Hi Andrew- At the moment, SWIG doesn't support the nested classes used for SHAPE_LINE_CHAIN by default [1]. So the polygon data will not be accessible without someone devoting some time to SWIG-ing the classes.
Best- Seth [1] http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/SWIGPlus.html#SWIGPlus_nested_classes Am Mo., 27. Aug. 2018 um 04:44 Uhr schrieb Andrew Lutsenko < [email protected]>: > Hello Kicad team, > > I'm writing a pcbnew action plugin that needs to read footprint pad > coordinates and shape. > I had no trouble figuring out all shapes except for custom one. It is > represented by SHAPE_POLY_SET which has a corresponding python type but to > get actual vertex coordinates you have to either call one of Iterate() > variants or get polygon outlines with Outline(). They both return objects > (ITERATOR and SHAPE_LINE_CHAIN) that are pointers and have no useful > attributes. As far as I understand they just don't have corresponding swig > bindings so they are not exposed properly in python. > > Am I missing some obvious way to read custom pad polygon data in python? > > If not, what would it take to add that? > > I don't understand much about how swig configuration works but cursory > glance at Kicad source suggests that there needs to be an import for > shape_line_chain.h in common/swig/kicad.i > > If you are curious about what the plugin does, here are some of it's > results, generated from Kicad demos: > http://plugindemo.bitballoon.com/1/ > http://plugindemo.bitballoon.com/2/ <-- this one has a solder bridge with > custom shape pads which is not rendered > http://plugindemo.bitballoon.com/3/ > > Above links are short lived. > > Regards, > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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