Orson, I just checked out the video. Nice work.
Hopefully I can get the selection tool branch merged and committed today. I'm doing the Window's build right now. After I get it committed I will start testing the drawing_tool branch. Thanks, Wayne On 3/8/2014 8:56 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote: > Ladies and gentlemen, > > This time our branch [lp:~cern-kicad/kicad/drawing_tool] brings some > drawing tools to the GAL canvas in pcbnew. The most important changes: > - tools are bound to the respective buttons on the right toolbar (there > is no "Selection tool" or "Interactive router" entry in menu) > - new tools make possible to draw zones, lines, circles, arcs (the last > one is a improved a bit; '/' changes the direction of arc) and place > modules, texts, dimensions and targets > - you can change the line width while drawing (using -/+ keys) > - by default you can draw lines/zones at any angle; to enable 45 degree > mode (resembling push and shove router) you may hold Ctrl while drawing > - after selecting a single graphical item, you will see edit points that > allow you to modify vertices by dragging them; it also supports 45 > degree mode activated by holding Ctrl > > You may have a look on a short demo presenting the mentioned features: > https://vimeo.com/88430298 (or even better - build the branch and test > it yourself). > > Next features in the plan: > - edit points for dimensions > - drawing drc markers > - updating coordinates displayed on the statusbar (cursor position) > - support for some missing hot keys (e.g. zoom in/out, changing layers) > - configuration dialog & menus for the Push & Shove router > - fix a number of places where pcb is updated in the default canvas, but > the GAL canvas had to be switch back and forth to show the changes > > Regards, > Orson > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
