Re: [Kicad-developers] 6.0 Zone filling differences

2019-06-20 Thread Reece Pollack
Memory is the second thing to go as one ages. I can't remember what the first one is. From: "Jeff Young" To: "jp charras" Cc: "KiCad Developers" Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 2:46:58 PM Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] 6.0 Zone filling differences Wow. That’s sobering. I wrote the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Ratsnest options

2019-06-13 Thread Reece Pollack
For myself, I see no value to having the Ratsnest on/off in the View menu or in Preferences. Having it in the left toolbar as well as the Layers widget is duplicative but convenient. What would seriously reduce my use of the Ratsnest show/hide function is the ability to limit what nets appear

Re: [Kicad-developers] Patch set: Display Origin Transforms rebase

2019-05-26 Thread Reece Pollack
- On May 26, 2019, at 10:53 AM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: > Hi Reece- > Apologies for the double-tap here. I see I miss-read your intention in > a couple of places! Sorry about that. I'll try to clean up my comments > below. > I also noticed a few other bits and knobs that would be good to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Patch set: Display Origin Transforms rebase

2019-05-26 Thread Reece Pollack
> Hi Reece- > I've had a chance to test this a bit. It works really nicely. Thanks > for the good idea here. Thanks! Just a classic case of "This annoys me so much that I'm going to fix it". > I only noticed one spot where it wasn't transformed so far: the > Measurement tool. When used, it

Re: [Kicad-developers] Patch set: Display Origin Transforms

2019-05-22 Thread Reece Pollack
Wayne, Thanks for the feedback. Re the header guards: It's common in my experience to define include/exclude type symbols with a non-zero numeric value. This avoids problems when someone writes "#if SYMBOL" rather than the intended "#ifdef SYMBOL", as a preprocessor symbol with no value

[Kicad-developers] A consistent name for the Aux Origin?

2019-05-17 Thread Reece Pollack
I just posted this in the KiCad "Software" forum for comment, but ultimately this is a dev question. In Pcbnew, you can place what is known internally as the “Aux Origin”. Thus far the only use for this has been to set the origin for generating Gerber files. The user interface doesn’t

Re: [Kicad-developers] ERC / DRC user survey

2019-05-02 Thread Reece Pollack
My biggest gripe is the inability to import a DRC configuration from a PCB fab company. Many fabs provide Eagle DRC files customized to their various offerings. With KiCad I either have to customize each project or create template files before I start a project. If I want to run a DRC using