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["Alberto Medrano (Gmail)" <ing.ajmv@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Somebody know how to use the "new" cvpcb?.

Some screenshots or tutorial.

Sorry, my English is very poorly.

Alberto Medrano

On 02/26/2014 04:20 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>>> I don't think that the functionality of what cvpcb does now will/should go away
>>> entirely. Having a tabular view of the whole BOM essentially and quickly be able to
>>> review and change the one or other footprint is great and needed, in particular in
>>> the final passes of a project. Though it should not be an external program as it is
>>> now, essentially communicating back and forth with files, which makes the process
>>> tedious and error prone.
>> I should have been more clear.  The functionality will not go away.  The
>> stand alone application will go away.  The CvPcb functionality will be
>> pushed into one of (pcbnew most likely) the shared objects and will be
>> usable from either the schematic editor or the board editor.  I have
>> always found running CvPcb as separate application to associate
>> footprints to be cumbersome.  I would rather assign them when I'm
>> editing the schematic because I almost always know the footprint of the
>> component when I'm designing the circuit.
>
>>> Never said to junk the tabular view. Something like the list views in orcad capture
>>> would actually very useful.
>
> Launching CVPCB now is like giving birth under water.  By the time the child gets its
> lungs full of air, it feels like a brain damaged product.  And the github plugin is taking
> the blame.  Surely everyone understands that if you increase the number of libraries
> sufficiently, you can always eventually come up disappointed in the time it takes to LOAD
> ALL OF THEM BEFORE YOU TAKE YOUR FIRST BREATH OF AIR.
>
> In the kiway branch the initial change is to have pcbnew, footprint viewer, footprint
> editor, and cvpcb all share the same footprint memory cache.   Those benefits won't be
> visible until milestone B) however.  (Milestone A) is still a bunch of individual programs.)
>
>   https://blueprints.launchpad.net/kicad/+spec/modular-kicad
>
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/wiki/Modular-KiCad-with-Alternate-Top-Level-Launchers
>
>
> In concert with, or after milestone B), alternatives fully different than CVPCB become
> possible.  So about the time that the performance is likely to be fixed, the very utility
> of the program is reduced.
>
>
> BTW, I did look into caching in the github plugin.  But what I found was that it took just
> as long to query the age of the repo, as it did to download it again.  So caching in
> github plugin is not a big win.
>
>
> The biggest win is to minimize the number of times you ask the plugin to download 78
> libraries before you can start your work.  That would entail software design at a higher
> level.
>
>
>
> Dick
>
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