Eagle support net labels that are naming wires not directly connected to
the labels. In KiCad it is not possible, therefore such detached net
labels need to be moved, so they touch the corresponding wire.
The initial algorithm did not take into account that a moved net label
might be placed on a wire crossing, effectively shorting two nets. This
commit improves the placement algorithm by avoiding the wire crossing
points when placing a label.
Fixes: lp:1748502
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1748502
While we already cache the loaded footprint files, parsing said files
into the list is also time-intensive. Since the FOOTPRINT_LIST is
already hash-stamped against the current timestamps of the files that
make up the list, sharing a single copy of the list is quite
straight-forward.
With hash character starting the reference value, schematic components
are considered as virtual and therefore netlist updater do not warn about
an unsigned footprint anymore. This approach is useful to handle logos,
frames or other virtual Eagle components.
Fixes: lp:1756281
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1756281
ngSpice frequently ends up a simulation with an error:
"Error: ngspice.dll cannot recover and awaits to be detached"
The only way forward is to reload the shared library and
reinitialize ngSpice.
Fixes: lp:1753101
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1753101
Schematic components have illegal characters replaced during load,
leading to broken component-symbol links. To avoid this, library symbols
should have their names fixed in the same way.
Fixes: lp:1752419
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1752419
Duplicate is handled like move/drag but shouldn't mark the original
items as moving. This prevents a redraw from drawing the original
items.
Fixes: lp:1750083
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1750083
The backup code was designed for a project with all of the schematics
in the project folder which is not always the case. Fix the schematic
backup to keep the schematic folder structure in tact during backups.
Fixes lp:1751662
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1751662
Keep any Eeschema color except background a fraction off of true white
to ensure that BW printing shows the lines as black. Only the
background is allowed to be white in an Eeschema printout.
Fixes: lp:1662859
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1662859
For some reason, when calling python and giving a full filename script, the last separator in the filename
must be '/', not '\'.
Otherwise the import command inside the script does not find files to import in the same folder as the script.
We cannot replace blindly '\' to '/' in command line because it does not work for file on a server (name starting by \\server_name\).
So the fix is just replacing one '\' in python script full filename.
This is not perfect, but at least it works for newly created plugin commands.
Also adds indicators in layers palette for feedback.
Also generates sized images for all indicators instead of using
scaled bitmaps (which didn't look great).
Also fixes a completely unrelated typo in a UI string.
Includes some dialog changes to go with the menu update.
Includes promoting the Pcbnew graphics mode back to main menu.
Includes renaming Graphics modes to Toolsets.
Currently, if a old label already containing a '/' (or a space) is edited, it is accepted,
but no new not allowed char can be added to the label.
(Previously, a sheet pin label was not filtered)
This also makes the dialog modeless so that one switch between
sheets while annotating to choose the base numbers for each
sheet (assuming they don't like the base number we pick because
of the order of the sheets).
Fixes: lp:1154131
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1154131
Also fixes:
- forcing the annotation scope to "full schematic" when run
as a prerequisite to Generate Netlist.
- a long-standing bug where displaying extra items in a dialog
would mess up the height of the HTML_REPORT_PANEL (becasue
we were setting the html window's height rather than its
parent flexgrid.
- initializing the annotation radio buttons to safe values
(full schematic and keep existing)
Fixes: lp:1750062
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1750062
Local net labels are preceded with sheetpath (even for single sheet
schematics it is '/') causing net name conflicts between schematics and
layout. It can be easily avoided by using exclusively global net
labels, at the cost having uglier schematics.
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
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
Maciej Suminski
Jeff Young
Wayne Stambaugh
Jon Evans
Marco Ciampa
jean-pierre charras
Tomasz Wlostowski
Seth Hillbrand
hauptmech
Michael Kavanagh
Russell Oliver
Carsten Schoenert