Re: [Kicad-developers] Segvia and zone filling.

2012-04-20 Thread Dan Chianucci
Jean, I thought about this, and I agree with your first point. This patch has shortcomings in the fact that things like wire stubs and unwanted lone tracks will also have there net-codes updated and in turn might not be caught by drc. I'll look into connecting the vias directly to a zone instead.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Segvia and zone filling.

2012-04-19 Thread Dan Chianucci
On Apr 19, 2012 5:27 PM, "Dick Hollenbeck" wrote: > > On 04/19/2012 05:22 AM, Solonen Vesa wrote: > >> I am trying to add this functionality, however I am unsure how to go about it. > > For zone stitching it may make sense to use our current zone filling logic for the purpose. If you look carefull

Re: [Kicad-developers] Segvia and zone filling.

2012-04-18 Thread Dan Chianucci
Ok, I modified the way pcbnew updates the tracks' net codes slightly. Anyway, attached is a patch which will update floating vias/tracks as well as tracks which are connected to pads. -Dan C On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: > On 04/13/2012 08:31 PM, Dan Chianuc

[Kicad-developers] Trouble with cmake

2012-04-15 Thread Dan Chianucci
I'm trying to create the makefiles for kicad, but whenever I run the cmake command it gives me an error: Dan@DanC_Laptop /c/users/dan/workspaces/kicadr/src/kicad_testing/build/Debug $ cmake -G "Eclipse CDT4 - MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DKICAD_TESTING_VERSION=ON -DwxWidgets_ROOT_DI

[Kicad-developers] Segvia and zone filling.

2012-04-13 Thread Dan Chianucci
I have a board that has a GND zone on the top and on the bottom. Normally, I would connect the two zones in various places around the board with vias. However, PCBNew does not support this functionality. For one, a lone via cannot be placed onto the board if it is not connected to a pad somehow. A

Re: [Kicad-developers] New Pcbnew file format.

2012-04-12 Thread Dan Chianucci
> class EDGE_MODULE is derived from DRAWSEGMENT and comes in types > S_SEGMENT, S_CIRCLE, S_ARC, S_POLYGON. > > So it is basically a graphical line, circle, arc, or polygon. > > Basically a "graphic", so that word is one candidate.  It is not confined to > the module's > edge, but is often used to

Re: [Kicad-developers] New Pcbnew file format.

2012-04-11 Thread Dan Chianucci
This new format looks great, I have a few comments/questions 1) in some spots like module pads there is (net ) and in other spots like track segments it only has (net ). 2)What do the edge tags represent in the Module 3)Draw arc has tags start and end. I'm not sure if this has cha

Re: [Kicad-developers] A few strategy suggestions for the project

2012-04-01 Thread Dan Chianucci
I'm new here, but I've been following for quite a while. I think that what Dick said is a good idea on the whole. A few suggestions for fundraising would be: 1) Kick-start: I don't know what the incentives for donating to the project would be... perhaps a greater say in what gets developed next