This avoids forcing the field to the footprint name in the
library editor, which gets in the way. This doesn't specifically
inhibit the use of the field, and doesn't interfere with fields
users may have set manually (it can be cleared manually if
wished).
Removing the footprint field entirely either from all footprints
or from footprints in fpedit is quite a bit more invasive to
existing designs.
Relates-To: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/17998
This can be useful when managing auxiliary fields.
This is only for the 8.0 branch, as LIB_FIELD is merged
with SCH_FIELD in 8.99, so this is already handled.
The DRC annular ring width test failed to take into account that a pad
could be contained inside another pad having the same number (thermal
vias for example) which changes the effective annular width of the pad
contained within another pad. A test was added to calculate the effective
annular ring width in this case.
Added some PNS log viewer helper and test code to the PNS playground QA
utility for testing the effective pad annular width code.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/17485
(cherry picked from commit a508f2e716)
When using subsheets with nets that end in the same netname, it can be
confusing in pcbnew to know which net you are dealing with. In these
cases, we show the full netname including path to assist when routing
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/16187
(cherry picked from commit b346cde30b)
Defer telling the statement about the connection until the
try block, because otherwise it can connect immediately and
potentially throw an exception if the connection fails.
We also need to consider electrical type as an exact hit when we are
showing it. Otherwise, we get the pin added to our consideration list
but not selected without hitting close neighbors
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/16183
(cherry picked from commit 3620887a22)
Placing a limit on the number of values that a field is allowed to hold
makes it blank when we set more than this number. There's not a good
reason to limit the number of digits we allow at the field level (we
round to 4 decimal points in the backend)
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/17473
(cherry picked from commit cb71f2f207)
(And we already filter all mandatory fields in
pasteFootprintItemsToFootprintEditor() anyway.)
Also, don't nuke a footprint which contains only fields
during a paste.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/17937
(cherry picked from commit eb13dec265)
If we are renaming a sheet that exists only once in the schematic, then
we don't need to warn about case sensitivity. If the sheet exists
multiple times, we do. We can't check this using SCREENS because the
screens don't maintain full state information about where they are used.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/17901
(cherry picked from commit ba4974749c)
When editing the board, footprint fields _look_ like text items, so copy
and paste of these items should logically result in a text item, not a
footprint copy.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/17937
(cherry picked from commit 71b020eb14)
Circles only use one dimension and we tend to ignore the other in our UI
but it is kept and reflects the previous second dimensional value. When
checking DRC, we should only be concerned with the single value used
unless the pad has two dimensions
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/17944
(cherry picked from commit e3d2f338de)
The comparison function was failing to properly
de-duplicate by LIB_ID, especially for parts
from database libraries, causing the list to grow
with the size of the design.
John Beard
Jeff Young
Mark Roszko
Wayne Stambaugh
Seth Hillbrand
Alex Shvartzkop
Jon Evans
Mike Williams
jean-pierre charras