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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Mark,

Will do.  This will give us a chance to better understand how to even
map this over to KiCad.  I'm still no sure I even understand what is
meant by netclass to netclass clearance.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 1/14/2019 11:42 AM, mdoesbur@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello Wayne,
> 
> Please consider it on hold for now. Once kicad supports netclass to
> netclass clearances I will have another look. The dimensions are not
> copied yet, since I stopped working on it once I found out that all
> the unnamed nets lost their netclass after the first update from the
> schematic. This may be easy to fix or not, but at that point I decided
> to simply forget it.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Mark
> 
> Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 	Hey Mark,
> 
> 	On 1/11/2019 5:11 AM, mdoesbur@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 	> Here's a patch to import the netclasses from eagle.
> 
> 	There are a few minor coding policy issues.  We now have clang
> 	formatting available when you perform a git commit if you would prefer
> 	not to have to remember KiCad's formatting.  You just have to enable it
> 	in your git repo if that is your preference.
> 
> 	It looks like there is some left over debugging code (using std::cerr)
> 	that needs to be removed.  If you want leave debugging support in your
> 	code, please use wxLogTrace[1].
> 
> 	I looks like you are translating Eagle units directly to kicad's pcb
> 	units.  Is this valid?  I don't know what internal units Eagle uses for
> 	boards but KiCad uses 1nm.  If Eagle doesn't use 1nm, then your unit
> 	conversions are wrong.
> 
> 	> 
> 	> As already mentioned, all nets without a label are in the default
> 	> netclass. The clearances are ignored because I have no idea what clearance
> 	> to use. The trackwidths are ignored, I've never used that and saw no
> 	> reason to fix this since the patch isn't that usefull anyway.
> 
> 	Does Eagle specify a default net clearance?  If so, we should be using
> 	that instead of the KiCad default net clearance for the nets not
> 	assigned to a netclass.
> 
> 	Would our resident Eagle file format expert please take a look at this
> 	patch to see if it makes sense?  I'm not terribly familiar with the
> 	Eagle file format.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Wayne
> 
> 	[1]:
> 	https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0/group__group__funcmacro__log.html#gae28a46b220921cd87a6f75f0842294c5
> 
> 	> 
> 	> regards,
> 	> 
> 	> Mark.
> 	> 
> 	> Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 	> 
> 	> 	<div dir='auto'>Hi Mark-<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That would be great, thanks!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Seth</div></div>
> 	> 
> 	> 
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