Re: [Kicad-developers] High speed tools

2020-09-22 Thread Kliment (Future Bits)
Having just routed a board with 56 diffpairs I have an idea about number 4: I think we should treat diffpairs as single traces when routing and when using the pns functionality to move them around. The trace should have the thickness of 2x dpair trace width + 1x dpair trace gap, and have a

Re: [Kicad-developers] High speed tools

2020-09-22 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
My 5 quick cents: > 1) tool to visualize nets lengths (similar to > https://github.com/MitjaNemec/Kicad_action_plugins#length-stats ). I > want to make a gui where you can define what nets you want to see > altogether. And it should show you length on each layer and summary. >

Re: [Kicad-developers] High speed tools

2020-09-22 Thread Oleg Endo
Hi, On Tue, 2020-09-22 at 12:27 -0400, Jon Evans wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > For (1) I know Oleg Endo has been doing some work on the Net Inspector to > allow grouping nets for combined length measurement: > https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/187 Yeah, I think it could be

Re: [Kicad-developers] High speed tools

2020-09-22 Thread Jon Evans
Hi Alexander, For (1) I know Oleg Endo has been doing some work on the Net Inspector to allow grouping nets for combined length measurement: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/187 For (3) the intent was to do this via the new DRC rule system. The PNS router needs to be updated

[Kicad-developers] High speed tools

2020-09-22 Thread Alexander Shuklin
Dear all, I want to start my first KiCad high speed design and for that purpose I plan to make some pcbnew python scripts. I just want to ask if some of that tools are expected in the nightly builds (may be I will wait for it or even give a hand or contribute) 1) tool to visualize nets lengths