Kicad-developers] Legacy schematic and symbol library writing deprecated.

On 2020-05-29 10:24 a.m., Wayne Stambaugh wrote: They also have all of the features planned for V6 which haven't been implemented yet so they are actually ahead of the current file formats. I don't know how motivated I am to rip out all of the new stuff and then add it back in later. Where the

Re: [Kicad-developers] 5.1.6 Release Update

On 2020-05-13 4:11 p.m., Rene Pöschl wrote: You must pull the tagged commit otherwise you get whatever got merged last. Ok, thank you. With the v6 libraries no longer compatible with v5 I was expecting to see a branch, not just a tag. Does this mean the v5 libraries are no longer being

Re: [Kicad-developers] 5.1.6 Release Update

On 2020-05-12 10:36 a.m., Nick Østergaard wrote: The library is till on github: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-templates https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-symbols https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-footprints https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-packages3D The code, translation and docs are on gitlab:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Cryptic characters in source

On 2020-02-08 4:32 p.m., ja...@veith.net wrote: My editor shows non ascii cryptic characters in master cpp source what I cannot see in the browser. Here it is underscore M [snip] Can anybody confirm this ? Yes, I can confirm them. They are carriage return (ctrl-M) characters in the file.

Re: [Kicad-developers] File format specifications, again (broken link)

On 2020-02-07 12:41 p.m., jp charras wrote: Attached, my latest version of file format documents. Thanks for the PDF files. They appear to be the same docs I downloaded in February of 2017. I looked at a few of the files once again. They have no indication of when they were produced, what is

Re: [Kicad-developers] File format specifications, again (broken link)

On 2020-02-07 3:41 a.m., Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: Wayne gave this link recently: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stambaughw/kicad/doc-read-only/view/head:/doc/help/file_formats/file_formats.pdf But it leads to a broken download I found the actual PDF file at that site. It may not be the version

Re: [Kicad-developers] file_formats.pdf doc is gone

On 2020-01-18 8:16 a.m., Michael Kavanagh wrote: Here's the source files. I have no idea how old/out of date these are, I've said it before that whoever maintains the format documents needs to include a revision number and/or date of publication in the file to allow someone to determine if

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

On 2019-11-22 2:29 p.m., Brian wrote: Can someone tell me an example use-case for a single schematic symbol corresponding to multiple board entities within a single project? Here is another example use case. I drew up the schematic for an LED sign panel. It has 10 8x8 LED blocks in two rows

Re: [Kicad-developers] GitLab migration

On 2019-11-25 11:03 a.m., Seth Hillbrand wrote: 2FA would be using something like Google Authenticator on your phone, a YubiKey or SMS message code to verify your login on a computer in addition to the password. It may not affect me as I'm a user of KiCad and occasional reporter of bugs.

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Selection appearance options

On 2019-11-21 11:01 a.m., Jonatan Liljedahl wrote: Here comes two patches regarding the selection appearance. I'm just curious as to what is the problem that the proposed patches are meant to address? (I may have missed the information in an earlier email). Is the idea to provide a much

Re: [Kicad-developers] Interpreting the ARC command

On 2019-11-14 5:43 p.m., Brian wrote: On 11/14/19 5:20 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote: It is always possible to draw with four contraints if you were to use center point, radius, start angle, end angle. There are different sets of constraints from which to pick.  The set of four you described

Re: [Kicad-developers] Interpreting the ARC command

On 2019-11-14 4:10 p.m., Brian wrote: A midpoint makes the arc over-constrained and introduces the potential for a case where the arc descriptor is not self-consistent (e.g. one constraint is not on the same arc). ??An arc specified by three constraints is always possible to draw; one with

Re: [Kicad-developers] Interpreting the ARC command

On 2019-11-11 7:14 a.m., Wayne Stambaugh wrote: Take a look at the legacy footprint library file format documentation[1] [snip]

Re: [Kicad-developers] fp-info-cache question

On 2019-07-23 11:47 a.m., Seth Hillbrand wrote: Could we write the global cache in the user's config directory next to where we write fp-lib-table? If we cache global, we might not need project-based caching. I'm not clear whether you are talking about caches of what items are available or

Re: [Kicad-developers] Arc Adjustment proposal

On 2019-07-10 2:35 p.m., Brian wrote: I'm not sure I'm convinced that start-mid-end is any more or less immune to invalidity than start-center-end. Instead of start-center-end what about center-start-angle where angle is a positive or negative angle to indicate CW or CCW? -- Cheers! Kevin.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Strange program version numbering in KiCad

On 2019-07-09 9:26 a.m., Steven A. Falco wrote: I'd vote for the .99 approach, assuming I get a vote. :-) Using .9 or .99 for the minor version number when the major version number is about to go up by 1 is a fairly common numbering system. Someone suggested using a tag instead. The problem

Re: [Kicad-developers] Strange program version numbering in KiCad

On 2019-07-08 5:10 p.m., Dino Ghilardi wrote: think about the linux kernel versioning number scheme: even subversion number means stable release. Odd subversion number means experimental/development branch. The kernel used to follow the odd/even numbering scheme but they stopped doing that

Re: [Kicad-developers] Strange program version numbering in KiCad

On 2019-07-08 4:47 p.m., Nick ??stergaard wrote: How is a number like 99 being any better than the latest release tag? The release tag doesn't appear in the title bar of the running program. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that

Re: [Kicad-developers] Strange program version numbering in KiCad

On 2019-07-08 2:38 p.m., Nick ??stergaard wrote: @Kevin, And the version is not just the tag and number of commits, but also the sha1. That is true when reporting bugs. I don't care about the sha1 when I want to make sure I am running the right version of KiCad. That is particularly

[Kicad-developers] Strange program version numbering in KiCad

Greetings, all. I just ran across something odd with the version number shown by the KiCad program(s). I compiled and installed git master. When I ran it the version number reported is 5.1.0.1195. As I also compile and run the 5.1 version I thought I had a mix up when I did the compile.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pcbnew file format

On 2019-07-05 3:55 p.m., Jeff Young wrote: No, thats just LaunchPad ???helping??? out. ??Heres a bitmap of it ok, thanks Jeff. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | distract the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pcbnew file format

On 2019-07-05 2:05 p.m., Wayne Stambaugh wrote: Looks good to me. If no one else objects, I see no reason not not to merge it. [snip] On 2019-07-05 09:46, Jeff Young wrote: On 5 Jul 2019, at 12:19, Jeff Young wrote: (setup (last_trace_width 0.25) (trace_clearance 0.2) No indenting to make

Re: [Kicad-developers] Arc editing in LibEdit

On 2019-07-01 7:21 a.m., Jeff Young wrote: Its on master (and so is in nightlies). Thanks, Jeff. The feature sounded experimental. I thought it might have been put in to a branch or made avaialable as a separate patch for testing. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/

Re: [Kicad-developers] Arc editing in LibEdit

On 6/29/19 11:12 AM, Jeff Young wrote: So Ive rewritten the LibEdit arc point handling to keep the end-points invariant when editing other points. Which branch of code includes the changes to LibEdit? -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH pcbnew half-rotate actions and shortcuts

On 2019-06-10 6:35 p.m., Andrew Lutsenko wrote: I like to keep rotation angle set to 90 because that covers 98% of cases and is it's faster to press R two or three times instead of 4 or 6 times (I frequently go the wrong way around since unfortunately R in pcbnew rotates ccw and R in eeschema

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pcbnew display origin transforms for v6

On 2019-05-06 8:11 a.m., John Beard wrote: * Tell people to use 3.9 or later (actually I don't know what options we have need what versions). I recently found an online clang configuration tool as I'm thinking of adding in git hooks to force a developer to follow a coding style we've talked

Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad_pcb, kicad_mod format change for daily build?

On 2019-04-21 12:46 p.m., Jeff Young wrote: KiCad will read them in either way (quoted or un-quoted). KiCad has always written them out with quotes if they had spaces in them (so other tools have always needed to handle quotes). Were just being more consistent now as theres no

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeSchema V6 - any thoughts as to tabbed schematics?

On Fri, 3 May 2019 at 14:06, Brian Piccioni wrote: Currently you have to open another instance of eeSchema or click through to sheets in order to see other sheets. Tabs would be more convenient than clicking on a sheet (or multiple levels of sheets), backing out, etc., at least in many

Re: [Kicad-developers] eemodern branch

On 2019-04-29 1:13 p.m., Wayne Stambaugh wrote: On 4/29/19 12:56 PM, Andy Peters wrote: (And now the nattering nabobs of negativity on the EEVBlog forum will have one less thing about which to complain.) I'm not holding my breath on that. Naw... they will just find something else to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project annuouncement.

On 2019-04-27 2:05 p.m., Wayne Stambaugh wrote: For those you who haven't heard yet, I made the announcement yesterday at KiCon that I am now work for WIT and I will be working full time on KiCad. I really excited about the possibilities for KiCad going forward. Congratulations, Wayne. I

Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad_pcb, kicad_mod format change for daily build?

On 15 Apr 2019, at 13:56, easyw wrote: recently I have noticed that both kicad_pcb and kicad_mod seems to have changed their format. It have been introduced double quotes for layers pads etc. [snip] (layers (0 F.Cu signal) (31 B.Cu signal) (layers (0 "F.Cu" signal) (31 "B.Cu"

Re: [Kicad-developers] 5.1 release

On 2019-03-10 5:39 p.m., Adam Wolf wrote: Nick, is the docs tarball ready? That is an interesting question. Who maintains the file format doc? The only version I can find is over 2 years old. I'm writing a script to convert the files from a schematic capture program I used to use in to a

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH 2/3] Fix line endings in pcb_calculator_frame_base.fbp

On 2019-03-19 11:06 a.m., Wayne Stambaugh wrote: I wasn't aware we were converting all wxFormbuilder file line endings to unix. I was under the impression that git could handle either Typical use is to use unix line endings in the repository and use the autocrlf feature of git to change the

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Option to not render 3D models for footprints

On 2019-03-14 4:30 a.m., Oliver Walters wrote: This has gone unresolved for a while now - if I put in some effort to rebase this, is there any likelihood it will be accepted? This patchset does involve a file format change to the PCB file but it is backwards compatible and introduces a

Re: [Kicad-developers] V6 merge update

On 2019-02-22 5:20 a.m., Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: At the minimum I would appreciate if clear notice is given when a new file format change is introduced and how it affects compatibility. The mentions of upcoming file format changes raises the question of whether the file format document is up to

Re: [Kicad-developers] [patch] GAL pixel alignment

On 2019-02-10 5:26 p.m., Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: The 3 attached patches add pixel alignment while drawing strokes in GAL (both Cairo and OpenGL), resulting in sharp and uniform width lines regardless of the zoom level and antialiasing settings. Thank you, Tomasz. I just applied it to my copy

[Kicad-developers] A trivial bug in a displayed string

Greetings. For both the v5 and git master versions of Kicad in the file drc_erc_item.cpp on line 46 there is the string: Pin connected to some others pins but no pin to drive it There should be no s on "others". The string might be better as: Pin connected to other pins but no pin to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Some of our symbols currently still have invisible power pins. We want to fix this but want to give you guys a chance for input first.

On 2018-11-07 7:55 a.m., Wayne Stambaugh wrote: Am 2018-11-06 16:41, schrieb Rene Pöschl: Sadly we did not come around to fix all symbols before the v5 release. [snip]>> Do we need to do this during 5.1?  Or can it simply be done in the v6 branch of the libraries? If we need to do this

Re: [Kicad-developers] Notice: GAL branch pushed to master

On 2018-10-09 08:11 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: Let the bug reports begin! Maybe we should give some sort of prize to the first person who complains that they like the old wxDC canvas better. ;) The first comment I have about the change is that my preference settings were affected. When I

Re: [Kicad-developers] New version of net selector up

On 2018-09-29 11:55 AM, Jeff Young wrote: It already works that way. (There’s an implied * at the start and at the end of the filter text.) [snip] On 29 Sep 2018, at 16:52, Kevin Cozens wrote: Will the filtering feature eventually find all nets containing the entered string rather than

Re: [Kicad-developers] New version of net selector up

On 2018-09-29 10:37 AM, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: Here's another screencast from 6.0.0-rc1-dev-644-g26838c680. Keys and mouse are captured with key-mon. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ce8_xBQpwVsCEReSu1cDDqio2SwNGMTd/view?usp=sharing [snip] 3. Filtering takes and shows characters, but it

Re: [Kicad-developers] Code style autoformat

On 2018-09-22 07:18 AM, Zoltan Gyarmati wrote: As Seth (rightfully) pointed out, my patch didn't fully follow the coding guidelines. Before i started to manually fix the issues, i looked whether there is any infrastructure for autoformatting in the source tree, and i found: * a clang-format

Re: [Kicad-developers] Ubuntu PPA for Kicad 5: unmet dependencies

On 2018-09-12 12:18 PM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote: Looks like the issue might be that libwxgtk3 is at 3.0.0 in 14.04 and KiCad wants 3.0.2 Yes, that would be the problem. You will either need a PPA for a newer version of wx or you will have to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Ubuntu PPA for Kicad 5: unmet dependencies

On 2018-09-12 08:06 AM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote: I just tried switching to the new kicad-5 PPA fot that but I am running into an installation error [snip] The following packages have unmet dependencies: kicad : Depends: libwxbase3.0-0 (>= 3.0.2) but it is not going to be installed Depends:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Anything I can do for GALification?

On 2018-08-27 03:43 PM, Jeff Young wrote: But when I do a make install I’m getting: [  1%] creating 'boost scratch repo' specifically for boost to track boost patches make[2]: bzr: No such file or directory make[2]: ***

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Update doxygen logo

On 2018-08-05 08:22 AM, John Beard wrote: Eagle-eyed (is that an offensive slur on a KiCad list?) Nick noticed that the doxygen header logo is actually slightly incorrect. Presumably I used the wrong file for a source, not sure where it came from! Attached are the two versions: spot the

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] Op-amp symbol icons

On 2018-07-26 06:00 AM, Andrey Kuznetsov wrote: Hmm, tough choice [snip] The reason I kept 6C is because the other icons might only look good in 1px body. 6D looks too close and 6B looks too far, so unless there's an intermediate that'll look good (doesn't matter if it's on the grid or not)

Re: [Kicad-developers] 5.1 UI feedback

On 2018-07-18 08:32 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: Attached are the updated screen shots. One minor point. In the first screen shot the icon with the books and magnifying glass is on the right side of the dialog the first time it appears but is just after the end of the entry field the second

Re: [Kicad-developers] Vacation

On 2018-06-30 11:53 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: Tomorrow morning I will be leaving for vacation and out of the country all next week. [snip] I will be in Paris, France during this week. Bonnes vacances. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix overbar drawing for non-italic text

On 2018-06-22 10:35 AM, Andrzej Wolski wrote: If you try to shorten the right side of the bar, for some characters it will look really bad, and in case of "I" it will turn into dot. This is before patch: Thanks for the detailed before and after images. They more clearly show the issues with

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Save through hole pads color to config file

On 2018-06-22 06:56 AM, Andrzej Wolski wrote: From ebfb1d5cc9ebdeddaa518f14e7c86b7e5c1bbdaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrzej Wolski Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 01:35:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Save through hole pads color to config file This seems like it changes the contents of an existing

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix overbar drawing for non-italic text

On 2018-06-22 07:01 AM, Andrzej Wolski wrote: This is an illustration of what this patch do: https://imgur.com/a/GxIeLkA Hm... did the patch go the wrong way with the change to the position and length of the bar over non-italicized text? Before the bar started at the left side of the letter

Re: [Kicad-developers] strange debug output

On 2018-04-15 03:30 PM, Marco Ciampa wrote: When I fire kicad->pcbnew from command line I see these strange messages: 15:01:34: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'PNG file' 15:01:34: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'JPEG file' 15:01:34: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler

Re: [Kicad-developers] New Footprint libs and wizard issues

On 2018-04-09 10:21 AM, jp charras wrote: It has an issue: if I try to enter a lowercase char, it is converted to the corresponding uppercase char (as expected), but the cursor moves to the beginning of the text after the char is inserted. The simplest solution is to do the conversion from

Re: [Kicad-developers] New Footprint libs and wizard issues

On 2018-04-07 06:42 PM, kristoffer Ödmark wrote: Agreed, hereis a patch for that :) - Kristoffer On 2018-04-06 17:18, Kevin Cozens wrote: [snip] I added MYSYSMOD as a custom path ages ago. What I find odd about the dialog boxes that let you add paths is that they won't accept lower case

Re: [Kicad-developers] New Footprint libs and wizard issues

On 2018-04-06 06:30 AM, kristoffer Ödmark wrote: Attached is a patch that adds support for custom environment paths. Previously the wizard would only accept KISYSMOD, KIPRJMOD and the github one. I added MYSYSMOD as a custom path ages ago. What I find odd about the dialog boxes that let you

Re: [Kicad-developers] rc2

On 2018-04-02 06:42 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: Things have quieted down quit a bit so we should be close to an rc2 release. I saw a 3D viewer crash report but it looks like it might be a video driver issue. Are there any other outstanding issues we need to fix before rc2 is tagged? I am

Re: [Kicad-developers] What is the purpose of multiple 3D models?

On 2018-03-31 01:04 PM, jp charras wrote: A TO3 package with its heat-sink needs six 3D shapes (for guys who really *like* realistic 3D views of course...): the TO3 package. its heat-sink. 2 nuts. 2 bolts. Add one more if the TO-3 is in a socket. :) -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/

Re: [Kicad-developers] crash on last commits running cvpcb...

On 2018-03-25 07:54 PM, Jeff Young wrote: Fix committed. If someone on Linux could try it out that would be great…. CvPcb no longer crashes on startup on my Linux based machine. I still can't use it to assign a footprint from Package_DIP to a 7400 IC on my board but that is another problem.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pushed change

On 2018-03-12 05:03 PM, Jeff Young wrote: Well, my build is still running so I can’t confirm the fixes yet, but since I already broke the build for some I went ahead and pushed “fixes”. My build with latest hash code of f32f14dc8 completed without error. -- Cheers! Kevin.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pushed change

On 2018-03-12 03:19 PM, Jeff Young wrote: I just pushed a change which removes a bunch of unnecessary boilerplate. But it occurs to me that maybe it’s necessary with pickier compilers? Anyway, if someone could try it on Windows and/or Unix that would be great. Oops. Something broke. I'm

Re: [Kicad-developers] Git noob question

On 2018-03-11 11:52 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote: That sounds a bit risky. Using the stash and popping can make you lose your local changes if you decide to abort a potential merge conflict. IIRC. Commiting changes are generally safer. Or you could use git stash apply instead. The risk of lose

Re: [Kicad-developers] Git noob question

On 2018-03-03 03:50 PM, Maciej Suminski wrote: If we are speaking about git tips - I think 'git pull --rebase' is even simpler in this case. I have a script I call "gitpull" that does that but it also does a "git stash" before the pull and a "git stash pop" after the pull. -- Cheers!

Re: [Kicad-developers] Potential issue with 49486b83

On 2018-03-06 02:19 PM, Jeff Young wrote: I’m going to merge a conditional compilation fix for this (I agree that we don’t want to chase anyone away from the debug versions). I'll test the patch on my machine when you have it ready. Thanks, Jeff. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/

Re: [Kicad-developers] Potential issue with 49486b83

On 2018-03-06 01:40 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote: I just finished building 49486b83 for Linux (Fedora 27) and immediately upon starting eechema from the main kicad window, I get an assert in src/gtk/scrolwin.cpp at line 213. I ran across the same problem yesterday and filed a bug report.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Git noob question

On 2018-03-02 03:28 PM, Jeff Young wrote: Before I go and make a hash of everything, can someone please validate the following. I have a bunch of 6.0 work on my master. I have a 5.0stable branch that I use for 5.0. If I want to push changes for RC2, I’d do: git push origin

Re: [Kicad-developers] PPA: KiCad 5.0

On 2018-02-26 05:15 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote: Does it mean there are no more documentation updates for 5.0 foreseen/accepted? Have the file format docs been updated to reflect the recent changes? -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that distract

Re: [Kicad-developers] IPC-2581

On 2018-02-20 11:19 AM, Ouabache Designworks wrote: Does Kicad have anyone working with these folks? [snip] http://www.ipc2581.com/articles-and-blogs/ I took a look at the website. It sounds interesting but they don't have a lot of information available on the site. Part of what I see is

[Kicad-developers] Update needed for AUTHORS.txt file

Greetings. Some time ago one of the messages to this mailing list made me look at the AUTHORS.txt file. It says "See also CHANGELOG.txt for contributors." but there is no such file. The most recent changelog file is the CHANGELOG-2012.txt file. The comment about where to look for the names

Re: [Kicad-developers] building without ngspice?

On 2018-02-13 10:50 AM, Adam Wolf wrote: I am trying to build from master, but even with -DKICAD_SPICE=OFF, I'm getting: CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND. I ran across the same problem. If you run cmake without setting the SPICE

Re: [Kicad-developers] Stable branch update

On 2018-02-12 12:52 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: Obviously I did not get the stable 5 branch created over the weekend. I was busy patch reviewing and merging. [snip]> I should be able to get v5 branched this weekend so going forward we have a few bugs tagged for rc2 which I'm hoping take less

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

On 2018-02-08 07:02 AM, kristoffer Ödmark wrote: for example, disbling rendering of front footprints disables all the F.Silk, F.Fab, adhesive and many more. Disabling the rendering of Text on the front only disables text belonging to a footprint, no other. Basically the Render tab does not do

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

On 2018-02-07 04:25 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: If you use legacy renderer then turn off Pads Front and Pads Back under the Render tab on the right the pads disappear. If you are in GAL mode they remain visible. Given that the legacy canvas will hopefully be removed in the v6 development

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

On 2018-02-07 04:04 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: I agree with you on this. I don't know why the layer setting is ignored and the pads are shown anyway but it's always been this way. I would rather the logic be to respect the layer setting. If you use legacy renderer then turn off Pads Front

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCad talk at FOSDEM

On 2018-02-05 01:24 AM, Andrey Kuznetsov wrote: The talk is now up! Thanks for the heads up. I watched the video talk. As I have been using git master for quite a while now I knew about most of the new features mentioned. I didn't know about the node highlighting until I heard Wayne mention

Re: [Kicad-developers] Dealing with multifunction pins (Symbol)

On 2018-02-04 05:53 AM, Simon Richter wrote: On 30.01.2018 16:01, Augusto Fraga Giachero wrote: I've been designing schematics with some stm32 parts using the standard Kicad libraries, and a lot of these microcontrollers has 10+ functions multiplexed in each I/O pin. [snip] That is one of

Re: [Kicad-developers] GUI garbage...?

On 2018-02-02 03:24 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: https://misc.c4757p.com/kicad-is-very-broken.png Anyone have any idea what could possibly cause this...? What are we supposed to see in that image? Which operating system are you using? -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds

Re: [Kicad-developers] Is this OSX-specific or not?

On 2018-01-26 09:59 AM, Jeff Young wrote: I’m trying to see if a bug is OSX-specific or not. Open board in pcbnew. Open Plot dialog. Click on the Run DRC button at the bottom. Click on Cancel in the DRC dialog. Can you now close the Plot dialog? I'm using Linux and I am able to close the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Any devs using Linux / Mint able to reproduce 1706457?

On 2018-01-22 03:52 PM, Jeff Young wrote: It’s a crash bug that has been reported by a couple of users: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1706457 . Can we reproduce it? I had something similar happen to me after I had applied an update to my video card drivers. I needed to reboot the

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix for 3D model offset

On 2018-01-10 09:05 AM, Jörg Hermann wrote: Wayne disapproves the introduction of a version number. While I see the benefit - data format is always crystal clear, it makes parsers more complex all the time. From a maintenance pov I agree with Wayne, not introducing a version number. With

Re: [Kicad-developers] Libedit and Modedit Icons

On 2018-01-09 12:05 PM, Rene Pöschl wrote: (I can't tell you how often i clicked load symbol instead of update symbol while working on the reorganization of the official lib.) Pop up tooltips when the mouse is over the icons can also help with that problem. -- Cheers! Kevin.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Default Canvas for v5

On 2017-12-31 12:35 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: We could also write about this in the release notes. That would be a good idea. +1 -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that distract Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's

Re: [Kicad-developers] small heads-up...

On 2017-12-29 09:50 AM, Marco Ciampa wrote: Open and see for yourself... eeschema/dialogs/dialog_bom_editor.cpp:263: warning: unterminated string literal I don't immediately see why it would say that. I do see that the line has a typo. The string in line 262 starts with "Symbo Table" instead

Re: [Kicad-developers] "Won't Fix" candidates

On 2017-12-28 02:41 PM, Jeff Young wrote: The bug database is a bit on the unwieldy side.  I think we should clean out those bugs that we aren’t ever going to fix. You don't want to delete bugs that you won't ever fix. Close them and mark them as "won't fix". If someone else tries to report

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