Recommendation is to avoid using the year nomenclature as this
information is already encoded in the git repo. Avoids needing to
repeatly update.
Also updates AUTHORS.txt from current repo with contributor names
ADDED: Add support in Pcbnew for exporting ODB++ files under Fabrication
Outputs, base on ODB++Design Format Specification (Release v8.1
Update 3 February 2021).
Note: There is still a lot of work to do if we will make the feature as
complete as the ODB++ spec. However, the current functionality's
completeness is already sufficient to cover general production
scenarios. I have compared the output results with Gerber files by
DFM tool and the accuracy at the graphic level should be able to
cover most usage scenarios. Additionally, I am very grateful to
the great open-source project Horizon EDA for giving me a lot of
inspiration in terms of ideas.
The feature can be enabled by adding "EnableODB=1" to the kicad_advanced
configuration file.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2019
Schematics, symbols, boards and footprints all get the ability to store
files inside their file structures. File lookups now have a
kicad-embed:// URI to allow various parts of KiCad to refer to files
stored in this manner.
kicad-embed://datasheet.pdf references the file named "datasheet.pdf"
embedded in the document. Embeds are allowed in schematics, boards,
symbols and footprints. Currently supported embeddings are Datasheets,
3D Models and drawingsheets
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/6918
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2376
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/17827
Also changes the redraw behaviour to not try and redraw
only when things entered the view (this didn't work
because it may be the netname that's entering the view,
not the whole track). Instead we only process a finite
number of tracks on each idle event (in order to avoid
#12436).
Note that we don't need the timer at all anymore as the
netnames are in fixed locations on the track and never
make the track look like it's being dragged.
Also improves performance by avoiding sqrt.
Introduces some updates to the inspector, and a number of bug fixes:
- Correctly handles changes in board stackup
- Correctly handles unit change events
- Correctly handles language change events
- All layout / panel settings are stored to the project settings
- Retains ability to create net report
- Simple filter searches on net name and net class name (stored in settings)
- Allows hide / show of columns (stored in settings)
- Grouping by netclass (stored in settings)
- Optional filtering by net name (stored in settings)
- Optional filtering by net class (stored in settings)
- Custom grouping by net name match
This was a crude hack that appends the library URN ordinal to the name of
the footprint so that it can be correctly looked up by the "element" node.
The Eagle XML DTD does not make it clear how the URN "ASSET_ID" and
"VERSION" are used to look up the appropriate "ASSET_TYPE" so this is a
best guess and seems to work correctly.
The inferred edge clearance dialog had to be disabled when importing third
party boards because on GTK (and possibly other platforms) the dialog would
completely hang KiCad preventing the imported board and possible schematic
from being saved.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/12897
IPC2581 is a modern production file exchange system. It provides
single-file data output for an entire board including BOM and netlist
information.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/1954
DRC exclusions were originally written following the C++
pragma model (ie: allow this violation here). However, the
"exclusion" terminology we used in the GUI suggests a model
model where the exclusions go away when the violation no
longer exists.
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/issues/14351
Don't assume the dialog is mode-less and call Destroy() from within a
dialog method. This will most assuredly crash if the dialog is shown
modally or quasi-modally.
Don't leak memory for mode-less dialogs created on the stack. Make sure
when the parent frame window is closed that all mode-less dialog memory
is cleaned up. Dialogs are not child windows like controls and toolbars
so their memory does not automatically get cleaned up when the parent
window is destroyed.
Do not directly access frame parent window's pointer in dialog destructors.
Apparently the tear down order when destroying mode-less dialogs is not
guaranteed so the parent window may get deleted before the dialog causing
a crash when accessing the parent window pointer from the dialog dtor.
Do not close mode-less dialogs in the parent frame's destructor. This
doesn't guarantee that the dialog(s) will be destroyed before the parent
but it may reduce some careless mode-less dialog event handling in the
future.
The wxComboBox drops nicely from the top of the screen, showing the full
element list, opposed to the choice widget that centers the selection
and places the list off the top of the screen if there are many
elements. This was broke for MacOS until wx3.2
Fixes https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/issues/1866
