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[Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm, I think I know where to look for this. I'll check it out later
tonight.

Thanks for the heads up Bernhard!

Jon

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 4:09 PM Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> One minor thing I just found, don’t know if it is intended this way:
>
> I have some IC on my board, most of its connections already routed.
> I swapped one pin of it to a different net in eeschema, exported the
> netlist.
> In pcbnew I imported the netlist (Footprint Selection = Reference,
> Exchange Footprint = Change, everything else = Delete).
> After closing the netlist dialog the IC was in move mode just like if it
> was a new component.
>
> I wouldn’t have expected this, since it is not a new component.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
>
>
> > On 10 Jan 2016, at 22:28, 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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