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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
Le 05/11/2017 à 11:48, Oliver Walters a écrit :
> How best to store the layer information then? The way I was doing it previously was:
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> - F.Cu
> - *.Inner.Cu
> - B.Cu
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> Is this sufficient?
Yes, this is sufficient, when a keepout is inside a footprint.
The issue was the fact *.Inner.Cu information was lost with a 2 layers board, when saving this
board, or exporting to the fp editor.
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> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 9:41 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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> Le 05/11/2017 à 11:12, Oliver Walters a écrit :
> > JP,
> >
> > Did you have any other things you want me to address here?
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> > Cheers,
> > Oliver
> >
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> Yes: I did not make a lot of tests, but I found some issues (tested on W7 32 bits):
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> First, Pcbnew crashed after editing (after adding a keepout) a footprint on a board in this case:
> - select and edit a footprint (Ctrl+E) in fp editor: just add a keepout, and save it on the board.
> - then reselect and edit this footprint a second time in fp editor: Pcbnew crashes.
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> Other issues in fp editor:
> - modifying a keepout cannot be undone.
> - The keepout layers are no selectable: I am thinking the options: Top layer, bottom layer and
> internal layers (existing in the first version) is really better.
> Just this is the way these layers are managed in board editor and stored in file that was not good
> (especially when a board has only 2 layers: the internal layers setting was lost).
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> As a side effect: the look of the keepout layer dialog is not very good after resized:
> - Create a keepout on a board: the dialog shows the layers list.
> - After that, create a keepout in the fpeditor: the layers list is not shown, but its area exists,
> and the look of the dialog is not good.
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>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
Follow ups
References
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[FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: Oliver Walters, 2017-10-11
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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: Oliver Walters, 2017-10-14
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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: jp charras, 2017-10-16
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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: Oliver Walters, 2017-10-16
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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: Oliver Walters, 2017-10-16
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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: jp charras, 2017-10-18
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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: Oliver Walters, 2017-10-18
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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: jp charras, 2017-11-01
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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: Oliver Walters, 2017-11-01
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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: jp charras, 2017-11-01
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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: Oliver Walters, 2017-11-01
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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: Oliver Walters, 2017-11-05
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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: jp charras, 2017-11-05
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Re: [FEATURE] Add keepout areas in footprints
From: Oliver Walters, 2017-11-05