On 20.11.22 16:45, 'Rafał Pietrak' via KiCad Developers wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to KiCAD, and after starting a project I've noticed, that:
Hi Rafal, welcome!
1. once I do create a PCB from new schematic, the parts are lumped
together pretty randomly. I tried to figure out where in the sources,
that happens, but wasn't able to locate relevant module ... this is why
I'm writing here. I'd like to modify the "initial creation" of PCB so,
that footprints are lied down "just like they are on schematic diagram".
Meaning, X-Y position of a part reflects its X-Y symbol position. This
is because 90% of the time, that would be my desired component layout.
A dramatically better implementation (thanks dsa-t!) of this was merged
recently and will be in the next major release (v7). See
https://forum.kicad.info/t/post-v6-new-features-and-development-news/32633/76
for details. You can look at the underlying merge request to see where
and how it's implemented. The merge request is at
https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/1325
2. I've worked with hierachy sheets, and in particular, I've replicated
one sub-sheet to have an array of functionality (like memory array).
Since I'm doing most of the trace layout by hand (autorouter still
doesn't work for me) I have to repeat the routing task for every
subsheet with that same sub-functionality. A feature that brings layout
and routing of one sheet to components of its' copy would be great.
Check out the "replicate layout" plugin in the plugin and content
manager. It does exactly this. There are plans to implement this in the
main application for a later version, but for now the plugin should get
you most of the way there.
3. then again, some of my projects are multi-pcb. It would help greatly,
if one could mark certain diagram-sheets (in the hierarchy), that this
particular level will be on separate PCB.... so that pcb editor don't
clutter the view with components, that are not destined for that
particular pcb (sub pcb).
Multi-pcb support is planned for a future version of KiCad. For now, you
can mark all the components on that sheet to be excluded from PCB. Sadly
it's not yet possible to do this for the whole sheet in one step, you
have to do it component by component.
Anyway. Should there be a chance somebody give me an idea where to look
into sources to work on feature (1), I'd be greatfull.
-R
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