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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been out the last week for a funeral, but I'm making progress on the
kicad-w-scripting-daily PPA.  Until then--

It really isn't hard to compile it yourself.  The instructions here work
pretty well (
http://www.wayneandlayne.com/blog/2010/12/03/how-to-build-kicad-on-ubuntu/)
and you just change two things to get scripting support.

Change the cmake line to:

cmake ../ -DKICAD_TESTING_VERSION=ON \
    -DKICAD_SCRIPTING=ON \
    -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON \
    -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG

My current working list of dependencies for the Ubuntu package is basically
equivalent to

sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libglu1-mesa-dev
libgl1-mesa-dev mesa-common-dev libwxbase2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev cmake
python-wxgtk2.8 swig bzr doxygen

Adam Wolf
Wayne and Layne, LLC


On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Senthil Seveelavanan <
s.seveelavanan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In the absence of known compiled 'Kicad with scripting', and current
> project on the go I have dug into scripting/hacking the file directly. My
> circuit has 50 identical modules within the pcb (but sharing common
> components so I can't just design the circuit once make 50x).
>
> By parsing the new .kicad_pcb file directly I can successfully get/set
> the position/rotation of any module (using its fp_text reference):
>
> (module LUXEON_REBEL_COOLPAD   locked (layer Layer0) (tedit 515EAFE6)
> (tstamp 512A9571)
>     (at 369.89766 234.99826)
>     (path /51225974/511E3F14/51192821)
>     (fp_text reference D7001 (at 7.112 4.699) (layer F.SilkS)
>
>
> But scripting nets/tracks is driving me crazy!:
>
> (segment (start 122.9474 228.74) (end 122.795 228.8924) (width 0.2032)
> (layer Layer0) (net 51))
>
> My goal is to draw tracks in kicad for one of my 50 identical modules, and
> then 'copy' the tracks. The would be done using the said script, which
> would create new segments, and applying an offset for the x&y values. This
> works to a point,
> I can get/set the position of segment(track) and also changing its net
> numer appropriately .. and it works SOMETIMES.
>
> From looking at the .kicad_pcb files generated when saving from pcb_new it
> seems like there are added 'status' and/or 'tstamp' flags added at
> different times for unknown reasons - I assume that it is these flags that
> is causing the my segment/track hack to fail sometimes and work other
> times. By fail, when the file is loaded there is just a blank screen.
>
> How can I make it work at all? If I delete all these (extra?) flags will
> it work... help!! I have been trying this for couple of days now, making
> different test files and comparing the differences etc, in order work out
> why it works in some instance and fails in other, and why certain tags are
> only applied to certain segments etc etc help help!
>
> Any help gratefully appreciated
>
> Senthil
>
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