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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/12/2013 6:15 PM, JESSICH Jasmin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This is my first message to this list, so let me introduce myself.
> 
> I live in Vienna, Austria, so please be lenient with my English.
> I am a SW developer since 24 years. I am working in the telecommunication
> area since my first contact with SW. In the beginning assembler and then in
> C/C++.
> Currently my daily business is Kernel driver developing and I did the design and
> implementation of the communication protocol of our system. The latter in C++.
> And yes, I am a girl and maybe the first girl in the team, when I look to all the
> team names ;)

Jasmin,

Welcome to the KiCad developers team and thank you for your interest in
helping the project.  As far as I know, you are indeed the first female
developer to join the mailing list.  You have some very impressive
experience.  Hopefully we can put that experience to good use.

Best Regards,

Wayne

> 
> I am completely new to KiCAD, but I want to add some features, which I thing
> are missing. I know Autocad Inventor and a little bit of Eagle.
> And why I am starting with the module editor although I have no practice with
> KiCAD or board development? Because I work on diving equipment in my
> spare time and need a PCB. So I needed an EDA tool. I selected KiCAD, because
> it is the best Open Source tool and I like the Open Source thought. During my
> first tests I came quickly to the point to dram a new part and so I found some
> missing issues in the module editor.
> 
> I started to compile the testing version and was surprised with new things. I
> liked the new feature to show the solder mask and other layers in the module
> editor in the 3D Viewer. 
> 
> The problem:
> I wonder why the solder mask was so big. It was illogical for me that the size
> wasn't changed with the settings dialog. Moreover, after setting them and
> program restart, the size was still the same (default).
> So I tracked it down to the design settings and here to m_SolderMaskMargin,
> which is initialized with its default in any case.
> The default comes from moduleframe.cpp/181, where a new board is allocated.
> 
> Is there any reason, why it doesn't use the settings from the current board?
> Once the module editor board is allocated, it uses always the same empty
> board. This means the values are never changed.
> 
> Any hint if I shall try to add this feature and how would be the best way to do
> it? I mean, how the core developers would like to see this implemented.
> 
> BR
>    Jasmin
> 
> 
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