Re: [Kicad-developers] Changing units of Gerber plots

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio < l.marcanto...@cz-dynamic.it> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 09:55:48AM -0700, Andy Peters wrote: > > > Let’s be honest. They’re using cracked versions of Cam350. > > A board fabricator *can* afford at least Cam350. The good ones use >

Re: [Kicad-developers] cvpcb alternative

Yo. On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Jacob Schmidt wrote: > > is remarkably unintuitive; making a footprint is EASY, saving it is >>> HARD. >>> >> Where is the unintuitive part? Select library, save footprint; end of >> the story. Slightly more complex if you use the master

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use specific gerber extensions for inner Cu layers and the Edge_Cuts layer in preference to the default .gbr .

Hi Marco, On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Marco Hess marco.h...@through-ip.com wrote: While this patch adds the inner copper layers and the board outline on the Protel/Altium Mechanical Layer 1, there are still a few layers 'unassigned' and still use the default '.grb' extensions. Among

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use specific gerber extensions for inner Cu layers and the Edge_Cuts layer in preference to the default .gbr .

Hi Marco, On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Marco Hess marco.h...@through-ip.com wrote: On this item, I noted that in dialog_plot_base.cpp the checkbox for using these extensions are referred to as 'Protel'. Should we change that to 'Altium' to stay with the times? I think the name Protel is

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use specific gerber extensions for inner Cu layers and the Edge_Cuts layer in preference to the default .gbr .

Hi folks, On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@gmail.com wrote: Your patch was committed in the product branch r5818. Thank you for your contribution to KiCad. Big +1 for this patch. When a customer sends me a zip, I run a script which heuristically tries to work out

Re: [Kicad-developers] progress with IGES

Hi Cirilo, On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Cirilo Bernardo cirilo.berna...@gmail.com wrote: as a test I created a 1x1x1mm cube I'll take that with a grain of salt. Mitch. PS: Nice work! ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers

[Kicad-developers] Option to not download boost every time?

Hello folks, I'm trying to compile KiCad for Fedora. Previously I was using Fedora's copy of Boost, but now I'd like to try the KiCad one. Part of the build seems to be a download of boost, plus futzing around with bzr to create a local bzr repo for Boost. On my throttled internet connection,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Option to not download boost every time?

Hi, On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Mitch Davis mjd+launchpad@afork.com wrote: Is there some way I can mod the cmake files so boost source fetching can be satisfied by the untarring of a pre-prepared copy of Boost? A tar file plus a bunch of patches would also be fine. Mitch

Re: [Kicad-developers] Possible 4.6 gerber issue?

Hi folks, On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Mark Roszko mark.ros...@gmail.com wrote: I just tested Nick's simple 1 circle test board he attached earlier. It has the same bug. Just talked with the factory about the Saturn bug. Earlier I said that I thought the problem showed up in G2K but not

Re: [Kicad-developers] Possible 4.6 gerber issue?

Hi guys, On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Nick Østergaard oe.n...@gmail.com wrote: I have attached a minimal board that I think should show the bug. Mitch, can you please try to send that though your fabs viewer? I will. Is it possible to supply one that we think does and does not have the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Possible 4.6 gerber issue?

Hi JP, (I'm Mr. Hackvana) On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:14 PM, jp charras jp.char...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Le 15/10/2014 18:23, Jon Neal a écrit : The gerbers were generated with KiCad BZR 5101, gerber format 4.6, mm for the units, and absolute positioning. Another person that used the same pcb

Re: [Kicad-developers] Possible 4.6 gerber issue?

Hi, On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Mark Roszko mark.ros...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting, I found an online viewer that for some reason also cannot handle the circles in the gerber. Yes I found the same. Screenshot from Genesis2000: http://i.imgur.com/Ftycbz8.png Screenshot from mayhewlabs:

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Rename instances of module to footprint for consistency

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Mark Roszko mark.ros...@gmail.com wrote: Hehe, well, I guess everything can be renamed in the opposite direction. But consistency is needed. YES PLEASE! A number of people I've spoken to were really confused by this inconsistency. I use footprint myself.

[Kicad-developers] Need help finding a git mirror for kicad/doc

Hello folks, I'm trying to get some RPMs of a recent KiCad built for Fedora 20. The existing stuff for building KiCad under Fedora is here: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/kicad/ http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/kicad.git/tree/ The building of RPMs is done by a .spec file. The

Re: [Kicad-developers] Need help finding a git mirror for kicad/doc

Hi, On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Blair Bonnett blair.bonn...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 October 2014 14:33, Mitch Davis mjd+launchpad@afork.com wrote: Is there a git mirror for lp:~kicad-developers/kicad/doc? There is now: https://github.com/blairbonnett-mirrors/kicad-doc Thanks very

Re: [Kicad-developers] new person onboarding

Hi Carl, On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Carl Poirier carl.poirie...@gmail.com wrote: One area you can easily give a hand is in the libraries. We have devised a set of rules a few months ago which form our Library Convention. Can you please tell me where the rules are? Thanks, Mitch.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Push and shove router

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Edwin van den Oetelaar oetelaar.automatiser...@gmail.com wrote: I watched the video. My jaw is still on the floor. If anything, the first video is even more impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzro0Jc70xI Tomasz, you're amazing! Thank you! Mitch.

Re: [Kicad-developers] big commit

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 2:40 AM, jean-pierre charras jp.char...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Is ctl-space a possible and better key? Under Linux, ctrl-Space is sometimes used to select input methods. For me, it lets me switch between English and Chinese. I hope ctrl-Space doesn't get used. Mitch.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Was: page selection dialog, everybody please comment

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:17 PM, jp charras jp.char...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Another think... what does the ki in kicad stand for??? No special meaning. after a small brain storming, a friend of mine suggest me kicad. Now all I need to know is how to say it! KeeCad or KeyeCad? Mitch.

Re: [Kicad-developers] New VRML component models

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Edwin van den Oetelaar oetelaar.automatiser...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your effort in the project. I checked your code on sourceforge and it looks nice. I do have a question however, why did you use C++ and not a scripting language for this? In my

Re: [Kicad-developers] About today bzr update

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@verizon.net wrote: I highly doubt you'll like Unity and GNOME 3 only tolerable with the optional extensions installed. I tried to like GNOME 3. I really tried. Used it for six weeks. Hated every minute of it. Everything just got