Re: [Kicad-developers] Script access to pcb plot

2012-08-20 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 04:04:55PM -0500, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > If this is repeatable from one spin to the next on any given board, I see > this having > great potential to achieve better consistency, and with less human error, > than what is > currently achievable. Also means less than 30 mi

Re: [Kicad-developers] Script access to pcb plot

2012-08-20 Thread Miguel Angel
I will be short: awesome!!! Enviado desde un móvil El 20/08/2012, a las 23:04, Dick Hollenbeck escribió: > On 08/20/2012 12:02 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: >> # We have just generated 21 plotfiles with a single script > > You so freely give away credit. :) > > > > Take a bow, please. >

Re: [Kicad-developers] Script access to pcb plot

2012-08-20 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/20/2012 12:02 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > # We have just generated 21 plotfiles with a single script You so freely give away credit. :) Take a bow, please. If this is repeatable from one spin to the next on any given board, I see this having great potential to achieve better consi

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema grid size

2012-08-20 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 08:54:09PM +0200, jean-pierre charras wrote: > > The actual size when printed depends on paper size, margins... Another itchy point, paper size and margin:P 10mm or 20mm, with or without filing margin and that's only scraping the issues *I* know that, people with quality a

Re: [Kicad-developers] eeschema grid size

2012-08-20 Thread jean-pierre charras
Le 20/08/2012 20:28, Lorenzo Marcantonio a écrit : Is there a reason for eeschema to only have imperial grids? (probably because internally works in mils?) There are people which would like to work in metric in eeschema, too (with custom libs, obviously) Lorenzo, For a schematic tool, the gri

[Kicad-developers] eeschema grid size

2012-08-20 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
Is there a reason for eeschema to only have imperial grids? (probably because internally works in mils?) There are people which would like to work in metric in eeschema, too (with custom libs, obviously) -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl ___ Mailing li

[Kicad-developers] Script access to pcb plot

2012-08-20 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
OK, done the deed, it seems to work. There is one thing I'm still undecided for, mostly for the user's convenience of use. I attached a test script which showcases most of the features. As you can see with the BOARD you can create a PLOT_CONTROLLER. The plot controller contains the plot setting o

Re: [Kicad-developers] possible typo or not? $EndSCHEMATC

2012-08-20 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
On 08/20/2012 05:41 AM, Kaspar Bumke wrote: > That's the SWEET library right? No, SWEET pertains only to the part descriptions, i.e. what you find in a schematic library. > Is that documented somewhere beyond the proposal? The new schematic file format is in proposal form, and is an *.odt doc

Re: [Kicad-developers] possible typo or not? $EndSCHEMATC

2012-08-20 Thread Kaspar Bumke
That's the SWEET library right? Is that documented somewhere beyond the proposal? Any example files? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-

Re: [Kicad-developers] possible typo or not? $EndSCHEMATC

2012-08-20 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 06:11:16AM -0400, Carl Rash wrote: > Why not a context free grammar definition. It seems to me that the so-called > parser is actually nothing but a character stream scanner. > A formal definition would help in many ways. The old file formats are being deprecated. The new o

[Kicad-developers] Python objects lifecycle

2012-08-20 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
I've done the scripted plotting patch and it substantially works-as-advertised; now I'll just have to port it to the main branch (not a lot of work usually). I'd expect to have a public patch tonight. During test I've noticed/tought about a couple of things, mostly due to my ignorance about python

Re: [Kicad-developers] possible typo or not? $EndSCHEMATC

2012-08-20 Thread Carl Rash
Why not a context free grammar definition. It seems to me that the so-called parser is actually nothing but a character stream scanner. A formal definition would help in many ways. -Original Message- From: kicad-developers-bounces+crash=triad.rr@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:kicad-develo

Re: [Kicad-developers] possible typo or not? $EndSCHEMATC

2012-08-20 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 04:22:33PM +0200, Edwin van den Oetelaar wrote: > Should this not read "$EndSchematic\n" > to be consistent? Uhmm.. *maybe* > It appears that during reading of the file just "$End" is matched. Exactly, so in practice it doesn't matter XD eeschema parser is easy to please