inches and mm, the industry is crazy enough to force us with mixed
design. For example I routinely use imperial units for track size and
clearance, but drilling is strictly a metric issue...
So I added a little parser to recognize a suffix specification in the
unit text boxes... so you can put in things like:
1in (1 inch)
1" (idem)
25th (25 thou)
25mi (25 mils, the same)
6mm (6 mm, obviously)
The rules are: spaces between the number and the unit are accepted, only
the first two letters are significant.
As a bonus, it also recognize the period (.) as a decimal point
substituting it with the correct locale character (there was a wishlist
for it, IIRC). Most useful for number pad fans :D
inches and mm, the industry is crazy enough to force us with mixed
design. For example I routinely use imperial units for track size and
clearance, but drilling is strictly a metric issue...
So I added a little parser to recognize a suffix specification in the
unit text boxes... so you can put in things like:
1in (1 inch)
1" (idem)
25th (25 thou)
25mi (25 mils, the same)
6mm (6 mm, obviously)
The rules are: spaces between the number and the unit are accepted, only
the first two letters are significant.
As a bonus, it also recognize the period (.) as a decimal point
substituting it with the correct locale character (there was a wishlist
for it, IIRC). Most useful for number pad fans :D
* Continue component library class clean up and encapsulation work.
* Change hierarchical sheet label container to boost::vector_ptr.
* Encapsulate hierarchical label handling in hierarchical sheet class.
* Convert some missed occurrences of wxString::GetData() to GetChars( wxString ).
* Fix some minor code formatting issues.
In netlist generation, changed the rule to calculate netnames of nets with labels:
Previously, named nets (i.e. nets with local, hierarchical or global labels) have their name
defined by the first label found in list.
So net names could be changed without really changing the schematic.
Now the names are calculated from the rules (by priority order) :
1 - use the most top level labels in hierarchies.
2 - use global labels first, local labels next (hidden power pins names are global labels).
3 - use alphabetic sort (so, if GND and AGND are connected, the net will be always named AGND,
and adding a VSS connection cannot change the net name)
So power nets and nets that have more than one label cannot have their netname changed
if there is no actual change relative to these nets names in schematic
In netlist generation, changed the rule to calculate netnames of nets with labels:
Previously, named nets (i.e. nets with local, hierarchical or global labels) have their name
defined by the first label found in list.
So net names could be changed without really changing the schematic.
Now the names are calculated from the rules (by priority order) :
1 - use the most top level labels in hierarchies.
2 - use global labels first, local labels next (hidden power pins names are global labels).
3 - use alphabetic sort (so, if GND and AGND are connected, the net will be always named AGND,
and adding a VSS connection cannot change the net name)
So power nets and nets that have more than one label cannot have their netname changed
if there is no actual change relative to these nets names in schematic
This tool uses potarce library that converts a bitmap picture (.bmp or .pgm format) to a set of polygons.
bitmap2component converts a bitmap to a .emp footprint (that can be imported by modedit) or a .lib component that can be imported by libedit.
See changelog for more info
jean-pierre charras
Dick Hollenbeck
Wayne Stambaugh
jp