Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

I kind of enjoy the French names. It keeps me on my toes! Besides, AFAIK it's the last of the French strings in KiCad. When I joined the project most of the source code comments were in French. I'm the one who translated them all to English so I could work on the project. I actually thought

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

Yes Wayne, thanks. JP, it's all your fault, demos shouldn't have proprietary Frenchy layer names. :D I think the demos should have proper layer names, I forgot the layer names could be changed because I almost never go to Layer Setup. It would be confusing for beginners when looking at demo

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

Copper layers can be renamed so I only expect the layer names F.Cu and B.Cu when I have not renamed them. I'm guessing you have one of the kicad demo projects open based on the French layer names which JP likes to use. On 2/25/2018 8:59 PM, Andrey Kuznetsov wrote: > Not sure if this is the right

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

Not sure if this is the right thread that dealt with Layers tab, but anyone else thinks the first 2 names should say: F.Copper B.Copper instead of: [image: Inline image 1] On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Andrzej Wolski wrote: > There is a simple fix to this problem,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

There is a simple fix to this problem, patch in attachment. It needs to be applied on top of this patch: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1743890 Witch this patch there is another issue: when all layers (in Layer tab) are hidden, anchors and invisible text are still displayed. I'm not

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

On 2018-02-08 07:02 AM, kristoffer Ödmark wrote: for example, disbling rendering of front footprints disables all the F.Silk, F.Fab, adhesive and many more. Disabling the rendering of Text on the front only disables text belonging to a footprint, no other. Basically the Render tab does not do

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

I think it has been mentioned before about potentially creating user defined visibility settings that could be added to the layer manager context menu. I'm guessing that we would have to rework some of the underlying code to make this possible. It's definitely something to keep in mind for

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

As you noticed, one can only define simple layer visibility dependencies in GAL using SetRequired() method. Effectively, you can quickly disable a whole layer when another is invisible, but it does not handle well cases of e.g. texts whose visibility should depend both on the layer and the parent

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

I started investigating this some more, there is much more rendering problems here. for example, disbling rendering of front footprints disables all the F.Silk, F.Fab, adhesive and many more. Disabling the rendering of Text on the front only disables text belonging to a footprint, no other.

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

On 2018-02-07 04:25 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: If you use legacy renderer then turn off Pads Front and Pads Back under the Render tab on the right the pads disappear. If you are in GAL mode they remain visible. Given that the legacy canvas will hopefully be removed in the v6 development

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

On 2/7/2018 4:24 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote: > On 2018-02-07 04:04 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> I agree with you on this.  I don't know why the layer setting is ignored >> and the pads are shown anyway but it's always been this way.  I would >> rather the logic be to respect the layer setting. > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

On 2018-02-07 04:04 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: I agree with you on this. I don't know why the layer setting is ignored and the pads are shown anyway but it's always been this way. I would rather the logic be to respect the layer setting. If you use legacy renderer then turn off Pads Front

[Kicad-developers] Pads front and F.Cu visibility, possible bugs?

Hey! Another confusion arised when I was speaking to a friend. When disabling the F.Cu layer, the pads are still visible. I can understand the need to be able to disable the pads on the front layer separate from everything else, to check for things under pads etc. What I cannot understand