Re: [Kicad-developers] DRC ladybug symbol origin

2020-07-17 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
Do an image google search for "debug icon ladybug" and you'll see quite many debugging related ladybugs. I think it has been used as a symbol because it's easily recognizable and cute. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(engineering). On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 6:16 AM Brian Piccioni wrote: > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] DRC ladybug symbol origin

2020-07-17 Thread Mark Roszko
You would think we want a spider to kill bugs :D On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 11:16 PM Brian Piccioni wrote: > I'm guessing because it finds bugs? > On 2020-07-16 11:14 p.m., Ben Ellis wrote: > > Hi all, > > Does anyone know why the DRC symbol is a ladybug? Asking for a friend > > Best, > Ben > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] DRC ladybug symbol origin

2020-07-17 Thread Kliment (Future Bits)
Actually ladybugs are murderous predators that kill lots and lots of bugs - a single ladybug can murder thousands of aphids in a day. Spiders are very inefficient by comparison. But that's going offtopic in an already offtopic discussion. Kliment On 17.07.20 13:18, Mark Roszko wrote: > You would

[Kicad-developers] DRC - detecting acute angles

2020-07-17 Thread Joshua Redstone
Hi all, I was wondering what's the state of the pcbnew DRC work and what are the todos left to be done? I have a bit of time while waiting for a board to be assembled. I was thinking of exploring DRC changes to either detect acute angles in copper or detect silkscreen text that intersects vias /

Re: [Kicad-developers] DRC - detecting acute angles

2020-07-17 Thread Seth Hillbrand
Please have a look over the open issues on GitLab. Until the new DRC code has been merged into master, it's not a good candidate for a new developer. Here's a link with open issues for the feature-freeze that have not yet been assigned. Please do note that any feature-development work should