Re: gEDA-user: bugs, warts and feature requests (3)

["Bert Timmerman" <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi KMK, 

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> kai-martin knaak
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> Subject: gEDA-user: bugs, warts and feature requests (3)
> 
> From my notes:
> 
> ? pcb feature request: Please put all the gerbers in a 
> dedicated subdir of the working directory by default. The 
> name of the subdir should be configurable.

Is doable.

> ? pcb feature request: Optionally zip all gerbers and the cnc 
> files to yield a single file that can be sent to the fab. The 
> name of the zip file might contain the current date.

Is doable

> ? pcb usability: pcb just complains on stdout if gerber 
> output is advised to put the gerbers to a non existing path. 
> Suggestion: pop up a warning dialog.

Could be send to the log window.
 
> ? pcb feature request: add a square property to tracks and lines.

One might add SQUARE and BUTT capped.
 
> ? pcb feature request: Currently, text gets lost during 
> "convert buffer to elements". Proposal: Convert text in silk 
> to lines in silk. Convert text in copper to overlapping pads. 
> I guess, it is possible to reuse the already existing render 
> routines to do the conversion. 

Should be configurable.

> ? gnetlist bug: gsch2pcb produced invalid pcb syntax if 
> footprint names contain a hyphen. The work flow will fail 
> somewhere down the road with unspecific symptoms. This is a 
> nasty, but long standing newbie trap that really should be 
> defused one way or another. 
 
+1

> Please comment.
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Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.



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