On 03/07/2023 12:49, Stuart Tyler wrote:
Hi, this is my first ever post here. I am really impressed with the
development of KiCad over the past few releases. The python interface is
really good and I am keen to learn. I have been designing PCBs for a few
decades now and keen to help improve KiCad.
I have seen some discussion on supporting Flex/Rigid in Issue #12928 and
#8118. This is way beyond my KiCad development ability, but this
development is very important to taking KiCad to the next level - please
reach out to me for any Beta testing on this development - I have
designed many Flex/Rigid PCBs and know many of the implementation
issues. This feature will open so many new development possibilities for
KiCad.
What I have been working on for the past few days is understanding how I
can implement multiple track dragging from isssue #14983. I think this
is something within my programming capability and is a feature that I
really want. I cannot imagine having to route a decent sized PCB without
this feature - and so I am keen to work on a simple solution.
Hi Stuart,
Thanks for your interest in contributing to KiCad.
To quickly answer your questions:
- Python is a bad idea because there's no interactive tools support in
the pcbnew Python API. It's intended to be used mostly for batch
(one-shot) tools.
- As for C++, the single track drag code is in pns_dragger.cpp.
(PNS::DRAGGER::Move() performs the actual computation of dragged trace's
geometry). I guess you could start by making another implementation of
PNS::DRAG_ALGO that drags multiple traces. It should be relatively
simple to implement in the "mark collisions" mode, but nowhere near
simple in walk/shove modes, especially when vias are attached to the
ends of any subset of the multidrag traces...
Tom
--
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/8b46f732-30b0-2d1f-4e98-eacd32172510%40cern.ch.
