[Kicad-developers] [feature] Simpler edition of custom pads

2017-10-19 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
Dear all, I've just pushed a set of patches that simplifies drawing and editing custom pad shapes: - Now you can draw a number of graphic primitives in the footprint editor, select them together and R-click->Create Pad From Selected Shapes) to convert them to a custom-shaped pad. - ... and the o

Re: [Kicad-developers] [feature] Simpler edition of custom pads

2017-10-19 Thread Oliver Walters
> > I forgot to mention, it's now possible to draw graphical polygons (not > zones) both in pcbnew and in the footprint editor. But Christmas isn't for another two months!! On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski < tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch> wrote: > Dear all, > > I've just pushed a

Re: [Kicad-developers] [feature] Simpler edition of custom pads

2017-10-20 Thread Kristoffer Ödmark
Really cool! Although, I am a bit worried by allowing potential errors in the DRC and only mentioning that change in this mail. I know users who use the nightlies and do not read the dev-mail. Even if it only is for a few days, maybe have an annoying pop-up that warns that adding this may brea

Re: [Kicad-developers] [feature] Simpler edition of custom pads

2017-10-20 Thread Seth Hillbrand
Very nice! I have one minor kibble with the use of boost::optional as it throws compile warnings. I'm attaching a proposed patch that silences the warning by initializing the optional to boost::none. -S On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski < tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch> wrote: > De

Re: [Kicad-developers] [feature] Simpler edition of custom pads

2017-10-21 Thread jp charras
Le 20/10/2017 à 19:08, Seth Hillbrand a écrit : > Very nice! > > I have one minor kibble with the use of boost::optional as it throws compile > warnings.  I'm > attaching a proposed patch that silences the warning by initializing the > optional to boost::none. > > -S I committed your patch. Th