After Eagle project import, schematic and board netlists are inconsistent:
footprints do not have sheetpaths assigned, schematics are unannotated.
One can update netlist either by references or timestamps, but timestamps
are empty in pcbnew, and updating by reference must by preceded by
annotation which may lead to broken links between board and schematics
(Eagle does not require references to end with a number, so KiCad annotater
will add numbers in such cases).
To fix the problem, there is a two step netlist update:
- update by reference without the annotation step, to assign
correct sheetpaths to footprints
- update by timestamp, after symbols are annotated, in order to
update references in the board
Fixes: lp:1748502
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1748502
Board update KiWay request may now contain options in the message
payload:
- "no-annotate": do not enforce annotation
- "quiet-annotate": annotate without displaying a dialog
- "by-reference": update netlist by reference, no dialog displayed
- "by-timestamp": update netlist by timestamp, no dialog displayed
Git is always used to generate the KiCad version string using the
command `git describe --dirty`. This gives a more concise and
accurate version string than the previous method. When git is not
available, the version string defaults to the value defined in
KiCadVersion.cmake. It is imperative that moving forward that the
default version string be updated the commit following a git tag
so that when git is not available, the last known commit following
a git tag will at least give some usable information about which
development branch of KiCad was used for a build.
Sheet file name paths were not being saved and restored properly under
certain conditions when walking the sheet hierarchy causing schematic
load errors.
Changed debugging output to use wxLogTrace left over from last fix.
Fixes lp:1748401
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1748401
Deleting lines can create new ones when old lines are merged as the
result of a delete operation. This checks that all items inside a
selection block are deleted before finishing.
Fixes: lp:1748907
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1748907
Footprint properties dialogs: add test for negative net clearance, similar to the Pad properties dialog test.
Add also a info message in dialogs, to avoid mistakes when setting the local clearances.
Track dragging forces the cursor position, which is still kept when PNS
router is launched again. It is avoided by resetting the force cursor
position option before running the event loop.
Tools preserve their state between runs, so it could happen that
activating a tool restores the state when autopanning is enabled, even
though it should not be.
All calls to {save,apply}ViewControls() have been replaced with a new
method: setActiveState(). The advantage is that setActiveState() always
saves view controls settings to the tool that set them. As long
as setActiveState() is called every time there is a tool context
switch, the changes are kept up-to-date.
Fixes: lp:1748613
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1748613
Fixes a bunch of errors:
- libedit and libbrowser would zoom to bounding box but centre on canvas
- libedit, libbrowser and gerbview didn’t take the scroll bars into account
- pcbnew didn’t take scroll bars into account or apply the 10% margin
- appending a board file would re-centre, but not re-zoom
Fixes: lp:1504302
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1504302
jean-pierre charras
Maciej Suminski
Robbert Lagerweij
Wayne Stambaugh
Jeff Young
Michael
Michael Geselbracht
Seth Hillbrand
Russell Oliver