kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I was confused on many fronts.

It’s not really a project file (in terms of something that is read when you open the project).  It’s easier to think of it as a settings file, which happens to have a “.pro” extension.

As such, the Save / Load are really more Export / Import (which also explains why they bring up file dialogs when the current project is known).

And you can use Load Settings to import settings from a settings file to the current board/schematic/whatever.

We should probably move these to the Import / Export submenus for 6.0.

Cheers,
Jeff.



> On 3 Jun 2018, at 15:20, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Le 03/06/2018 à 15:40, Jeff Young a écrit :
>> We store some of the board settings (such as line widths, text sizes, etc.) in the project file.
>> 
>> Except that creating a new project, or a new board, doesn’t appear to use them (falling back to default values instead).
>> 
>> The only way I can get them updated is via Preferences > Save Project Settings, but since nothing appears to use them I’m not sure what value that is.
>> 
>> What am I missing?
> 
> 
> The purpose of storing line widths, text sizes, etc. in the project file is only to have a way to
> define default values by the user (from the template) when creating a new project or a new board.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 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