On 21 September 2012 16:22, Craig Southeren <cra...@postincrement.com> wrote: > To all,
... > 4) I am working on additions to pcbnew that allow the use of one or two > bitmap underlays for > assisting in layout. I'm using this to bring some old vintage computer > designs back to life, but they > could be just as useful when trying to fit a PCB into a complex mechanical > layout. I guess these > are similar to Clive Nicolson's "reversepcb" code but my patches fully > integrate the functionality > into layers 29 and 30. If you don't turn on these layers in the layer > management dialog, then > the functionality is completely turned off. > > Is this of interest to anyone? > > Craig Hi Craig, Is this not something that bitmap2component can achieve for you? You can create a footprint from a bitmap and place it down. Generally used for logos, but you should be able to scale accurately from a bitmap fairly easily I would have thought? Best Regards, Brian. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
