Le 13/03/2018 à 18:24, Seth Hillbrand a écrit : > Hi JP- > > I gave it a spin and definitely like it! I have been using custom footprints > for capacitive > sensors, but this is much better. A couple thoughts: > > 1) I'd prefer to have the angle saved as a parameter in the file rather than > a fixed list of options.
Yes, good idea. > 2) We'll definitely need to address the polygon issue. I created a 10cmx10cm > board and filled it > with 45° at the minimum width/50% fill and my computer froze for 2 minutes > while it thought about > it. Strangely, when I checked it was only using one core, so I'm not sure > why the wm froze during > the calculation. Maybe some interaction with the graphics card. > Strange. What is the zone setup? For basic boards, the fill zone calculation time is not noticeable on my computer. Noticeable calculation time (a few seconds) happens only for *large* boards. > If we can't fix the polygons before this, we should probably have a > dummy-check pop-up warning of > long compute times. The polygons get calculated twice on closing the zone > edit window. Once with > the cursor showing busy and then again with no indication of work. This > happens again when > highlighting. > > Best- > Seth Trying to guess if the calculation time is long is really not easy. > > 2018-03-13 8:48 GMT-07:00 jp charras <jp.char...@wanadoo.fr > <mailto:jp.char...@wanadoo.fr>>: > > Le 13/03/2018 à 14:05, Jon Evans a écrit : > > Nice work! It may just be experimental, but it seems pretty close to a > feature for 6.0 to me :-) > > I gave it a try on various boards I have worked on recently and it > seems to work as advertised and > > is not noticeably slower than a solid fill on my computer. > > > > Assuming we work out any issues related to this, I thought of two > features we might want to add > > after this: > > 1) Allow 45-degree grids instead of just 90 > > 2) Add a DRC check for stitching vias that would have connected to a > solid fill but are off-grid and > > thus disconnected in grid fill? > > > > -Jon > > Attached the experimental grid pattern in zone fill patch, with 45 degree > grid option. > > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:10 AM, jp charras <jp.char...@wanadoo.fr > <mailto:jp.char...@wanadoo.fr> <mailto:jp.char...@wanadoo.fr > <mailto:jp.char...@wanadoo.fr>>> > > wrote: > > > > I wrote a purely experimental option to fill zones (copper and not > copper) with a grid patter. > > It is only an experimental feature made mainly to know what issues > can be created by this feature. > > > > The main issue is the fact polygons have much more corners, thus > creating a longer calculation time. > > (However, grid pattern is expected to be used in specific cases) > > > > It should be compatible with the current DRC. > > > > Regards > > > > -- > > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS -- Jean-Pierre CHARRAS _______________________________________________ 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
