Re: [kicad] Some questions to the roadmap for next time

2024-02-29 Thread Kliment (Future Bits)
Hello Rafał, KiCad development was never on GitHub - it was originally on Launchpad and later moved to GitLab. The issue (and therefore feature request) tracker is at https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/ - you can search for related issues there, or start a new one. Hope this helps

Re: [kicad] APDS-9190 Proximity Sensor

2024-01-19 Thread Kliment (Future Bits)
Hello Kevin, I'm one of the KiCad librarians. Thank you for asking to contribute to KiCad's libraries. Our library development happens on Gitlab, and questions like this are best handled in a merge request submitted to https://gitlab.com/kicad/libraries/kicad-symbols with your proposed symbol.

Re: [kicad] kicad symbols and footprint version branches?

2023-01-25 Thread Kliment (Future Bits)
On 20.01.23 11:53, Mika Laitio wrote: Small addition to my previous answer - we now have a v6 branch on packages3d as well as we pushed a breaking change to some models that makes them incompatible with their corresponding v6 footprints. So you should ideally use the latest v6 tag for all three

Re: [kicad] kicad symbols and footprint version branches?

2023-01-23 Thread Kliment (Future Bits)
Hi, sorry for the confusion there. The symbols repo has been migrated to v7. You should no longer use the master branch from symbols for v6 dailies (as you noticed). Footprints have not yet been migrated in format, but will be eventually and already contain references to v7 paths. 3d models wi

Re: [kicad] feature wishlist

2022-11-20 Thread Kliment (Future Bits)
Check out the "replicate layout" plugin in the plugin and content manager. It does exactly this. There are plans to implement this in the main application for a later version, but for now the plugin should get you most of the way there. OK thenx, (BTW: as I said, I'm not using autoruoter ..

Re: [kicad] feature wishlist

2022-11-20 Thread Kliment (Future Bits)
On 20.11.22 16:45, 'Rafał Pietrak' via KiCad Developers wrote: Hello, I'm new to KiCAD, and after starting a project I've noticed, that: Hi Rafal, welcome! 1. once I do create a PCB from new schematic, the parts are lumped together pretty randomly. I tried to figure out where in the sourc

Re: [kicad] Handling of 3D models

2022-09-22 Thread Kliment (Future Bits)
To add to this, for parts that have both a wrl and STEP model, if the wrl model is enabled there is a checkbox in the STEP exporter to replace similarly-named files, which then uses the same-name STEP for the export. That's the easiest way to export STEP while WRL is enabled for the display.