Hi Wayne, Thanks for your email. I did some changes in kicad source code with the below source files, it mainly focuses on some copy/paste. After a simple check, my code seems to work that adding more 34 copper layers in KiCAD.
Could you please kindly check if those files are enough? [image: image.png] Sincerely Liang On Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 00:45, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Liang, > > The LSET object is merely where it's possible to add new layers but doing > so will not be helpful and possibly harmful if you don't understand how > layers work internally. Virtually every object on boards and footprints > has to understand what the layers mean in order for them to work properly > and the tools used to create and edit them. This doesn't include all of > the DRC and UI changes that would have to be updated for the layer > changes. I don't see this feature request being done by anyone without > years of experience with the KiCad code base. It is a major undertaking. > It's on the development team's list of new features but it's not one that > is requested very often (there are just not that many users that require > more than 32 copper layers) so it may not make it into version 8. > > Cheers, > > Wayne > On 2/22/23 9:47 PM, Liang Jia wrote: > > Hi Stefan, > > Thanks for your reply. > Our products are for chip tests. > > I already know the limitation for KiCAD and this ticket. > > I want to know if I try to add more layer support in KiCAD, which part of > the source code should I pay attention to? bitset for LSET? > > SIncerely > Liang > > On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 at 18:06, Stefan Weber <w-ste...@gmx.ch> wrote: > >> Hi Liang, >> >> There is already a wishlist's gitlab ticket for this >> >> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/7232 >> >> You might give a thumbs up there ;-) >> >> And BTW. 50 copper layer, really? >> I am curious what are you designing? >> >> As you can see here >> https://docs.kicad.org/7.0/en/pcbnew/pcbnew.html#capabilities >> >> > KiCad is capable of creating printed circuit boards with up to 32 >> copper layers, >> > 14 technical layers (silkscreen, solder mask, component adhesive, >> solder paste, etc), and 13 general-purpose drawing layers. >> >> So when you don't need 50 copper layer, there might be already enough >> layers ;-) >> >> Best regards, >> Stefan >> >> lantian...@gmail.com schrieb am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2023 um 08:18:46 >> UTC+1: >> >>> Hi Dear KiCAD Group, >>> >>> We want to use KiCAD for our products, but we found one limitation which >>> block us. >>> The max copper layer is 32 now. but our products need more than 50 >>> layers. >>> I searched the group, there are not related information, so I start this >>> conversation. >>> >>> I have two questions? >>> 1. Why there is only 32 layers in KiCAD? >>> 2. If we want to adapt the code of KiCAD to support more higher layer, >>> Is it possible? >>> Which point we should take care? >>> >>> Sincerely >>> Liang >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAE0Ak8aJeP3F%2BbPgkJveQR_BThu2F%3D-T9kh63UnLBi5fti7DxQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAE0Ak8aJeP3F%2BbPgkJveQR_BThu2F%3D-T9kh63UnLBi5fti7DxQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/42d3e1b6-4fa2-b04e-4dc2-c11bfa9844dd%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/42d3e1b6-4fa2-b04e-4dc2-c11bfa9844dd%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CAE0Ak8b_kU0E%2BJTaW_kfxiqx08xH9k5Me9DTc8pr91OjQNynrw%40mail.gmail.com.
