This feature is very useful for electronics hobbyists who use DIY PCB technology
(both toner transfer and photoresist methods).
Also width correction may be useful for PCB designers who take care of track width etching.
This patch also fixes some minor PS plotting issues.
soldermask. Nevertheless, it would be nice to have proper gerbers to
begin with, i.e., gerbers with no silkscreen in soldermaskless areas.
Of course, most of the problem can be taken care of by drawing the
footprints properly. However, sometimes the silkscreen of one
footprint ends up on the pads of another one (think components under a
so-dimm card, for example). The attached patch adds an option to
subtract the soldermask from the silkscreen when doing gerber output.
marco
* Break classes_body_item.cpp(.h) into more reasonable size bites.
* Rename classes_body_item.cpp(.h) to lib_draw_item.cpp(.h)
* Fix some unsatisfied header file dependencies.
* Add stubs to component library draw item base classe to handle editing
internally.
* Lots of code cleaning.
Pcbnew: Fixed an issue in GERBER file creation, under Vista and W7 only for non administrator users
Plot files were 0 byte length.
This was due to use of function tmpfile() in a GERBER function to create a temporary file that seems not working using mingw.
Replaced by more usual files functions.
* Library component draw items now stored in Boost ptr_vector.
* Updated draw item object comparison to include greater and less than condition.
* Moved set parts per package code from component edit dialog to component object.
* Moved set alternate body style code from component edit dialog to component object.
* Tweaked component library file draw item sort order for improved file readability.
* Documented component object draw item sort ordering.
* Moved plot code to the appropriate library component and draw item objects.
* Fixed compiler type conversion warning in plot_common.h.
Dick Hollenbeck
Александр Закамалдин
Wayne Stambaugh
jean-pierre charras
Marco Mattila
charras