On 11/18/2013 01:08 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > On 11/18/2013 1:11 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:25:16AM -0600, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >>> I find KiCad barely useable. I am in no way satisfied with KiCad. In my >>> view it is >>> however making progress, although more like 3 steps forward and 1 step back. >> >> I do not agree with that. It's *far* from perfect, but beats every low >> cost EDA package I've ever tried. YMMV, depending on the kind of board >> you're doing (good luck with an heavily impedance controlled layout or >> modern things like via-on-pad). I recently did an UHF design (RFID >> stuff), not exactly the easiest thing but with care (and *a lot* of >> review) everything worked out. >> >> At the present time I'd say it's like autocad without any domain >> specific addon, i.e. almost anything can be done but not a lot easily >> and quickly. >> >> ATM the thing still I mostly miss are inter-class design rules (i.e. >> having 220VAC and 5VDC on the same board). Need a lot of time to verify >> and recheck. Failures in safety certification tend to be expensive:( >> >> Also a better 'drag trace' would be even more useful for me than the P&S >> router. Maybe it's a workflow issue of mine, I don't know... >> >> The 1 step back you are mentioning is probably due to the constant >> changing evolution (for example I really don't like the new opengl view >> but that's probably because it's still little more than a proof of >> concept). Also probably something broke in the change module due to the >> new footprint library table. More testing (a lot more) is needed. Still >> I see asserts popping up sometimes when cancelling operations in pcbnew, >> for example. >> > > Lorenzo, > > Please describe the steps you used to generate the error in the change > module code because I have not been tripped up by this error yet. > Better yet, please file a bug report so it doesn't get lost in this > email thread and I can get it fixed.
I fixed one like that last week. The assert would fire when you aborted a module selection from within the footprint browser. Debug build only. _______________________________________________ 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