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Re: Need feedback on new way of pcbnew importing footprints

 

Finally gave this a spin, and wow! So much better. Thank you Jon!

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Patch committed in 6439. I like this a lot, it doesn't seem to break
> anything*, and it's fairly minimal in reach. Thank you!
>
> *I also can't see any possible way it could have caused the reported
> library issue, that's surely unrelated.
>
> --
> Chris
>
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 09:10:04PM +0000, Jon Neal wrote:
> > here is the patch:
> >
> https://github.com/reportingsjr/kicad-source-mirror/commit/dd96d250321b17e0f8691d5623ea202f8762023c.patch
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:03 PM Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > If no one has any complaints or suggestions then this patch is ready
> to be
> > > included.
> > >
> > > I can generate a git diff with commit, author etc if needed, just let
> me
> > > know.
> > >
> > > Also, I accidentally sent this to Maciej only earlier:
> > > Simon Richter mentioned that doing a swap was a cleaner method of
> doing it
> > > for a variety of reasons. It doesn't really have to be done that way,
> just
> > > following his advice.
> > >
> > > Jon
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:55 AM Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> > On Jan 4, 2016, at 6:59 PM, Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > I asked about this a while back and got a little bit of feedback, I
> now
> > >> have a patch for people to try.
> > >> >
> > >> > What this does is when you import a netlist (in GAL only though) it
> > >> automatically spreads out all newly added footprints and it places
> them all
> > >> in "selection + move" mode. So basically you import, close the import
> > >> window, and immediately click wherever to plonk down the new
> footprints.
> > >> >
> > >> > I want to know if people like this method of importing (I think it
> is
> > >> nicer than piling all of the footprints on top of each other
> wherever).
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> YES!
> > >>
> > >> -a
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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