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[Chris Gammell <chris.gammell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everyone,

*(tried sending this once but saw on the archive that it didn't go through)*

I'm pretty quiet on this list since I have zero ability to talk about the
actual development. The future roadmap stuff seems relevant though. After
chatting with the team at FOSDEM and Javier mentioning the idea of
targeting KiCad towards small and medium businesses, I've been gathering up
a group of people who are regularly using KiCad to design and manufacture
boards (currently 40+ on the list)

I am currently surveying that group and will be returning with some
recommendations. I'm also asking if they would be interested in telling
their stories to the development team when asked as part of the survey.

If there are others on the list that are doing manufacturing, please feel
free to join here: http://kicad.info/manufacturing/ (it should prompt you
with the survey upon joining the list)

~Chris Gammell

(I run the KiCad.info forum <https://forum.kicad.info/>, which you're also
invited to join if you're not already on there! Devs get special badges!
:-D)


On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 12:49 PM Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Mar 7, 2018, at 11:46 AM, Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > You should take a look at Mitja Nemec's action plugin here:
> https://github.com/MitjaNemec/Kicad_action_plugins
> >
> > I think the replicate layout covers a lot of the functionality you are
> looking for.
>
> Wow, yeah, I will try that!
>
> > -S
> >
> > 2018-03-07 10:25 GMT-08:00 Andrey Kuznetsov <kandrey89@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Not sure how you would turn this into an effortless feature, but a few
> months ago I’ve designed just that, replicated channels using the same
> subsheet, on layout I did it once, then copy pasted and manually renamed
> each component based on each channel number component.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:42 AM Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mar 5, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Since my day job involves a lot of engineering planning/timelines/etc,
> I've had this rolling around in my head...
> > > I started brainstorming some proposed changes to the roadmaps.
> > >
> > > I am using Google drive because that's what is easiest for me to play
> with; I'm happy to send patches against the official roadmaps if get some
> buy-in for this.
> > >
> > > Feel free to comment (either directly on the doc or by email) with
> thoughts on this.
> > >
> > >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mpxqvxLv497cyfk8KTQijhySSpFxF7ooTtcT_HU86kw/edit#
> > >
> > > Basically what I am proposing is to put most of the energy into
> Eeschema for 6.0, with changes to other parts of the software basically
> being "whatever people have time left over for".  Everything else has been
> bumped to 7.0
> >
> > I’ll add one more to the list, clearly it’s a v7 wish … layout “rooms,”
> like the Altium feature. Consider a multi-channel design where you have to
> replicate a layout several times. It would be nice to define the channel
> in, say, a hierarchical subsheet, and the layout knows that it should
> replicate the work you do for one channel across the others.
> >
> > I realize that this is a completely non-trivial thing to implement, and
> further I recall some discussion about this but nobody had any real good
> ideas about how to do it.
> >
> > -a
> >
>
>
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