Re: [Kicad-developers] vanishing technical layers

2014-09-14 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 02:52:43PM -0700, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: > My question is, how do we want these layers to behave? Do we > want to control their enabled/disabled state via the Layers > Setup GUI or is it better for them to be permanently visible? AFAIK it was only the dialog that was unfini

Re: [Kicad-developers] vanishing technical layers

2014-09-14 Thread jp charras
Le 14/09/2014 23:46, Nick Østergaard a écrit : > Because they are a layerr, I would at least expect that I can toggle > the visibility of the layers, and I guess it is best for the user if > it can also be set in the layers setup dialog. So what I think is best > is tha the visibility controls that

Re: [Kicad-developers] vanishing technical layers

2014-09-14 Thread Nick Østergaard
Because they are a layerr, I would at least expect that I can toggle the visibility of the layers, and I guess it is best for the user if it can also be set in the layers setup dialog. So what I think is best is tha the visibility controls that apply to those layers is the same as for the current l

Re: [Kicad-developers] New icons for KiCAD

2014-09-14 Thread Fabrizio Tappero
Dear Konstantin, thank you for your e-mail. A appreciate greatly all the improvements you have made. I just would like to know if you have started your modifications from the current icon set that KiCad is distributed with. I am asking because I see from your screenshots that some icons seem to com

[Kicad-developers] vanishing technical layers

2014-09-14 Thread Cirilo Bernardo
I noticed that F/B Courtyards and Fab layers disappear from the layer list after making changes in DesignRules->LayersSetup. I have to touch the dialog boxes and other code to add the Underlay1/2 layers for reconstructing PCB layouts from images, so I can work on this and even submit a patch separa

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project proposal

2014-09-14 Thread Cirilo Bernardo
- Original Message - > From: Marco Ciampa > To: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Cc: > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 4:05 AM > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Project proposal > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 02:47:02PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> Since Javier sort of let the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project proposal

2014-09-14 Thread Maciej Sumiński
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/14/14 19:32, Nick Østergaard wrote: [snip] > I think the model can work for KiCad, but I still wonder how > exactly the progress should be tracked. Will it be a page > kicad-pcb.org or just one thread here on the list? I think the Launchpad coul

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project proposal

2014-09-14 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 02:47:02PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Since Javier sort of let the cat out of the bag, I thought now would be > a good time as my first official announcement as project leader to talk > about creating a stable release of KiCad. As you may have read in > Javier's post t

Re: [Kicad-developers] Project proposal

2014-09-14 Thread Nick Østergaard
2014-08-30 20:47 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh : > Since Javier sort of let the cat out of the bag, I thought now would be > a good time as my first official announcement as project leader to talk > about creating a stable release of KiCad. As you may have read in > Javier's post that this stable rele

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: Footprint wizard helpers

2014-09-14 Thread jp charras
Le 11/09/2014 22:32, John Beard a écrit : > Hi, > > I have a patch (fpw-overhaul.diff) for the Python footprint wizard > helpers. This adds a few more drawing functions, such as for circles, > and also uses a matrix-based transform stack with greatly simplifies > constructing footprints consisting

Re: [Kicad-developers] Layer for reference and value text

2014-09-14 Thread Carl Poirier
Thanks for the explanation, I see now how it can be useful to change it. I will specify the default in the convention. Regards, Carl On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio < l.marcanto...@logossrl.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:52:53AM -0400, Carl Poirier wrote: > > So

Re: [Kicad-developers] Layer for reference and value text

2014-09-14 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:52:53AM -0400, Carl Poirier wrote: > So it now makes sense to add to the library convention that value and > reference must be on silk? It make sense because it's the default; I personally I'd have greater use for reference on fabrication (since the refdes on silk it's m

Re: [Kicad-developers] Layer for reference and value text

2014-09-14 Thread Carl Poirier
So it now makes sense to add to the library convention that value and reference must be on silk? On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Brian Sidebotham < brian.sidebot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 September 2014 06:17, Lorenzo Marcantonio > wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 12:39:33AM -0400, Carl Po

Re: [Kicad-developers] Layer for reference and value text

2014-09-14 Thread Brian Sidebotham
On 14 September 2014 06:17, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 12:39:33AM -0400, Carl Poirier wrote: >> Is there any way to have it not on silkscreen, besides editing the >> .kicad_mod file by hand? > > Committed yesterday; now the text module dialog contains the layer combo like