[Kicad-developers] While creating footprints this thought came to mind

2014-04-12 Thread Ing. Damiano Bolla
Good mornig to everybody While creating a footprint for a QFN64 I realized that footprint creation would be a breeze if there was a "clone + (dx,dy)" button in the pad editor Let me explain it better 90% of the time I spend while creating new footprints for SMD is in adjusting the location

Re: [Kicad-developers] Building KiCad on Linux

2014-04-12 Thread Fabrizio Tappero
Thanks Alberto, that would be great. Regards Fabrizio On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Alberto Medrano wrote: > I swear... :) > > But, next monday I'll install in another computer, so, I'll try only with > libboost-thread-dev, libglew-dev and libcgal-dev and give you some feedback. > > Sorry, m

Re: [Kicad-developers] Building KiCad on Linux

2014-04-12 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 4/11/2014 7:30 PM, Alberto Medrano wrote: > I swear... :) > > But, next monday I'll install in another computer, so, I'll try only > with libboost-thread-dev, libglew-dev and libcgal-dev and give you some > feedback. > > Sorry, my English is poorly. > > Alberto You should not need to install

Re: [Kicad-developers] While creating footprints this thought came to mind

2014-04-12 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
Damiano, I second your suggestion, but want to expand it a little, and ask for new features like array (1D and 2D) of pads. when you select that array, you give the size of the pad, the pitch and the direction. That would make life easier for the crazy shapes that we have with new parts like lar

Re: [Kicad-developers] While creating footprints this thought came to mind

2014-04-12 Thread jp charras
Le 12/04/2014 17:54, Jean-Paul Louis a écrit : > Damiano, > > I second your suggestion, but want to expand it a little, and ask > for new features like array (1D and 2D) of pads. when you select > that array, you give the size of the pad, the pitch and the > direction. That would make life easier

Re: [Kicad-developers] While creating footprints this thought came to mind

2014-04-12 Thread jp charras
Le 12/04/2014 18:24, jp charras a écrit : > Le 12/04/2014 17:54, Jean-Paul Louis a écrit : >> Damiano, >> >> I second your suggestion, but want to expand it a little, and ask >> for new features like array (1D and 2D) of pads. when you select >> that array, you give the size of the pad, the pitch a

[Kicad-developers] Trace length tunning/matching for Kicad

2014-04-12 Thread Pierre Parent
I've created a branch for this feature: lp:~pierre-parent-k/kicad/length-tunning ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help

Re: [Kicad-developers] Trace length tunning/matching for Kicad

2014-04-12 Thread Travis Ayres
Could we spell it "tuning"? On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Pierre Parent wrote: > I've created a branch for this feature: > > lp:~pierre-parent-k/kicad/length-tunning > > ___ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : k

Re: [Kicad-developers] While creating footprints this thought came to mind

2014-04-12 Thread Jean-Paul Louis
Jean-Pierre, Thanks for the tip, it is a great help. But this is usable until you want to use a 144 QFP or worse a 900pin BGA. and suddenly dealing with the pin numbering become a nightmare. My $0.02, Jean-Paul (AC9GH) On Apr 12, 2014, at 12:33 PM, jp charras wrote: > Le 12/04/2014 18:24, jp

Re: [Kicad-developers] Trace length tunning/matching for Kicad

2014-04-12 Thread Maciej Sumiński
On 04/11/2014 06:44 PM, Pierre Parent wrote: Hi, Im' new here. My name is Pierre. I've started to develop for kicad a tool for trace length tunning. Trace length tunning is an important tool which is lacking when designing more complex boards in particular board with DDR/DDR2/DDR3 ram. For exam

[Kicad-developers] Static initialization order fiasco

2014-04-12 Thread Alexander Lunev
This week I tried to build recent revisions of KiCad. Every attempt I built them, Pcbnew fell with segmentation fault. I tried different versions of wxWidgets with different options. It did not help. It was especially strange because other developers told me that they can build and run the same

Re: [Kicad-developers] Static initialization order fiasco

2014-04-12 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:56:24PM -0700, Alexander Lunev wrote: > As it turned out, the issue is with undefined static initialization order. Yay for usual C++ sickness on 'obvious' details... IIRC it usually warns for these things. Maybe similar ones and not this in particular. C++ is becoming u

Re: [Kicad-developers] Static initialization order fiasco

2014-04-12 Thread Henner Zeller
On 12 April 2014 13:46, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:56:24PM -0700, Alexander Lunev wrote: >> As it turned out, the issue is with undefined static initialization order. > > Yay for usual C++ sickness on 'obvious' details... IIRC it usually warns > for these things. Maybe

Re: [Kicad-developers] Static initialization order fiasco

2014-04-12 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 04/12/2014 02:56 PM, Alexander Lunev wrote: > This week I tried to build recent revisions of KiCad. Every attempt I built > them, Pcbnew > fell with segmentation fault. I tried different versions of wxWidgets with > different > options. It did not help. It was especially strange because other