On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Edwin van den Oetelaar < oetelaar.automatiser...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Brian Sidebotham < > brian.sidebot...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. > > > > To me it sounds like a "create project (from template)" wizard, that could > be created using the new scripting interface. > I would not suggest implementing using scripts instead of file-copies. > I mean I would suggest using scripts instead of just file copies. (invert my statement) > You could also do stuff like : > Create new project -> select/define board size (eg euro card/arduino > board/your standard) -> select /define mounting holes -> select/define > default width/spacing of tracks (technology) > And an option like : take these parameters from existing project... > Just a thought, > Edwin >
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