Re: [Kicad-developers] FW: Export to ODB++

2015-09-13 Thread Marco Hess
On 13-Sep-15 19:03, jp charras wrote: There are still missing X2 features in KiCad (drill files and a few others). Is there a list somewhere of which X2 features are missing? ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : k

Re: [Kicad-developers] Any pointers to the core of this problem with DXF poly import in footprint editor?

2015-09-13 Thread Marco Hess
BezierC1; m_BezierPoints = rhs.m_BezierPoints; +m_PolyPoints = rhs.m_PolyPoints; return *this; } On 13-Sep-15 15:12, Marco Hess wrote: On and off I have been looking into getting DXF drawings imported as filled polygons on copper layers. While this is working fine in pcbnew, I h

[Kicad-developers] Any pointers to the core of this problem with DXF poly import in footprint editor?

2015-09-12 Thread Marco Hess
On and off I have been looking into getting DXF drawings imported as filled polygons on copper layers. While this is working fine in pcbnew, I have been bumping into a problem doing the same the module editor. The problem is that the polygon looses the polygon coordinates on the import and th

[Kicad-developers] On the DXF import dialog in 'default' vs. GAL canvas.

2015-09-09 Thread Marco Hess
Just on the DXF import dialog now I played with it a bit more again, I noted that there is a distinct behavioural difference depending on the canvas used. In the 'default' canvas, the import allows the setting the origin of the DXF relative to the board and works as advertised. However, in t

Re: [Kicad-developers] dxf: import 4 arcs

2015-09-09 Thread Marco Hess
search inside palta2.dxf you find POLYLINE that are not supported by kicad attached a comparison of dxf files I suspect that the problem is when exporting dxf from FreeCAD... I had some trouble with a different board path exported from FreeCAD... In FreeCAD you cannot select whi

Re: [Kicad-developers] dxf: import 4 arcs

2015-09-09 Thread Marco Hess
rent board path exported from FreeCAD... In FreeCAD you cannot select which version of dxf you want to use, if I remember correctly... Maurice On 09/09/2015 07.43, Marco Hess wrote: Definitely a problem with the DXF importer I would say as the resulting data in the PCB file are just straigh

Re: [Kicad-developers] dxf: import 4 arcs

2015-09-08 Thread Marco Hess
Edge.Cuts) (width 0.1)) (gr_line (start 50.392159 49.187096) (end 27.328145 43.265288) (layer Edge.Cuts) (width 0.1)) (gr_line (start 52.25 35.66) (end 50.392159 49.187096) (layer Edge.Cuts) (width 0.1)) Marco On 09-Sep-15 14:58, Marco Hess wrote: Hi Marcos, Apologies, but I did not see your

Re: [Kicad-developers] dxf: import 4 arcs

2015-09-08 Thread Marco Hess
Hi Marcos, Apologies, but I did not see your original email where you said you tried the R12 format alreayd. I tried it as well and and it indeed seems to do something strange with just connecting the end points of the circles or something. Regards, Marco On 09-Sep-15 14:29, Marco Hess

Re: [Kicad-developers] dxf: import 4 arcs

2015-09-08 Thread Marco Hess
it from 4 arcs, see attached. ___ 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 -- Marco

[Kicad-developers] Help menu in KiCad

2015-08-28 Thread Marco Hess
Just tried the latest windows r6132 build and the help menu still says 'Help file 'kicad' could not be found.' Just not sure if these help menu's are expected to work 'yet'? Also, the help documents that are installed in the windows package at 'C:\KiCad\share\doc\kicad\help\en' appear to be

Re: [Kicad-developers] How to Build KiCAD from Source Cloned from Git Miorr Souce?

2015-08-25 Thread Marco Hess
You might find some guidance here: https://forum.kicad.info/t/manual-build-recipy-for-kicad-on-fedora-22/1072 Quoting Joseph Chen : Can someone point me to a good instruction of building KiCAD from the git mirror source? And What I missed that is resulting some errors shown below? BTW,

Re: [Kicad-developers] [Patch] Add gitlab support to github plugin

2015-08-17 Thread Marco Hess
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[Kicad-developers] http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/Windows

2015-08-02 Thread Marco Hess
When searching for KiCad Windows I find that Google tends to direct you to: http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/Windows which has really old info and only links to the old stable release with no mention of the more recent development releases. Only when you go in through the home page and

Re: [Kicad-developers] DXF import only works in default Canvas.

2015-08-02 Thread Marco Hess
5 02:40 AM, Marco Hess wrote: Hi Maciej, I am testing this on Windows version: (2015-07-11 BZR 5925, Git c291b88)-product release build In all cases I have the DXF import dialog (both PCB new and module editor). It is just when the OpenGL canvas is active, clicking Ok in the dialog, there is

Re: [Kicad-developers] DXF import only works in default Canvas.

2015-07-29 Thread Marco Hess
the antenna DXF that I am trying this with. Marco On 29-Jul-15 22:25, Maciej Sumiński wrote: On 07/29/2015 12:25 PM, Marco Hess wrote: [snip] But the DXF import only working in legacy mode and not in the other modes is a definitely a bug I think. Marco Hi Marco, I have just tried importing th

Re: [Kicad-developers] DXF import only works in default Canvas.

2015-07-29 Thread Marco Hess
(could you zip it?) thank you Maurice On 29/07/2015 12.25, Marco Hess wrote: Sorry Nick, I could have worded that better. I am working on making the DXF import as an area. So I have a modified version of dxf2brd_items that in addPolyline detects that a 'fill_polygon' flag is set (in th

Re: [Kicad-developers] DXF import only works in default Canvas.

2015-07-29 Thread Marco Hess
and not in the other modes is a definitely a bug I think. Marco On 29-Jul-15 18:58, Nick Østergaard wrote: 2015-07-29 2:35 GMT+02:00 Marco Hess : Hi, I am still experimenting with the DXF import feature and something I found is that the DXF import only seems to work in the default canvas. I

[Kicad-developers] DXF import only works in default Canvas.

2015-07-28 Thread Marco Hess
Hi, I am still experimenting with the DXF import feature and something I found is that the DXF import only seems to work in the default canvas. If the others OpenGL or Cairo canvas is active, the DXF import does nothing, i.e. nothing gets imported in pcbnew. I suspect this might be a bug. A

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix corrupted command output messaging in BOM Generate dialog.

2015-07-01 Thread Marco Hess
Attached two patches related to the BOM Generation dialog. I had a problem running batch files that hanged KiCad that previously worked OK. I reported that in Bug #1470323. However, I had a silly thing in that batch file with a pause which caused the hang as it was waiting on input. However,

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Reduced line width of polygon in bitmap to footprint import.

2015-06-30 Thread Marco Hess
Good question. Did not try that. Is a width of 0 allowed? On 30-Jun-15 18:14, Nick Østergaard wrote: Why does the polygon even have a width? Can't it just be zero? Den 30/06/2015 03.04 skrev "Marco Hess" <mailto:marco.h...@through-ip.com>>: Minor patch to reduc

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Reduced line width of polygon in bitmap to footprint import.

2015-06-29 Thread Marco Hess
Minor patch to reduce the polygon line width used the bitmap2component import. The existing 0.1 mm linewidth reduces the accuracy of the imported bitmap outline. As it is a filled polygon anyway, the line width can be quite small and gives beter looking results this way. diff --git a/bitmap2com

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Skip redundant repetition of component name in component chooser

2015-06-25 Thread Marco Hess
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Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use specific gerber extensions for inner Cu layers and the Edge_Cuts layer in preference to the default .gbr .

2015-06-25 Thread Marco Hess
One of the reasons I did this patch was in an attempt to deal with some of the PCB manufacturers I am using. If I send them the default named KiCad files they did not understand the Gerbers at all. They basically complained that the ZIP I send them only contained a drill file. I found that man

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use specific gerber extensions for inner Cu layers and the Edge_Cuts layer in preference to the default .gbr .

2015-06-25 Thread Marco Hess
n the product branch r5818. Thank you for your contribution to KiCad. Cheers, Wayne On 6/21/2015 1:25 AM, Marco Hess wrote: The attached patch is a minor fix to the Protel gerber file name extensions to assign a more specific extension to internal Cu layers as well as the Edge_Cuts layer as d

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use specific gerber extensions for inner Cu layers and the Edge_Cuts layer in preference to the default .gbr .

2015-06-25 Thread Marco Hess
Hi Mitch, While this patch adds the inner copper layers and the board outline on the Protel/Altium Mechanical Layer 1, there are still a few layers 'unassigned' and still use the default '.grb' extensions. Among these are Dwgs_User, Cmts_User, Eco1_User, Eco2_User and any further unspecified

[Kicad-developers] Debug tracing on Windows

2015-06-25 Thread Marco Hess
I am still new to KiCad and wxWidgerts development and as yet have not managed to get any trace output from KiCad for debug purposes. I see some wxLog type messages being used througout the code, but can't find where these are enabled? How do I enable those in my Windows build? I would love t

[Kicad-developers] Importing DXF polygons in pcbnew vs. footprint editor

2015-06-25 Thread Marco Hess
I am experimenting some more with importing DXF files into pcbnew and the footprint editor as a filled polygon and I have added some code to DXF2BRD_CONVERTER::addPolyline() to do that so like so: { DRAWSEGMENT* poly = new DRAWSEGMENT( NULL ); std::vector pts; for( uns

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Allow HTML files in KiCad project manager to be opened in browser

2015-06-21 Thread Marco Hess
For your consideration a patch that extends the KiCad project manager to recognise HTML files in the project browser and open them in the default browser when clicked on. I use this feature quite a bit as I generate my various BOM and other reports through python scripts and in both HTML and C

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix sloppy polygon tracing for board outline (RESUBMIT)

2015-06-21 Thread Marco Hess
Attached a patch with a fix for the 'sloppy' board outline tracing that was used in pcbnew/specctra_export.cpp I submitted a similar patch earlier but that has not been merged yet. That previous patch may also have been a bit more messy and in some spots even violated the coding rules. So wi

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix for .gitconfig to enable .bzrignore for git and added explanation for its use.

2015-06-21 Thread Marco Hess
then. Marco On 21-Jun-15 21:14, Nick Østergaard wrote: Ahh ok, I see. So I will have to do cat .gitconfig >> .git/config to actually enable it. 2015-06-21 13:18 GMT+02:00 Marco Hess : Yes, positive. I read up on it in the git documentation. The only config file that Git uses wi

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix for .gitconfig to enable .bzrignore for git and added explanation for its use.

2015-06-21 Thread Marco Hess
Østergaard wrote: But are you sure that you need to enabled that in the .git/config? 2015-06-21 12:04 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard : Ahh that was what was missing, i have been wondering about that for a while. 2015-06-21 5:12 GMT+02:00 Marco Hess : I am using Git in my KiCad development and found

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Use specific gerber extensions for inner Cu layers and the Edge_Cuts layer in preference to the default .gbr .

2015-06-20 Thread Marco Hess
The attached patch is a minor fix to the Protel gerber file name extensions to assign a more specific extension to internal Cu layers as well as the Edge_Cuts layer as described here on the Altium site: http://techdocs.altium.com/display/ADRR/WorkspaceManager_Dlg-GerberSetup_Form((Gerber+Setup)

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix for .gitconfig to enable .bzrignore for git and added explanation for its use.

2015-06-20 Thread Marco Hess
I am using Git in my KiCad development and found that I had problems with ignoring generated files. After some stuffing around I found it was supposed to be handled through configuring git to use the .bzringore file through a .gitconfig file. However, this was not working correctly with the =

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Fix to closing polylines in DXF imports

2015-06-18 Thread Marco Hess
shows as a closed polyline. Regards, Marco -- Marco Hess === modified file pcbnew/import_dxf/dxf2brd_items.cpp --- pcbnew/import_dxf/dxf2brd_items.cpp 2015-02-22 09:39:58 + +++ pcbnew/import_dxf/dxf2brd_items.cpp 2015-06-18 13:58:25 + @@ -128,7 +128,8 @@ // So we have to convert a p

Re: [Kicad-developers] DXF import in pcbnew: asking for feature Ellipse entity

2015-06-18 Thread Marco Hess
ittle line missing and in 3d-viewer will not became closed... could you please try it and see if it is patchable to import correctly the ellipse (dxf r12)? That will improve the import DXF in pcbnew and may be it could be inserted in the stable release... thank you for your great work! Mauri

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] pcbnew: Improved complex board shape handling from DXF imports

2015-06-15 Thread Marco Hess
ITEM::FormatInternalUnits( prevPt.x ).c_str() ) ), +GetChars( FROM_UTF8( BOARD_ITEM::FormatInternalUnits( prevPt.y ).c_str() ) ), +GetChars( FROM_UTF8( BOARD_ITEM::FormatInternalUnits( close_ness( startPt, prevPt ) ).c_str()

[Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Increased CMake download timeout for boost and openssl

2015-06-14 Thread Marco Hess
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