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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm pretty sure I've commented on this before but I'll weigh in again.
My goal is to create a configurable plot manager for pcbnew (and
eventually eeschema) that meets the following criteria:

* Plot any combination of available plot outputs.
* Configurable per plot type file extensions and/or file name suffixes
(maybe prefixes as well).
* Configurable per plot type paths.
* Plot configuration would be some type of plain text config file that
would be portable between projects.
* Some type of default template system similar to the default kicad.pro.
* Possibly callable from the command line `pcbnew --plot /project.pro`.

It would be easy enough to zip some or all of these files as part of the
configuration.  When I would actually have time to work on such a
feature is anybody's guess.  I would rather we not implement parts of
this in an adhoc manner that requires a bunch of refactoring when we get
time to implement it properly.

Wayne

On 7/31/2018 12:25 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> It would be nice if this were more formally supported instead of just
> being a thing that people figure out how to do :)  Python scripting is
> certainly one way.
> Altium has this capability -- they don't use a real script like Python,
> but more of a configuration file.
> But the key point is that it is often different for each project, so you
> want a nice way to take each script and customize it for the given PCB
> project, and then check it in with version control alongside the other
> design files.
> For example, you might have a "standard" output generation script, but
> then for a certain design you tweak it to turn off certain layers or to
> name the files a certain way.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 12:23 PM Adam Wolf
> <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> wrote:
> 
>     I actually worked with the OSHPark folks to do this for KiCad back in
>     the V4 days so they could accept .kicad_pcb files.
>     On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 11:20 AM jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Le 31/07/2018 à 16:52, Jon Evans a écrit :
>     > > It would be nice to have a fully-scriptable "output job" system
>     so that you can save all the Gerber
>     > > generation settings, all the drill generation settings, etc
>     together, and set up a workflow of
>     > > generating files, naming them a certain way, packaging them in a
>     ZIP, etc.
>     >
>     > It could be made by a Python script.
>     > Attached a basic python script to create gerber and drill files
>     from a board file.
>     >
>     > Some latest options (creating a job file or a drill file in gerber
>     format) are not available for
>     > python scripts, but it should be easy (famous words) to add them
>     to the Python scripting stuff.
>     >
>     > >
>     > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:24 AM Ben Hest <bombledmonk@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:bombledmonk@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:bombledmonk@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:bombledmonk@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     > >
>     > >     I'd give that a thumbs up from as a single user's opinion.
>     > >
>     > >     On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 8:58 AM Adam Wolf
>     <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     > >     <mailto:adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     > >
>     > >         100% percent of the time when I make drill files, I also
>     want to make
>     > >         gerbers, and I want a zip file for uploading as well.
>     > >
>     > >         Is there any interest in adding some way to do this
>     automatically?  It
>     > >         may be a little tricky since drills and Gerbers are two
>     different
>     > >         windows, but if this is considered a bad idea I will
>     just stop
>     > >         thinking about it now.
>     > >
>     > >         Adam
>     >
>     > --
>     > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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