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[Paulo Henrique Silva <ph.silva@xxxxxxxxx>]

PTT,

I am looking to add plot support. It is something I use often.

What do you think of add this project to an external repository to let
people contribute and when you release "stable/good" version we ask KiCad
folks to integrate those releases.

Cheers,

2015-01-07 16:42 GMT-02:00 PTT <ptt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I do intend to update and improve the parts that I use, though that won't
> cover all use cases so I hope other people will extend it too.
>
> Thanks for the remarks about formatting, I totally agree, that's updated
> now.
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> On 1/7/2015 8:33 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>> > On 07.01.2015 11:36, PTT wrote:
>> >> Dear all,
>> >> First of all thanks for all the good work, I recently switched to KiCAD
>> >> because of the added scripting support which I needed for scripted
>> button
>> >> placement on a pcb.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Hi Piers,
>> >
>> > Very nice work, thanks! IMHO C++ APIs SWIGgged directly to python are
>> > rather big and inelegant and such a wrapper makes writing scripts much
>> > easier!
>> >
>> > Are you intending to continue working on your wrapper? I vote for
>> > including it in future Kicad releases along with some examples. Miguel,
>> > Wayne - would you agree?
>>
>> I think it's a good idea for developers who don't want to wade into all
>> of the swigged objects.  If Piers (or someone else) intends to maintain
>> it then we can add it as part of the python scripting installation.  If
>> not, then we can add it to the pcbnew/scripting/examples folder for user
>> convenience.
>>
>> If I do add it the formatting issues will have to be addressed.  Tabs
>> are forbidden in all KiCad source code so you have to convert them to 4
>> spaces.  The trailing white space will also have to be cleaned up.
>> Although not strictly enforce, it is preferred that line lengths be
>> limited to 100 characters.  I also see some formatting inconsistencies
>> in functions with multiple arguments.  Some times there is a space after
>> the comma and sometimes there isn't so that should be addressed as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Tom
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> To make it easier to get my work done I made some convenience
>> functions and
>> >> classes wrapping the swig api to have a cleaner interface.
>> >>
>> >> Please have a look and see if it is useful to somehow incorporate it
>> in the
>> >> main branch.
>> >>
>> >> pcbnew_easy.py
>> >> https://gist.github.com/pierstitus/7be2d9923da502c88ff1
>> >>
>> >> There is a simple usage example, to run put the file on your path, (or
>> add
>> >> the path with sys.path.append("...path_to_file..."))
>> >> open the pcbnew console and enter
>> >>>>> import pcbnew_easy
>> >>>>> pcbnew_easy.test()
>> >> (the screen is only updating on moving)
>> >>
>> >> Piers
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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