Re: [Kicad-developers] About MCAD integration

2013-05-05 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 06:50:50PM -0700, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: > checking information such as panel cutouts for PCB mounted parts. In > practice I've taken IDF3 files and replaced critical components with > adequate 3D MCAD models; this isn't so bad in many (most?) cases, but > I believe we can i

Re: [Kicad-developers] About MCAD integration

2013-05-05 Thread Bil Morris
We would like IDF3 support. I have previously gotten it working with Eagle. http://www.iheartrobotics.com/2009/04/ecad-vs-mcad-round-1-fight.html I think IDF export can best be implemented in the Python API. It is a shame that most of the opensource MCAD tools are broken. WebGL based solutions ar

Re: [Kicad-developers] About MCAD integration

2013-05-05 Thread Jonathan Friedman, PhD
> Any ideas on this? IIRC there were some people interested in this kind of > thing. Hey guys, greetings from CircuitHub. Since you asked... ;-) ...here's what we're thinking in the 3D space: We're about to preview release 2D KiCAD support (symbols and footprints). We're also working on a 3D so

Re: [Kicad-developers] About MCAD integration

2013-05-05 Thread Cirilo Bernardo
- Original Message - > From: Lorenzo Marcantonio > To: Kicad Developers > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, May 5, 2013 10:29 PM > Subject: [Kicad-developers] About MCAD integration > > People keep asking about this... at the moment DXF is the only useful > way to export a board to a 3D mcad (the

[Kicad-developers] Ghosting In EESchema (Need to implement a redraw after move command?)

2013-05-05 Thread Travis Ayres
I'm currently using EESchema build 2013-04-19 BZR 4011 stable; I know other people can reproduce this issue (perhaps it is fixed in a newer version?) There seems to be quite a bit of ghosting in EESchema. I assume this can be fixed by forcing a screen redraw (The same as pressing the F3 button). I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Page setting dialog

2013-05-05 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 08:51:40PM +0200, yann jautard wrote: > I absolutly don't know anything to WX, but with other UI libs, this > allow to "live check" the user entry, and for example popup a > warning when entering text in an int field. Yes, if it did something like thing that would be the re

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plot and drill file generation via scripts

2013-05-05 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 10:54:17AM -0500, Adam Wolf wrote: > Launchpad in order to report the possible bug. The usual response is > "I'd rather not. I don't really want to get yelled at." That's strange... if you follow the user mailing list they seem sufficiently satisfied about bug response..

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plot and drill file generation via scripts

2013-05-05 Thread Adam Wolf
Hi Dick, I'm not concerned about my patch at this point. I'm concerned about the level of respect on the Kicad-devs mailing list. Regardless of the merits of my patch, after I spend a bunch of time volunteering, I should be treated with respect, right? When people report Kicad bugs to me, think

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plot and drill file generation via scripts

2013-05-05 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 10:09:59AM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > *) how many functions, say member functions, are there that operate on a > BOARD, that need > Clearly this is a small problem space. However, the size is somewhat > unknown, in as much > as we don't know what will really be need

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plot and drill file generation via scripts

2013-05-05 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 05/03/2013 04:23 PM, Adam Wolf wrote: > Hi Dick, > > I appreciate the 1187 commits. If I didn't, I would have simply > created another PPA and maintained a testing branch, selling this > functionality to board houses. > > Can you tell me (privately if need be) how much Wayne and Layne would >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Plot and drill file generation via scripts

2013-05-05 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
BOARD_ACTIONS: was/is a potential solution to a relatively small problem space, whose size is given by the answer to the following question: *) how many functions, say member functions, are there that operate on a BOARD, that need no GUI, and must be used by both the frame and by top level pyth

[Kicad-developers] Page setting dialog

2013-05-05 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
I'm adding the box for the date. Even if I totally suck at UI programming (especially with wx) there is one thing that is not clear to me: why each text box has an event for text change which takes the text from the control, put it in the dialog member variable and refresh the page minisample? Sho

Re: [Kicad-developers] About MCAD integration

2013-05-05 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 02:29:39PM +0200, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: As usual I forgot the file :D Have fun -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl ISO-10303-21; HEADER; /* Generated by software containing ST-Developer * from STEP Tools, Inc. (www.steptools.com) */ /* OPTION: using custom schema-na

[Kicad-developers] About MCAD integration

2013-05-05 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
People keep asking about this... at the moment DXF is the only useful way to export a board to a 3D mcad (then you estrude it 1,6mm, usually, but you don't have component boundaries and stuff). IDF3 *is* plausible to make, but does actually someone want it? In SolidWorks AFAIK you have to buy a sp