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[Moses O McKnight <moses@...>]

Hi Dick,

Yes, I'm doing this for panelization.

I don't know how it worked before because this is the first time I tried
it.

I expected it to import the board into the current file, without
changing the file name, or current file settings.

I'm not sure that the component not moving had anything to do with with
trying to append the boards. It would work sometimes but not work most
of the time. I haven't tried the same operation on the original board
yet.

I think I see several other bugs as well and maybe some ideas for
improvement. One thing is that pcbnew seems to lose the track and via
sizes randomly. Sometimes they will be there when you open pcbnew up
and then later they will be gone (they don't come back either). I
haven't had them vanish during a session though. My idea is that maybe
one could define a list of track and via sizes that would stay with the
file until you changed them on purpose. And maybe have via hole sizes
for each via size.

Another idea is to either change the net names when you append a board
so there are no nets connected between boards, or make each board be its
own object so we could re-read a netlist for each board.

I'll be looking at the source code and trying to see if I can find out
how things work so I can help work on some things if I get time. Any
pointers as to how the code is structured would be great!

Thanks,
Moses

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:03 -0700, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> 
> I can probably look at this next week earliest. If you want that then
> please send me a personal email and tell me how you expect it to work
> along with the two board files. 
> 
> 1) Is the purpose of appending a board for panelizing?
> 
> 2) Was this once working correctly and is now not? If yes,
> approximately when did it get broken?
> 
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/16/08, Moses O McKnight <moses@...> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the latest svn version of kicad I compiled myself
> with
> wxwidgets 2.8.8 on Ubuntu Linux.
> 
> I'm having all kinds of problems trying to append boards into
> one board
> file.
> 
> 1. One component on one of the boards will not move most of
> the time
> when I move the rest of the board with a block move.
> 2. Every time I append a board it changes the size to that of
> the board
> I'm appending.
> 3. When I append a board it changes the name of the board
> file to
> noname.brd, even if I've created a new blank board and saved
> it first to
> append the other boards into.
> It seems there were some other problems as well but I can't
> remember
> them right now.
> 
> Is there something I can do to fix this? Anyone else have
> these
> problems?
> 
> Thanks,
> Moses
> 
> 
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