Sounds good, Wayne. Currently I am in fact using the full resolution for placement, unless the option to round to 50 mils is enabled. I'm working on a patch to make the vertical spacing flexible, at the moment, so should have that ready soon - I'll submit it as an incremental patch.
Thanks Chris On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:39:25AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Chris, I'll commit the latest patch as is. You can tweak it as time > goes by. This will also give other developers and users a chance to > comment on it as well. > > Technically there is no reason not to use the full resolution of > eeschema (0.001") when placing the fields rather than using a fixed grid > spacing. This way the field spacing could be flexible. Maybe you could > use a fixed distance between each field so that no matter what the text > height is, the spacing will always be constant. It's something to think > about. > > On 12/12/2015 4:17 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > > Wayne, would you rather I make this change and submit an updated monolithic > > patch (will take a few days), or would you rather I make a second patch on > > top of this one to be applied in a second commit? > > > > JP, the horizontal grid is already flexible, but the autoplacer doesn't do > > vertical texts. How would that even work? It has to arrange them in a grid > > somehow. Texts are always placed horizontally with respect to the sheet. > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 07:43:47PM +0100, jp charras wrote: > >> Le 12/12/2015 18:26, Chris Pavlina a écrit : > >>> I actually thought a bit about that, and wasn't sure how to reconcile > >>> "make the labels look nice" with "we like 50mil grids". But then, I went > >>> off-grid for horizontal _anyway_, so... *shrug* > >>> > >>> It'll take some reworking of the placement code to make the vertical > >>> grid flexible - not something I'd probably bother doing on my own, but > >>> if other people want it, let me know and I'll have no problem > >>> implementing that. > >>> > >> > >> The 50 mils grid is good (read: mandatory) to place pins. > >> So "we like this grid" for connected items (pins, labels, wires ..) > >> > >> But for graphics items a smaller grid is often needed. > >> > >> Fields can be seen as graphics items. > >> I am thinking a smaller grid like 10 mils could be used to place them. > >> > >> (the horizontal grid should be also flexible, especially for vertical > >> texts) > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> -- > >> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
