Re: [kicad] Unintuitive behavior of the action “Assign Netclass” in KiCad8

2024-11-18 Thread 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers
unction. > > BR, > Jan > > >> Am 13.11.24 um 23:43 schrieb 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers: >> schematic rule area with an attached directive label > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > &q

Re: [kicad] Unintuitive behavior of the action “Assign Netclass” in KiCad8

2024-11-13 Thread 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers
Jan, In the nightlies you can use a schematic rule area with an attached directive label to assign a netclass to any net contained within the rule area - that's less clutter than the many directive labels method you're showing. They are describe with an example at the end of the netclasses section

Re: [kicad] Introduction and suggestion for schematic netlist highlighting

2024-08-13 Thread 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers
add another wire >>>>>>>> to a >>>>>>>> coloured net, that wire will also pick up the net colour. I don't >>>>>>>> think, >>>>>>>> without assigning a netclass, we have a way to do this at the moment >&g

Re: [kicad] Introduction and suggestion for schematic netlist highlighting

2024-08-12 Thread 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers
> netclass-defined colour to the PCB, which seems an integral part of this >>>>>>> feature for assisting in laying out complex boards). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yours, >>>>>>> James. >>>>>>> >>>

Re: [kicad] Returning to contributing - high speed design tools

2024-03-01 Thread 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers
Quite - that's exactly my point about possibilities of optimisation - lots of options for how to do so. But all those require re-architecting of existing underlying 'stuff' to enable it. (Batch DRC already uses worker threads, by the way, for some types of rules, but not currently for the length /

Re: [kicad] Returning to contributing - high speed design tools

2024-03-01 Thread 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers
Hi Glen, Yes I've already raised the (potential) issue of the real-time computation cost of the length tuning rules - it's essentially an O(MxN) algorithm (M = number of rules, N = number of PCB items), which does worry me from a scaling point of view as people hopefully develop more complex board

Re: [kicad] Returning to contributing - high speed design tools

2024-03-01 Thread 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers
Hi Glen, Yes I've already raised the (potential) issue of the real-time computation cost of the length tuning rules - it's essentially an O(MxN) algorithm (M = number of rules, N = number of PCB items), which does worry me from a scaling point of view as people hopefully develop more complex board

Re: [kicad] Returning to contributing - high speed design tools

2024-03-01 Thread 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers
Hi Glen, For what it's worth, I do agree that the editability / organisation of rules could do with some evolution. It's definitely a topic of live discussion on the issues! But the tuning tools is orthogonal to whatever does or doesn't happen in that space; the starting premise is that the DRC ru

Re: [kicad] Returning to contributing - high speed design tools

2024-03-01 Thread 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers
grasp. > What I needed was effective end-to-end length tuning of 16+ bit bus across > different networks and through some damper resistors. I hope you can come > up > with a more user friendly UI for things like that :) > > Best regards, > Oleg Endo > > On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 07:

Re: [kicad] Returning to contributing - high speed design tools

2024-02-29 Thread 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers
'like this product does'. It's all good information to feed the design process though. Yours, James. On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 02:50, Oleg Endo wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2024-02-26 at 19:03 +, 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers > wrote: > > > > 2.

Re: [kicad] Returning to contributing - high speed design tools

2024-02-26 Thread 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers
n the Zulip Chat, but have changed my email address fairly > recently. Is it possible to get a new link please? > > Please contact me off-list, the list hides your email address. > > Best, > Jon > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 2:03 PM 'James Jackson' via KiCad Develope

[kicad] Returning to contributing - high speed design tools

2024-02-26 Thread 'James Jackson' via KiCad Developers
Hi all, I contributed a bit back before the v6 and v7 releases, but due to a new job and moving house I had to take a step back from development. I've got some time available again, and the 8.0.0 release has spurred me on again. I would like to work on some features for 9.00, primarily around tool