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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I also created a bug to track this on
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1730249

2017-11-05 23:38 GMT+01:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Jon
>
> Thakn you for your work. I finally got time to just play around a bit more
> in gerbview with GAL :)
>
> I just tested a random gerber file I got from somewhere unknown, but it
> seems there is a slight quick when switching back to GAL from legacy. The
> test file is attached along with some screenshots image.
>
> At some zoom levels some pads dissapear. With this particular file it
> seems to be the thermal pads of the SOIC8 packages. In one instance I also
> saw they turn blue like the layer color for graphic layer 2 presumably.
> Also the pads can't really be selected properly. It seems like gerbview
> thinks those pads are the same... See the clarification menu.
>
> Application: gerbview
> Version: (2017-11-05 <20%2017%2011%2005> revision 1959af1ad)-master,
> debug build
> Libraries:
>     wxWidgets 3.0.3
>     libcurl/7.56.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0f zlib/1.2.11 libpsl/0.18.0 (+libicu/59.1)
> libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.23.1
> Platform: Linux 4.13.7-1-ARCH x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
> Build Info:
>     wxWidgets: 3.0.3 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
>     Boost: 1.65.1
>     Curl: 7.56.0
>     Compiler: GCC 7.2.0 with C++ ABI 1011
>
> Build settings:
>     USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
>     USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>     KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
>     BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>     KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
>     KICAD_SPICE=ON
>
>
> 2017-09-27 <20%2017%2009%2027> 5:36 GMT+02:00 Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >:
>
>> Thanks Oliver!  I have to admit, part of why I took on this project was
>> to learn about the GAL things so that I can be of assistance for the
>> eeschema port :-)
>> I definitely plan to help with that, but I have some other things to work
>> on in the short term (and want to make sure everything is working well for
>> V5 release).
>>
>> Cheers
>> Jon
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Oliver Walters <
>> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Jon,
>>>
>>> The GAL gerber viewer works a treat! It's so fast now!
>>>
>>> Can we expect the same treatment to eeschema? ;)
>>>
>>> Thanks for your work!
>>>
>>>
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