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Re: New BOARD File Format (*.kicad_pcb)

 

Sorry, I'm an idiot! It was indeed that I was running an old version. I
compiled and didn't install!

I have re-saved the updated template with the new version (BZR 3869) and
attached it.

Sorry for the noise!

md5sum of the attached:

9e47deffc6b6c1f83f3a69144f4a4be2 *raspberrypi-gpio.tar.bz2

Best Regards, Brian.


On 29 December 2012 14:18, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Two things:
>
> *) JP did fix an issue wrt regex pattern matching on file extension
> recently.
>
> *) there was a bug in kicadpcb format loading, that was only recently
> fixed.  If you loaded that board type and saved it, your board file thru
> hole pads were damaged.  No longer a concern with very new pcbnew. Fix was
> in a commit I made recently, could check the log to get exact version at
> which fix came in.
>
> Suggest using newest pcbnew testing, and converting, ie save as, again.
>
> On Dec 29, 2012 7:04 AM, "jp charras" <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Le 28/12/2012 13:08, Brian Sidebotham a écrit :
> >>
> >> Hi Guys,
> >>
> >> Excellent work! Sorry it's taken me so long to respond!
> >>
> >> I have updated the Rapsberry-Pi template to the new kicad_pcb
> s-expression format but I have an issue.
> >>
> >> I started a new project based on the old template, and I've made some
> changes (Marked some low height areas and what-not which aid layout). Then
> I used Save-As in PCBNEW to save in the .kicad_pcb format - this file looks
> good, and I deleted the .brd file. Now though, the .kicad_pcb file doesn't
> show in the project tree. KiCad also doesn't try and open the .kicad_pcb
> file either, it warns me that the .brd file doesn't exist yet.
> >>
> >> Is there something I've done wrong? Sorry I've not been keeping up with
> the list for a month or so, so I may have missed something obvious.
> >>
> >> The board does get loaded correctly if I select the correct filetype
> and load it with PCBNEW. Here is my PCBNEW version information:
> >>
> >> Application: Pcbnew
> >> Version: (2012-11-30 BZR 3829)-testing
> >>
> > I am thinking your Kicad version is too old.
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> >
> >
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