Hello Oliver, On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 9:34 AM 'White Fox' via KiCad Developers < devlist@kicad.org> wrote:
> > As far I know, KiCAD has no support for multiboard projects. I looked > out for something like a road map and found something on gitlab, but > maybe outdated. Last edit was 2020. > Personally I have come to the conclusion that long-term roadmaps are of limited use, especially for KiCad. At the moment we focus more on planning for the next upcoming release. Anything that is not being actively worked on for that next release is considered "unplanned". > So I would like to know, what KiCAD devs think about multiboard > projects. Are they on track for KiCAD development, was this already > discussed? Or will this overload development capacities? > This falls into the category of things that have been talked about, but there are no immediate plans and nobody is working on it. > I think I could at least contribute some > experience. (Unfortunately, Altium supports multiboard projects, but in > a poorly way, it could be much more powerfull.) > The first step would be to have some discussion of what problems we are trying to solve, and then we can brainstorm possible ways of solving them. Often, people who are experienced with other tools like to talk about features in terms of the other tools: "KiCad should do it like X", or "KiCad should not do it like Y". What I find more useful is to make sure to discuss what people actually need to do, independent of what tool they use, and agree on that first. It is then easier to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various possible ways of doing it. For "multiboard projects" I think if you ask 5 people, you will possibly get 5 different answers about what this feature means, and what they want to do with it. So, figuring this out (and getting it documented) is a good first step. > > The same I wrote for multiboard projects I could repeat for pcb > variation support, but I better do not and just mentioned it. > Variants are planned and being more actively worked on, although there are a number of things that have to happen first, and I think schematic variant support will come before PCB variant support. Best, Jon -- 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/CA%2BqGbCCF2av3Efih-fP_ZVcum3Q45tBgpMAQ6nrN5GZ6mOMabg%40mail.gmail.com.
