Hi Guys, I was recently thinking it would be cool to implement a templating system for KiCad projects. This means including more than just a project file as the basis of a new project.
Particularly for people doing Arduino projects and the like, it would be very handy to be able to select a template when starting a new project as a kickstart. The template would be able to consist of any file type, so could include various schematic files, and a board file. To make it universal, I think it would be good to include several templates with the KiCad install, but also have a search path (or environmental variable pointing to a path) for user templates. I see a template as a simple directory of files. It need not be any more complicated than that. It would be easy to implement, and if the default project (which now only consists of a project file) were to also include a schematic and board file, then any issue of a modal nag box would be eradicated anyway. It should be a simple directory wildcard copy and rename. All we would need to do is define a template structure which could consist of a simple text file to provide a description of the template, perhaps possibly with a few images. These description and image files would not need to be copied to the new project directory so there would need to be a defined structure and/or naming convention for the template files. Does this sound like a valid proposal? I'd like to add this to the project, so if it feels like a good direction to move in, we can hammer out the details for a templating system. Best Regards, Brian. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp