Re: [Kicad-developers] Proposed Geographic PCB Re-Annotation for Kicad 6

2018-05-10 Thread Brian Piccioni
repare some screen grabs if I haven’t made it clear. Thanks Brian From: Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie> Sent: May 10, 2018 1:54 PM To: Brian Piccioni <br...@documenteddesigns.com> Cc: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Proposed Geographic

Re: [Kicad-developers] Proposed Geographic PCB Re-Annotation for Kicad 6

2018-05-11 Thread Brian Piccioni
bau...@gmail.com> Sent: May 10, 2018 6:59 PM To: Brian Piccioni <br...@documenteddesigns.com>; KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Proposed Geographic PCB Re-Annotation for Kicad 6 Brian, Make sure you do a reply all

Re: [Kicad-developers] Proposed Geographic PCB Re-Annotation for Kicad 6

2018-05-11 Thread Brian Piccioni
. -Original Message- From: Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> Sent: May 10, 2018 6:59 PM To: Brian Piccioni <br...@documenteddesigns.com>; KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Proposed Geographic PCB Re-Annotation for Kica

Re: [Kicad-developers] FreeRouting

2018-05-23 Thread Brian Piccioni
For what it is worth, and despite knowing it is politically incorrect to admit to using an autorouter, I have used Freeroute in the past and would like to continue using it in the future. As much fun as manual routing is (I treat it like a video game) sometimes you just want a board quickly.

[Kicad-developers] Feature request : Allow hide of Fab text reference designation

2018-05-02 Thread Brian Piccioni
Sorry if this is not the correct venue for this request, of it has already been addressed. The issue: 1. Reference designation is presented in the silkscreen and duplicated in many library parts as a FAB layer text. 2. Silkscreen text is usually manually adjusted to make it

[Kicad-developers] Proposed Geographic PCB Re-Annotation for Kicad 6

2018-05-02 Thread Brian Piccioni
ably take me much longer than a skilled programmer to do this. Therefore, it would be helpful if there was a mentor I could turn to for some guidance, if the developers accept that this is a good idea. I would appreciate any feedback. If you think this would not be a good thing to pu

[Kicad-developers] Bad link to doxygen on Kicad.org

2019-01-01 Thread Brian Piccioni
FYI on http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/doxygen/md_Documentation_development_compiling.htm l the link to Doxygen http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ appears to be broken. The correct address appears to be http://www.doxygen.nl/ ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Kicad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions

2019-01-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
consistent with Kicad than trying to learn everything and trying to solve the problem! From: Andrew Lutsenko Sent: January 4, 2019 5:44 PM To: Brian Piccioni Cc: Seth Hillbrand ; KiCad Developers Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions Hi Brian

Re: [Kicad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions

2019-01-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
al Message- From: Tomasz Wlostowski Sent: January 4, 2019 6:19 PM To: Brian Piccioni ; 'KiCad Developers' Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions On 04/01/2019 18:51, Brian Piccioni wrote: > I am still keen to attempt to incorporate geographic

Re: [Kicad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions

2019-01-05 Thread Brian Piccioni
: Re: [Kicad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions On 1/4/19 6:18 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: > On 04/01/2019 18:51, Brian Piccioni wrote: >> I am still keen to attempt to incorporate geographical component annotation >> into KiCad. In general, it is preferabl

Re: [Kicad-developers] $comp file format question

2019-01-14 Thread Brian Piccioni
question Le 14/01/2019 à 14:56, Brian Piccioni a écrit : > JP > Thanks for the explanation. > > Is the AR field documented anywhere? Are there any other undocumented > .sch fields? Not I am aware of. > > It would seem to me that the extraneous/obsolete AR fields shou

Re: [Kicad-developers] [KiCad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions

2019-01-08 Thread Brian Piccioni
tomorrow. If there are other non-critical sub-projects I could work on in order to learn, I'd be keen to have the opportunity. Regards Brian -Original Message- From: Seth Hillbrand Sent: January 8, 2019 12:43 PM To: Wayne Stambaugh Cc: Brian Piccioni ; kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Kicad-developers] [KiCad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions

2019-01-08 Thread Brian Piccioni
hat was 25 years ago when I shifted to capital markets. I have kept up electronics as a hobby, but I am now semi-retired and I have a lot of catching up to do. Thanks, Brian -Original Message- From: Seth Hillbrand Sent: January 8, 2019 6:25 PM To: Brian Piccioni Cc: 'Wayne Stambaug

Re: [Kicad-developers] [KiCad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions

2019-01-07 Thread Brian Piccioni
18 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: > On 04/01/2019 18:51, Brian Piccioni wrote: >> I am still keen to attempt to incorporate geographical component annotation >> into KiCad. In general, it is preferable for component annotation to be done >> relative to the PCB and in som

Re: [Kicad-developers] [KiCad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions

2019-01-07 Thread Brian Piccioni
or abandon the effort in shame. Regards Brian -Original Message- From: Wayne Stambaugh Sent: January 7, 2019 12:30 PM To: Brian Piccioni ; kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [KiCad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions On 1/7/2019 9:49 AM, Brian Picc

Re: [Kicad-developers] [KiCad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions

2019-01-08 Thread Brian Piccioni
nt than I really am. Regards, Brian -Original Message- From: Seth Hillbrand Sent: January 7, 2019 11:18 PM To: Brian Piccioni Cc: 'Wayne Stambaugh' ; kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] [KiCad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some que

Re: [Kicad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions

2019-01-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
- From: Seth Hillbrand Sent: January 4, 2019 1:19 PM To: Brian Piccioni Cc: 'KiCad Developers' Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions Am 2019-01-04 12:51, schrieb Brian Piccioni: > I am still keen to attempt to incorporate geographical compon

[Kicad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions

2019-01-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
I am still keen to attempt to incorporate geographical component annotation into KiCad. In general, it is preferable for component annotation to be done relative to the PCB and in some logical order (left/right, top to bottom, etc). Thereafter this information is imported to the schematic. I

[Kicad-developers] $comp file format question

2019-01-13 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I am looking at damaged schematic file someone sent me. It has fields like this $comp L Device:LED_ALT D? . . AR Path="/5C0355BF/5C061BDB" Ref="D?" Part="1" AR Path="/5C048F20/5C061BDB" Ref="D103" Part="1" I suspect the problem is that a hierarchical sheet was deleted

Re: [Kicad-developers] [KiCad-developers] [KiCad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions

2019-01-09 Thread Brian Piccioni
regards Brian -Original Message- From: Seth Hillbrand Sent: January 9, 2019 9:22 AM To: Brian Piccioni Subject: Re: [KiCad-developers] [KiCad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions Am 2019-01-09 09:11, schrieb Brian Piccioni: > Great, thanks. That's what confused

Re: [Kicad-developers] Problems building current source under Msys2

2019-01-09 Thread Brian Piccioni
: Re: [Kicad-developers] Problems building current source under Msys2 Brian, This is a known issue when compiling with gcc. That is why code has been added to the cmake file to check for this error. Downgrading to 0.9.9.2 on msys2 is the correct solution. Cheers, Wayne On 1/9/2019 9:44 AM, Brian

[Kicad-developers] Problems building current source under Msys2

2019-01-09 Thread Brian Piccioni
Last night I cloned the master repository in order to participate in bug-hunting. When I invoked the suggested make commands I get the following error CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:591 (MESSAGE): GLM version 0.9.9.3 is incompatible with KiCad. Please downgrade to GLM version

Re: [Kicad-developers] [KiCad-developers] [KiCad-developers] Hoping to contribute but I have some questions

2019-01-09 Thread Brian Piccioni
questions You should also add IgnorePkg = mingw-w64-i686-glm mingw-w64-x86_64-glm to your /etc/pacman.conf file to prevent 0.9.9.3 form being installed the next time you update. On 1/9/2019 9:57 AM, Brian Piccioni wrote: > Ah. Thanks. In the interim I seemed to have fixed the problem. > >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Problems building current source under Msys2

2019-01-09 Thread Brian Piccioni
I am sure for highly experienced developers that is the case. However, your build directions say to install/update a package and that package causes the make to fail. From: Nick Østergaard Sent: January 9, 2019 12:17 PM To: Brian Piccioni Cc: Wayne Stambaugh ; KiCad Developers

Re: [Kicad-developers] $comp file format question

2019-01-14 Thread Brian Piccioni
Message- From: Kicad-developers On Behalf Of jp charras Sent: January 14, 2019 2:58 AM To: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] $comp file format question Le 13/01/2019 à 17:50, Brian Piccioni a écrit : > Hello > I am looking at damaged schematic file s

Re: [Kicad-developers] Processing older versions (topic split from v6 Upgrade)

2019-03-01 Thread Brian Piccioni
For what it is worth I believe " the forced upgrade path that all the commercial vendors use" is a commercial decision to force new license sales and/or give value to maintenance contracts. This has a negative impact on users with older versions who are forced to upgrade, which costs them money.

Re: [Kicad-developers] [eeschema/question] use mouse position instead of custom position for selecting objects?

2019-03-22 Thread Brian Piccioni
for selecting objects? Brian On 3/22/2019 12:32 PM, Brian Piccioni wrote: > From a position of (mostly) ignorance, isn't the real question > > "how can things be off-grid in a system where all the coordinates are > expressed in whole numbers"? > > I looked at the test f

Re: [Kicad-developers] Version 6 development planning

2019-02-12 Thread Brian Piccioni
For what it is worth, I would love to have the ability to change the "thickness" of ratsnest wires. I find them almost invisible when there are fewer of them, when they are short, or when the board is mostly routed whatever color combination I choose. Probably an old guy thing, I know, but I

Re: [Kicad-developers] Version 6 development planning

2019-02-13 Thread Brian Piccioni
be red and extra thick (corresponding to the netclass specification for a power buss, for example). Of course, perhaps that is what you meant but I thought I'd put it out there. Brian -Original Message- From: Wayne Stambaugh Sent: February 13, 2019 8:33 AM To: Brian Piccioni Subject

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeSchema V6 - any thoughts as to tabbed schematics?

2019-05-03 Thread Brian Piccioni
when invoking a save command. Of course, this is no doubt simplistic given my lack of expertise in the matter. Brian From: Jon Evans Sent: May 3, 2019 10:52 AM To: Brian Piccioni Cc: Kevin Cozens ; kicad-developers Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] eeSchema V6 - any thoughts

[Kicad-developers] eeSchema V6 - any thoughts as to tabbed schematics?

2019-05-03 Thread Brian Piccioni
out I'd like to test it, but I don't know where the download is. I am on Windows and I can build from source. Brian Piccioni ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeSchema V6 - any thoughts as to tabbed schematics?

2019-05-03 Thread Brian Piccioni
: Re: [Kicad-developers] eeSchema V6 - any thoughts as to tabbed schematics? On Fri, 3 May 2019 at 14:06, Brian Piccioni wrote: > Currently you have to open another instance of eeSchema or click > through to sheets in order to see other sheets. Tabs would be more > convenient than

Re: [Kicad-developers] Doxygen docs stylesheet seems broken

2019-04-23 Thread Brian Piccioni
Foobared on Chrome Windows for me the past few days I've notices. -Original Message- From: Kicad-developers On Behalf Of Wayne Stambaugh Sent: April 23, 2019 1:59 PM To: Jon Evans Cc: KiCad Developers Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Doxygen docs stylesheet seems broken I'm using

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH 0/9] MSVC build support

2019-07-02 Thread Brian Piccioni
Since I have been using MSVC for RenumKiCadPCB development for several months now I am keen to try the MSVC build so I can work on integrating the function. When I click this linkhttps://git.launchpad.net/~sjr/kicad/msvc-new . I get Invalid request I assume there is an MSVC KiCad

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH 0/9] MSVC build support

2019-07-02 Thread Brian Piccioni
Thanks! I'll give it a try. -Original Message- From: Simon Richter Sent: July 2, 2019 10:22 AM To: Brian Piccioni Cc: 'KiCad Developers' Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH 0/9] MSVC build support Hi, On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 09:18:23AM -0400, Brian Piccioni wrote: > Whe

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-06 Thread Brian Piccioni
. Since there seems to be numerous files associated with such a change I found it rather daunting. If anybody wants to help they are welcome to reach out to me directly. Brian From: Ian McInerney Sent: November 6, 2019 9:08 AM To: KiCad Developers; jasura...@gmail.com Cc: Brian Piccioni Subject

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-06 Thread Brian Piccioni
To: Brian Piccioni; Wayne Stambaugh; Simon Richter Cc: ian.s.mciner...@ieee.org; KiCad Developers Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB Hi, thanks for answers! Brian, I will definitely like to give a hand. But before start everything I need to study things guys talking

[Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows)

2019-11-17 Thread Brian Piccioni
In case anybody is interested I managed to use the QT-Creator IDE to build Kicad on Windows. I documented the procedure here https://wordpress.com/post/documenteddesigns.com/483. But for posterity (and to make it easier to find) I’ve included it below. Note that this only seems to work with the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows)

2019-11-18 Thread Brian Piccioni
Mario Sure! https://documenteddesigns.com/2019/11/17/building-kicad-with-qt-creator-on-windows-msys2/ BTW I will probably revise because I forgot a few easy details and want it to be complete. Brian From: Mário LuzeiroSent: November 18, 2019 8:10 AMTo: Brian Piccioni; kicad-developers

Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows)

2019-11-18 Thread Brian Piccioni
I would very much appreciate that and I think the community would as well!  From: Dmitry RezvanovSent: November 18, 2019 8:22 AMTo: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.netSubject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows) BTW, I'm programming and debugging

Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows)

2019-11-18 Thread Brian Piccioni
I would very much appreciate that and I think many devs would as well. Some of us are not as experienced as others ... From: Dmitry RezvanovSent: November 18, 2019 8:22 AMTo: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.netSubject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2

Re: [Kicad-developers] Symbol library code changes

2019-11-12 Thread Brian Piccioni
to try that before. From: Wayne Stambaugh Sent: November 12, 2019 9:05 AM To: Brian Piccioni; kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Symbol library code changes On 11/9/19 7:04 PM, Brian Piccioni wrote: > Sorry the link to the symbol library format doesn’t s

Re: [Kicad-developers] Symbol library code changes

2019-11-09 Thread Brian Piccioni
Sorry the link to the symbol library format doesn’t seem to work. Can you supply a link which works and maybe a link to the PCB file format? I’ve been dying to know ... From: Wayne Stambaugh Sent: November 9, 2019 3:42 PM To: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers]

Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows)

2019-11-18 Thread Brian Piccioni
Thanks – I’ll have a look! From: Nick ØstergaardSent: November 18, 2019 2:29 PMTo: Dmitry RezvanovCc: KiCad DevelopersSubject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Recipe for building Kicad on QT-Creator on Msys2 (Windows) FWIW there are some tips on using eclipse

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-22 Thread Brian Piccioni
l want to take a close look at KIWAY::ExpressMail() and KIWAY_PLAYER::KiwayMailIn()>>>>>>> Ok, I'll look at that. I think I've seen that in footprints back annotation.>>>>>>>> This is unfortunate.  Being able to work directly with on of the lead developers wou

Re: [Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2

2019-11-22 Thread Brian Piccioni
@lists.launchpad.netSubject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2 Hi, On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 09:30:48PM -0500, Brian Piccioni wrote: > Download the Kicad source files from https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror> Untar or unzip into /home/kicad-source-mirror-master This probably

Re: [Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2

2019-11-22 Thread Brian Piccioni
cmakelists.txt or any other Kicad source file those edits will be lost.   From: Simon RichterSent: November 22, 2019 6:46 AMTo: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.netSubject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2 Hi, On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 09:30:48PM -0500, Brian Piccioni

Re: [Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2

2019-11-23 Thread Brian Piccioni
Eeli and Carsten Thanks for the additional info.  The reason I was working of the git information was in response to Simon earlier in this thread who suggested it. If git was the way to go I wanted to include it because people like me find that there is typically plenty of instructions regarding

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-23 Thread Brian Piccioni
Indeed. I’ve had geographical annotation in c++ working for some time now. Having different commands in PCBNew and eeSchema could lead to all sorts of nightmares. During testing I found myself with “half done” projects where I had inadvertently got the annotation on the PCB and schematics out of

[Kicad-developers] Building Kicad on Windows 10/Eclipse/Msys2

2019-11-21 Thread Brian Piccioni
Based on feedback received after I published a recipe for building Kicad with QT Creator, I managed to figure out how to build it on Windows 10 with Eclipse on Msys2.  I have posted that recipe here documenteddesigns.com/2019/11/22/building-kicad-on-windows-10-with-eclipse-msys2/ but, for

Re: [Kicad-developers] Issues building PCBNew on Windows 10/Msys:fatal exception

2019-10-20 Thread Brian Piccioni
recommend that you debug using 64 bit builds. Debug builds on msys2 are massive and you will likely run into memory limit issues. I hope this helps. Cheers, Wayne On 10/19/19 5:36 PM, Brian Piccioni wrote: > Sorry if this is a bit long and thanks in advance for the help. I > decided to move to

Re: [Kicad-developers] Issues building PCBNew on Windows 10/Msys:fatal exception

2019-10-21 Thread Brian Piccioni
u debug using 64 bit builds. Debug builds on msys2 are massive and you will likely run into memory limit issues. I hope this helps. Cheers, Wayne On 10/19/19 5:36 PM, Brian Piccioni wrote: > Sorry if this is a bit long and thanks in advance for the help. I > decided to move to a new laptop

Re: [Kicad-developers] Issues building PCBNew on Windows10/Msys:fatal exception

2019-10-21 Thread Brian Piccioni
, Brian Piccioni wrote: > I'm updating this email in case somebody else has a similar problem. > >   > > I reinstalled Msys2 64 bit and rebuilt a 64 bit debug version of Kicad. > It appear to run fine, except when I run PCBNew from a mingw64 terminal > I get > >   &

Re: [Kicad-developers] Benchmarking kicad compilation on CPUsreleased 6 years apart

2019-10-29 Thread Brian Piccioni
Tomasz Do you use Visual Studio to compile Kicad? If so, how? I’m not very good with things like cmake and I’ve tried and tried to get KiCad (or even just PCBNew) to compile with Visual Studio and end up with various problems I can’t solve like missing packages, etc.. Besides the debugger,

Re: [Kicad-developers] Benchmarking kicad compilation on CPUsreleased6 years apart

2019-10-29 Thread Brian Piccioni
it with Kicad so I can contribute. Brian From: Nick Østergaard Sent: October 29, 2019 7:19 PM To: Brian Piccioni Cc: Tomasz Wlostowski; Simon Richter; kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Benchmarking kicad compilation on CPUsreleased6 years apart Hello Brian You would

[Kicad-developers] Issues building PCBNew on Windows 10/Msys: fatal exception

2019-10-19 Thread Brian Piccioni
Sorry if this is a bit long and thanks in advance for the help. I decided to move to a new laptop and create a debug version of Kicad so I can work on integrating my software. I believe I carefully followed the build instructions I suspect this may be related to a version mismatch but I don’t

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fixes for Visual Studio / vcpkg build

2019-11-24 Thread Brian Piccioni
Jon Despite MSVC Community being from MS, I see some advantages in using it, namely that it is basically a one-package solution: no msys2, no loads of other tools that have to be updated, etc..  My lack of cmake-foo meant I hit a roadblock when trying to build an MSVC recipe. One time I got so far

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fixes for Visual Studio / vcpkg build

2019-11-29 Thread Brian Piccioni
to the CMake script. Best,Jon On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 6:56 PM Brian Piccioni <br...@documenteddesigns.com> wrote:Jon Despite MSVC Community being from MS, I see some advantages in using it, namely that it is basically a one-package solution: no msys2, no loads of other tools that have to be updated, etc

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-12-01 Thread Brian Piccioni
As a complete amateur user I change footprints in layout all the time in order to experiment with spacing, how things look, modfy footprints, etc.. Sometimes you want to make a change to a library part, flag that part as a new part (I.e. BriansSOIC8), then update all SOIC8 in the layout.  The way

Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB

2019-11-23 Thread Brian Piccioni
: Eeli KaikkonenSent: November 23, 2019 12:56 PMTo: kicad-developersSubject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Back annotate references from PCB   la 23. marrask. 2019 klo 14.52 Brian Piccioni (br...@documenteddesigns.com) kirjoitti:By having a single integrated tool analogous to “Update PCB From Schematic” can

[Kicad-developers] Annotation Epic/Geographic reannotation

2020-03-01 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I haven't had any feedback/comments regarding my merge request or Annotation suggestion for quite a few days now so I don't know whether my comments/pushes are being broadcast or people are simply busy working on other things. So, sorry for the spam. I just added this to the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Annotation Epic/Geographic reannotation

2020-03-01 Thread Brian Piccioni
sed on has diverged) @Ian McInerney <mailto:ian.s.mciner...@ieee.org> since you already were reviewing, any comments on the latest? Best, -Jon On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 12:06 PM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: Hello I haven't had any feedback/comme

Re: [Kicad-developers] Proper way to report bugs on branches

2020-01-27 Thread Brian Piccioni
it easier to figure out what (master) commit is the relevant origin point for the bug report. -Jon On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 7:10 PM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: Hello I have been using Kicad while working on re-annotation (hopefully Alexander's merge r

[Kicad-developers] Proper way to report bugs on branches

2020-01-27 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I have been using Kicad while working on re-annotation (hopefully Alexander's merge request will soon be accepted and I can dust off mine). I have been using branches of the current master. I have noticed a few issues which I think are significant and not related to Alexander's work

Re: [Kicad-developers] Repeat request for help from icon maintainer.

2020-02-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
work. I am providing details in case others have this challenge. I am now waiting for the compile to run but it seems happy. Thanks again! Brian On 2020-02-04 12:27 p.m., jp charras wrote: Le 04/02/2020 à 17:32, Brian Piccioni a écrit : JP Thanks for this. Unfortunately, inkscape and png

Re: [Kicad-developers] Repeat request for help from icon maintainer.

2020-02-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
with a forced error. In general it seems that many related utilities under Msys2 are a dogs breakfasts. Perhaps for the moment it would be best if I simply made my bitmaps manually. Brian On 2020-02-04 9:34 a.m., jp charras wrote: Le 04/02/2020 à 15:06, Brian Piccioni a écrit : Hello I emailed

[Kicad-developers] Creating new icons

2020-02-02 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello In light of Alexander's merge of back annotation I am updating my re-annotation function. The dialog I created is sub-optimal (I did ask for input). I am working on mingw64/msys2 Currently I select re-annotation direction by a text box "top to bottom, left to right", etc.. It would

Re: [Kicad-developers] Creating new icons

2020-02-02 Thread Brian Piccioni
directions icons from eeschema but rotated 0,90,180, and 270 degrees. If anybody knows how to do that programmatically that would be even better. Brian On 2020-02-02 1:01 p.m., Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 7:09 PM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>>

[Kicad-developers] What happened to buses in eeschema?

2020-01-24 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I picked up one of my old designs to update it and ran DRC in eeschema. I got a whole bunch of errors regarding buses ErrType(15): More than one name given to this bus or net ErrType(19): Invalid connection between bus and net items ErrType(16): Net is graphically connected to a bus but

Re: [Kicad-developers] Proper way to report bugs on branches

2020-01-28 Thread Brian Piccioni
RNs. This schematic has only had one sheet ever. I shall recompile the master branch and try and boil down the schematic to something simple to test. Brian On 2020-01-28 3:36 a.m., jp charras wrote: Le 28/01/2020 à 01:10, Brian Piccioni a écrit : Hello I have been using Kicad while

Re: [Kicad-developers] Proper way to report bugs on branches

2020-01-28 Thread Brian Piccioni
reporting procedure but only report bugs there that reproduce in master. If you find a bug that doesn't exist in master but does exist in the MR, then add a thread to the MR with the reproduction steps. Thanks- Seth On 2020-01-28 08:04, Brian Piccioni wrote: Jp Actually, that is the bug: ev

[Kicad-developers] Repeat request for help from icon maintainer.

2020-02-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I emailed earlier because when I follow the directions to create a new icon under MSYS2 it fails. This means that either 1) the directions are wrong or 2) I am following them incorrectly. Perhaps an icon maintainer can get in contact with me and work through this? I basically need to

Re: [Kicad-developers] kicad | WIP: Geographical re-annotation (!56)

2020-02-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
Eeli I wasn't aware the merge. Gitlab is a nightmare for me and I may have closed it accidentally. Ever since I opened my brianadtdocumenteddesigns account it would not let me clone kicad master. Eventually I found a workaround to let me clone alex's fork but then when I tried to fix my

[Kicad-developers] Proposal to update eeSchema annotation?

2020-02-22 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello Now that Geographic Reannotation is a WIP I was thinking it might make sense to update eeSchema's Annotate dialog. I propose the following: *Change to dialog:* **Add to Scope:             Selection Add to Numbering:    Add/Remove prefixes (allows conformance to ASME Y14.44 and IEEE

Re: [Kicad-developers] Proposal to update eeSchema annotation?

2020-02-23 Thread Brian Piccioni
Cool! A great idea. I'd never heard of "epics" before this. On 2020-02-23 11:35 a.m., Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 4:48 PM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: Hello Now that Geographic Reannotation is a WIP I was thinking i

Re: [Kicad-developers] What does /path do in PCBNew files?

2020-02-15 Thread Brian Piccioni
I guess I'd wonder then why provide Copy and Paste/Duplicate if the result is not usable? It seems like a sort of honey pot. On 2020-02-15 6:34 p.m., Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 1:20 AM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: I think opti

Re: [Kicad-developers] What does /path do in PCBNew files?

2020-02-15 Thread Brian Piccioni
speak. The links are reset/updated when you do an Update PCB from Schematic and chose the “re-associate by reference” option.  (The timestamps/UUIDs encode said “association”.) Cheers, Jeff. On 15 Feb 2020, at 23:40, Brian Piccioni <mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: I guess I

Re: [Kicad-developers] What does /path do in PCBNew files?

2020-02-15 Thread Brian Piccioni
. The timestamps are moving to UUIDs as we speak. The links are reset/updated when you do an Update PCB from Schematic and chose the “re-associate by reference” option.  (The timestamps/UUIDs encode said “association”.) Cheers, Jeff. On 15 Feb 2020, at 23:40, Brian Piccioni <mailto

Re: [Kicad-developers] Cryptic characters in source

2020-02-08 Thread Brian Piccioni
Perhaps I misunderstand but I don't see anything (screen grab from notepad++ on Windows 10) On 2020-02-08 4:32 p.m., ja...@veith.net wrote: My editor shows non ascii cryptic characters in master cpp source what I cannot see in the browser. Here it is underscore M and I tried using Emacs what

[Kicad-developers] What does /path do in PCBNew files?

2020-02-15 Thread Brian Piccioni
;(path /" field is duplicated so I end up with two components with the same "(path /" causes, for example "Error: Pcb footprints R100 and R8 linked to same symbol" error on back annotation. This, in turn, causes problems with geographic reannotation. So, can somebody explain w

Re: [Kicad-developers] What does /path do in PCBNew files?

2020-02-15 Thread Brian Piccioni
same symbol" error on back annotation. This, in turn, causes problems with geographic reannotation. So, can somebody explain what (path / is? Thanks Brian Piccioni ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kica

[Kicad-developers] How do I refresh PCB or Schematic window

2020-01-08 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello & thanks for the help. I open a dialog in PCBNew to run my geographical reannotation code and all seems to work, however, I can't figure out how to get the PCBNew or eeSchema displays to refresh to show the result.  I can zoom in/zoom out manually and the new values appear but I would

Re: [Kicad-developers] Geographical reannotation complete and avaiable for test

2020-01-09 Thread Brian Piccioni
-09 9:39 a.m., Seth Hillbrand wrote: On 2020-01-09 06:21, Brian Piccioni wrote: I have been working for several months to incorporate RenumKicadPCB functionality inside Kicad. Meanwhile, Alexander Shuklin has done most of the heavy lifting by writing back-annotation into Kicad which does all

[Kicad-developers] Geographical reannotation complete and avaiable for test

2020-01-09 Thread Brian Piccioni
I have been working for several months to incorporate RenumKicadPCB functionality inside Kicad. Meanwhile, Alexander Shuklin has done most of the heavy lifting by writing back-annotation into Kicad which does all of the error checking, etc., necessary for re-annotation to work. Without his

[Kicad-developers] Issues with clang-format

2020-01-11 Thread Brian Piccioni
I know this isn't a "help me program" mailing list but given the number of formatting issues which I have caused in my merge requests I figure it would be better if I could get this solved. I am on Msys64 on Windows 10 platform I followed the instructions

[Kicad-developers] What is the right build target to produce an installation zip.

2020-01-09 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello This is on Windows. I have been using make -install but this copies files to the Msys directories. How do I make a file I can unzip to/install to my Windows programs directory? Thanks ___ Mailing list:

[Kicad-developers] Request for Issue assignments

2020-01-10 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello Since I have found and suggested fixes for two issues, it occurred to me my limited skills with Kicad development might be useful to fixing issues. I am not good with UI design and probably would have limited value with esoteric bugs but I'd like to offer myself for assignments.

[Kicad-developers] Issues with Github/Gitlab migration

2020-01-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
with their new Gitlab account after the migration they might try that. Brian Piccioni ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help

[Kicad-developers] Advice on merge request

2020-01-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
issues in the schematic and/or PCB so I would like to be sure I catch them all. I would, of course, flag that this is not an official Kicad release, etc.. Any objections/suggestions? thanks Brian Piccioni ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net

Re: [Kicad-developers] Advice on merge request

2020-01-04 Thread Brian Piccioni
Evans <mailto:j...@craftyjon.com>> wrote: I see no problem directing people to your fork/testing branch to compile and test on their own. On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 11:43 AM Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@documenteddesigns.com>> wrote: Hello

Re: [Kicad-developers] Help with Gitlab, push failed to my fork

2020-03-28 Thread Brian Piccioni
Mario I don't know if this is your problem but some projects are set up to mirror the kicad source repository automatically (as mine was). In other words, remote origin did point like this origin  https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad.git (fetch) origin  https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad.git

[Kicad-developers] eeSchema : force refresh of all schematics

2020-03-31 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hi I am working on updating eeschema annotation. I expanded it to work on a selection and current sheet + all subsheets. I am stuck on a weird problem: my code does indeed update all the annotation. I have an unexpected problem with subsheets re-annotation sequencing but I know how to deal

Re: [Kicad-developers] v6 breaking changes to eeschema - starting new refactor wise?

2020-05-12 Thread Brian Piccioni
Nick Thanks for remembering me! I am still hoping for some feedback on my geographic reannotation feature. I did do some work on schematic reannotation but I think it makes sense to put this one to bed as soon as possible. Although geographic reannotation seems finished, I did hit some

[Kicad-developers] Geographic reannotation - any feedback

2020-05-10 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I managed to update my Merge Request (https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/108) to master without any GIT screw ups. The only change I had to make to the code was the name of the PCBNew configuration method. It compiles and runs. I have been using this for some time

Re: [Kicad-developers] Geographic reannotation - any feedback

2020-05-10 Thread Brian Piccioni
Thanks! Gabriel Staples Electric RC Aircraft Guy, LLC www.ElectricRCAircraftGuy.com <http://www.ElectricRCAircraftGuy.com> Check out my "Computa Pranksta" USB device sold on Amazon! (sent from my Android) Le dim. 10 mai 2020 à 8:51 AM, Brian Piccioni mailto:br...@docum

Re: [Kicad-developers] v6 breaking changes to eeschema - starting new refactor wise?

2020-05-13 Thread Brian Piccioni
James Yes, it is entirely separate. Geographic re-annotation require back annotation of the schematic. This required functionality added by Alexannder Shuklin. Annotation of the schematic does not require re-annotation of the PCB, however, my menu does offer the option to update the PCB

Re: [Kicad-developers] Eeschema annotate block / specific component types proposal

2020-05-07 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello James I had been working on this for some time and ran into a brick wall so I set it aside. There seems to be an issue with the structures used within eeSchema (sheets, screens, etc.) which don't seem to consistently track UUIDs, etc. I suspect that this may be because eeSchema

[Kicad-developers] Build on msys2 fails : libngspice-x.dll not found in any executable path

2020-05-19 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I updated Msys2 (pacman -Syuu) and it borked the terminal (basically when building the nice percentages, etc., became more or less random  strings). I decided to reinstall Msys2. I wiped the directory and reinstalled. After doing so and following the directions at

Re: [Kicad-developers] Build on msys2 fails : libngspice-x.dll not found in any executable path

2020-05-24 Thread Brian Piccioni
I am glad to hear it wasn't finger trouble on my part at least. On 2020-05-23 11:55 a.m., jp charras wrote: Le 23/05/2020 à 17:35, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : There is definitely something wrong but I'm not sure where the issue is. I downgraded both cmake a couple of versions but cmake started

[Kicad-developers] Problems with windows installers?

2020-10-12 Thread Brian Piccioni
Hello I downloaded kicad-r18079.88102bca46-x86_64.exe and kicad-r18079.88102bca46-x86_64-lite.exe from https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/index.html?prefix=windows/nightly/ On running both throw up the Microsoft warning warning but clicking "Install Anyway" has no effect. My prior version

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