Re: [Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-05 Thread Murat Ursavaş
Actually, developing it as a plug-in looks like a better idea, since the KiCad codebase is really huge and not easy to get in the first sight. I'm not sure about the plugin manager, though. I guess my experience with KiCad won't be enough for that :) On 05-03-2015 11:13, Nick Østergaard wrot

Re: [Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-05 Thread Nick Østergaard
2015-03-05 10:07 GMT+01:00 LordBlick : > In response to a message written on 02.03.2015, 23:10, from Murat Ursavaş: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to KiCad development and have some ideas to include into the >> package. >> The most important one is "Assembly Variant Management", which is missing, >> AFAIK

Re: [Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-05 Thread LordBlick
In response to a message written on 02.03.2015, 23:10, from Murat Ursavaş: Hi, I'm new to KiCad development and have some ideas to include into the package. The most important one is "Assembly Variant Management", which is missing, AFAIK. Am I right? Is there anybody working on this subject? I'

Re: [Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-04 Thread Murat Ursavaş
Thiadmer, Thanks. Good to know such product. We should look at it. But for myself, it's not a good idea. I'm trying to switch to Linux completely and looks like VisualPlace does not have a native image. And also we have to keep the sync with schematic design and VisualPlace design. That is s

Re: [Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-04 Thread Thiadmer Riemersma
With apologies for the shameless plug: we use VisualPlace to manage the pick-&-place files and the bill-of-materials. VisualPlace links to an inventory database for stock and ordering. VisualPlace is developed by us. It is free, but not open source. ___ M

Re: [Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-03 Thread Murat Ursavaş
Yep. It's about optionally placed components and their variant based values. Using a separate application could also do the job but I believe in "one information source", which is in this case the Eeschema file. In Altium you can edit the placement option visually and also edit (or bulk edit) t

Re: [Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
Just as a note, you might be able to handle that in the BOM scripts, which IIRC can read abritrary parameters from the schematic symbols. (I could be wrong). 2015-03-03 23:14 GMT+01:00 Thiadmer Riemersma : > If the idea is to have a single PCB design onto which some components are > optionally pla

Re: [Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-03 Thread Thiadmer Riemersma
If the idea is to have a single PCB design onto which some components are optionally placed, I use a separate application for that. I find that preferable, because the production/assembly phase is a different phase than the schematic/PCB design. (For example, when starting assembly, you quickly nee

Re: [Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Østergaard
All I know about is [1], which is only on the wish/idea level, although it is not exactly the same, but seems related to me. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/961533 2015-03-02 23:10 GMT+01:00 Murat Ursavaş : > Hi, > > I'm new to KiCad development and have some ideas to include into the >

[Kicad-developers] Assembly Variant Management Feature

2015-03-03 Thread Murat Ursavaş
Hi, I'm new to KiCad development and have some ideas to include into the package. The most important one is "Assembly Variant Management", which is missing, AFAIK. Am I right? Is there anybody working on this subject? I've not seen any entry in the mailing list archive. Regards, /// Murat