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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tomasz,

This sounds awesome.  This will make routing to PCB antennas much nicer!

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer,
Wayne and Layne, LLC

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski <
tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We are planning to introduce some improvements to the P&S router before
> the first lightweight stable release of Kicad comes out. Here's are the
> things we'd like to get done by the end of November:
>
> 1) Length tuning tool
>
> An automatic tool generating "accordions"/"meanders" on a chosen trace to
> match the given length. The first version of the tool will simply let you
> choose the pads and the required electrical distance between them. We may
> do the same for diff pairs if time permits.
>
> 2) Diff pair router
>
> An extension to the P&S allowing to route both traces of a pair with a
> constrained gap between and adding vias at appropriate spacing. For the
> first version we aim to input the gaps/spacings by hand, later on we will
> probably add such the possibility of adding such constraints on the
> schematic, but this depends on the eeschema schedule.
>
> 3) On-line length measurement - display a fly-over window with the
> length/skew of the currently routed trace/diff pair.
>
> 4) Some optimizations/improvements/bugfixes
> - springback on via dragging
> - optimizer improvements (better acute/right angle removal, tighter
> routing)
> - improved layer switching
> - optimizations to the P&S storage model
> - support for non-orthogonal pads
>
> If there's any particular stuff you'd like to ask for or discuss, don't
> hesitate to tell us!
>
> Most of these changes are internal to the P&S code only and don't affect
> other Kicad components.
>
> I'd also like to add support for arcs on copper layers (for efficient
> representation of miters/meanders). Contrary to the current graphical arc
> object, I'd propose to approximate them using line segments (and store as
> such approximations) so that there's no need to add full arc support (for
> plotter/DRC/etc). What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
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