Re: [Kicad-developers] my recent experiments with KiCad

2011-03-17 Thread Dick Hollenbeck
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Re: [Kicad-developers] my recent experiments with KiCad

2011-03-17 Thread Nils Hesse
One thing I would love to see is the possibility of displaying a vector graphic (e.g. DXF) under the pcb in pcbnew. With this given I could display a picture of the case which will be holding the pcb. This would ease the process of creating mounting-holes and an outline fitting into the case. Nil

Re: [Kicad-developers] my recent experiments with KiCad

2011-03-17 Thread Vesa Solonen
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: On 3/14/2011 10:16 PM, Clive Nicolson wrote: ii) auto routing of a schematic. I would think most people would generate the schematic first and then duplicating the PCB layout. Some kind of crude push and shove plus automatic clearances for wires

Re: [Kicad-developers] my recent experiments with KiCad

2011-03-17 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 3/14/2011 10:16 PM, Clive Nicolson wrote: > A few months ago I had a need to reverse engineer a legacy pcb for which all I > had was the pcb board. > > I looked around for a tool to help me with this and could only find > Deltasoft's > CBR 5.0, then I discovered kiCad ... > > I modified pcbne

Re: [Kicad-developers] my recent experiments with KiCad

2011-03-15 Thread Vesa Solonen
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Clive Nicolson wrote: Any interest in this technology? Wonderfull stuff! I hope you'll find time to get all that in shape for inclusion to main line KiCad. It may help a lot to set up a branch for your own version of KiCad on launcpad. I'm ready to compile the code as s