I am currently trying something similar to that idea. The ammount of different drill sizes influenced the cost of a board. the acual size of your copper restring around the drill not so much. so having the ability to input different values for the drill _can_ make your board much more expensive.
That combined with a nice input interface for via types and start/end layer in the design rules is what I am aiming for. later the via properties dialog can display the dropdown for changing a via. The dropdown in the design frame can be used to select a via type prior to placing it. Cheers, Bastian 2017-08-31 9:39 GMT+02:00 Maciej Sumiński <maciej.sumin...@cern.ch>: > Hi Mathias, > > On 08/25/2017 09:55 PM, Mathias Grimmberger wrote: > > > > Hi Maciej, > > > > Maciej Sumiński <maciej.sumin...@cern.ch> writes: > > > >> Hi Matthias, > >> > >> Your patch looks good to me. I would love to see the same change done > >> for via hole and diameter text controls. > > > > Let me first describe what I imagined for that, because it may be > > considered too weird. > > > > The problem with the vias is that in the design rules there is a pair of > > values, via diameter and drill. > > > > I imagined turning the via diameter text control into a dropbox. The > > values shown in the dropbox would be the value pairs from the design > > rules, just like shown on the toolbar. > > > > Selecting an entry from the dropbox would then set both the via diameter > > and the drill. > > > > Directly entering something into either control would of course not > > influence the other one. > > > > Does that sound useable or is it too much "magic"? > > I agree, it is not as simple as with track widths, so it requires a bit > of "magic". > > What do you think about putting in each dropbox single values (either > diameter or drill size) followed by value pairs? If the user selects a > single value, the other setting is not affected. In case of choosing a > pair - both values are modified. > > For example, via size settings: > diameter | drill > ---------+------ > 1 | 0.5 > 1.5 | 1 > 1.7 | 1.2 > > Would give the following choices in dropboxes: > > Via diameter: 1 > 1.5 > 1.7 > 1/0.5 > 1.5/1 > 1.7/1.2 > > Via drill: 0.5 > 1 > 1.2 > 1/0.5 > 1.5/1 > 1.7/1.2 > > Regards, > Orson > > > Thanks, > > > > MGri > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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