← Back to team overview

kicad-developers team mailing list archive

Re: [PATCH] DRC: Add an optional mode to report all track errors

 

Do we really want a user preference for this? From first blush I'd think it should report all errors all the time.  (And the fact that it doesn’t strikes me as enough of a bug to want it fixed for 5.0.)

I think both Seth’s performance ideas are worth pursuing, but probably in 6.0….

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 20 Mar 2018, at 03:38, Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jon-
> 
> I don't see anything inherently problematic here.  Works as advertised and seems to be minimally invasive.
> 
> I suspect that your primary speed bump is the BOARD_COMMIT being called on each segment error marker.  You might get bang for the buck by conditionally starting a BOARD_COMMIT at the beginning of DoTrackDRC in the case where you are reporting all errors and commit.add the markers rather than calling addMarkerToPcb().  Then push at the end of the function.  Also, do we need to create undo entries for the DRC markers?  I suspect not but I could be overlooking something.
> 
> All that said, this is a useful addition and definitely speeds up error resolution on problematic boards.  
> 
> -S
> 
> 2018-03-19 19:58 GMT-07:00 Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>:
> I'd like some eyes on this before I push it, since it's a rather significant change.
> 
> I have added a (disabled by default) option to report all DRC issues on each tested track.  The current behavior is to stop at the first error, which means that the only way to get a full DRC report is to fix errors one by one.
> 
> See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1754442 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1754442>
> 
> I tried to make this change as minimal as possible because I know the DRC code is a target for refactoring after 5.0.  The performance of the current system is not great, and I can think of several optimizations that would help a lot, but I think they would touch too much to be a part of 5.0.  Fortunately there is progress reporting on this step, so at least users will have feedback.
> 
> -Jon
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>
> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp


Follow ups

References