[Kicad-developers] hotkeys under linux

2016-06-20 Thread Marco Ciampa
Recently I updated my laptop so chances are that I did somthing weird. Anyway now my kicad (dev version) hotkeys do not consider any CTRL/ALT/SHIFT key composition regardless of what is written onto the kicad menu but it fires command just with the letter key pressure (ex. w for wire in Eeschema.

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: change 3D cache directory

2016-06-20 Thread Bernhard Stegmaier
… maybe patchwork could help? http://jk.ozlabs.org/projects/patchwork/ I have seen it on some other locations and found it quite nice. I don’t know how it works, though. Regards, Bernhard > On 20 Jun 2016, at 22:00, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > Ciri

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: change 3D cache directory

2016-06-20 Thread Cirilo Bernardo
No problem, I should be more careful not to submit broken patches. :) On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > Cirilo, > > Please ignore my last email. I see that you revised the patch. The > revise one compiles fine. Sorry about the noise. I need to do a better > job of ke

Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D-Viewer - Request for merge evaluation

2016-06-20 Thread Jakub Kozdon
Hi Mário, Hope that you got the images. No, they was created from Eagle using Eagle3D [1 ] which I tweaked a little and some models I created (for instance LEDs with refractive index). Yes, it wa

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: change 3D cache directory

2016-06-20 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Cirilo, Please ignore my last email. I see that you revised the patch. The revise one compiles fine. Sorry about the noise. I need to do a better job of keeping up with the patches. Thanks, Wayne On 6/18/2016 4:00 AM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: > At the moment the 3D cache data is written to a

Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D-Viewer - Request for merge evaluation

2016-06-20 Thread Mário Luzeiro
Hi Jakub, Thanks for sharing it. Were they created with KiCad? How are you creating the POV-ray file and what manual operations do you need ? Not taking in account the anti-aliasing and the image resolution, IMO you can get already similar or better (depends on personal preferences) renders tha

Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D-Viewer - Request for merge evaluation

2016-06-20 Thread firewalker
Also the new 3D is really fast with Intel VGAs. No more freezes no more segfaults. https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1511370 On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Mário Luzeiro wrote: > Hi Wayne, > Thanks for had time to testing it. > > > although I'm not 100% sure what it buys us > > For an occ

Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D-Viewer - Request for merge evaluation

2016-06-20 Thread Jakub Kozdon
Hi Mário, I think that setup should be simple. So maybe something as Antialiasing: none, low, medium, high; Shadows: checkbox; Reflections: checkbox. All with simple hover help which explain that setting right this value will make render to take longer/shorter time. Yes. Examples are attache

Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D-Viewer - Request for merge evaluation

2016-06-20 Thread Mário Luzeiro
Hi Wayne, Thanks for had time to testing it. > although I'm not 100% sure what it buys us For an occasional 3D-Viewer user that was using the stable version of KiCad and will use this version, if the user is "distracted", he/she shouldn't notice any changes at first. Everything in general should

Re: [Kicad-developers] PATCH: change 3D cache location

2016-06-20 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Cirilo, I just attempted to compile this patch and it fails to build on windows. Please take a look at it when you get a chance. Here is the output: C:/src/kicad/product/3d-viewer/3d_cache/3d_plugin_manager.cpp:154:6: error: invalid preprocessing directive #ifnef #ifnef _WIN32 ^ C:/s

Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D-Viewer - Request for merge evaluation

2016-06-20 Thread Nick Østergaard
2016-06-20 14:45 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh : > I had some time over the weekend to look at this and I'm satisfied with > it although I'm not 100% sure what it buys us. The eye candy is nice. > The performance not so much but such is the case with povray. My > biggest gripe is that the povray rend

Re: [Kicad-developers] 3D-Viewer - Request for merge evaluation

2016-06-20 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
I had some time over the weekend to look at this and I'm satisfied with it although I'm not 100% sure what it buys us. The eye candy is nice. The performance not so much but such is the case with povray. My biggest gripe is that the povray rendering button on the toolbar doesn't give any feedback

Re: [Kicad-developers] What's still missing in GAL?

2016-06-20 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 6/16/2016 5:17 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 09:50:21PM +0200, easyw wrote: >>> I mean features we _need_ in GAL >> sorry, I cannot imagine what _you_ consider a need... >> I just noticed that and other people did the same at the forum... > > That's why I asked for an "offi