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Re: [Newbie] No synchronization of layout with flat hierarchy
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi Craig,
Thanks a lot, Axel --- PGP-Key:?CDE74120 ?? ?computing @ chaos claudius |
Re: [Newbie] No synchronization of layout with flat hierarchy
You need to use the 'Replicate Layout' plugin to duplicate a layout for identical hierarchical?sheets. You can layout just one copy, place the pivots for each other duplicate sheets then just use the plugin to duplicate?them. You can get the plugin through the PCM, but anyway There is no feature to keep them synchronised, honestly that isn't really that useful, it sounds like a fancy 'software inspired' feature but when you are designing production PCBs where every trace matters, having things change without you explicitly asking them to would be terrible. You can just rerun the plugin when you have updated the layout.? Craig On Sun, 26 Jun 2022, 18:16 Tony Casey, <tony@...> wrote:
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Re: [Newbie] No synchronization of layout with flat hierarchy
On Sun, 2022-06-26 at 17:43 +0200, Axel Rau wrote:
I've never had to use the scripting console. What have you tried to update the PCB after changing the schematic? Are you saying Tools > Update PCB from Schematic (F8) doesn't work? If you were expecting it to behave like Eagle, it doesn't. -- Regards, Tony |
Re: [Newbie] No synchronization of layout with flat hierarchy
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýIt seems, that the scripting console could help.Any hints? Axel
--- PGP-Key:?CDE74120 ?? ?computing @ chaos claudius |
[Newbie] No synchronization of layout with flat hierarchy
Hi all,
I¡¯m doing my 1st KiCad project. I created a simple parent sheet and a schematic of a circuit which should be repeated 10 times on the board. Everything worked fine but it seems that I have to do the layout 10 times manually, which makes the hierarchical design useless. Is there (in 6.0.5) any possibility to derive the other 9 layouts from the 1st one or even better to keep them synchronized? I found this FAQ where I read, this feature will be in 7.0 and the plugin, which did this job, does no longer work. What is current best practice? Axel --- PGP-Key: CDE74120 ? computing @ chaos claudius |
Re: KiCAd post, back on the list in case someone else might be able to help
Hi Gene,
I suspect we knew each other back on the linux kernel mailing list from 12+ years ago, and from the RadeonHD and linux-kernel mailing lists. We both have distinctive names! I've never used Eagle myself, just KiCad and found it to make designing and fabbing my own (simple) boards quite nice. It's getting all the rest of the electronics and interfacing with the outside world that is the tough part! Good luck with your projects! gene> On Monday, 6 June 2022 14:38:29 EDT you wrote:"gene" == gene heskett <gheskett@...> writes: gene> Thanks for the welcome John, and yes the name does have an old echo ofHi Gene, gene> familiarity, but don't now recall the list. I did at one point inhabit gene> the eagle list and used it a few times, but gave up on it and wrote my gene> own gcode for the simple circuits I was using for encoders and such on my gene> cnc machines. gene> Thats not the only list of course as my interests are best described as gene> varied. gene> Now I have a gage sensor to mount, but can't find its footprint in the gene> debian 11 repo's old kit. It doesn't seem to have a footprint directory, gene> or perhaps KICAD has a different name for such? IDK. gene> Its a Honeywell TBPLLLN015PCUCV. Surface mount, 7 mm square 6 contact gene> pattern. gene> So I'd imagine I have to build it from the tarball, but can't find the gene> right round tuit. At my age, 87, its pretty easy to misslay it, and then gene> can't remember where it is. gene> I've about a 10mm sq. space to glue the pcb with the footprint cut into gene> it. And a whole bunch of 603 series resistors and capcitors to mount on gene> an eval board for an ADA4099-1 high voltage op-amp. gene> The final target is regulating the air pressure to a mister on a heavily gene> modified 6040 mill by pwm-ing the power to a bank of 5, small diapram gene> compressors I can't even hear running over the other cooling fans in the gene> mills electronics. Feed that from the 2hp shop compressor and what little gene> hearing I have left would soon go away. Not to mention burning up that gene> conpressor, it wasn't built to long tolerate a 50% duty cycle. Harbor gene> Freight special. Nuff said. :o(> gene> Take care & stay well John. gene> Cheers, Gene Heskett. gene> -- gene> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: gene> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." gene> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) gene> If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. gene> - Louis D. Brandeis |
Re: KiCAd post, back on the list in case someone else might be able to help
On Monday, 6 June 2022 19:42:55 EDT you wrote:
Do they have a datasheet with the footprint detail? It's easy to makeThe base is 7mm square, with 6 "pins" but it is analog out so only uses 3 of the 4 corner pins. I have a 6040 mill, with a 24k rev spindle and engraving bits, and can write gcode, so for a one off, thats likely what I'll do. The biggest problem is the lack of flat on the 6040's extruded bed. So a pcb holding pallate must first be made to establish a truely flat place to hold the pcb. The artwork I do have from honeywell is pretty, but contains no measurement data other than the footprint is 7mm square. Even pin1 isn't obviously Id'd. The other problem is parts availability for 603 family resistors and capacitors. The usual suspects are out of stock re the capacitor assortments. So we'll muddle along with temporary compressor speed controls. I can do them in the linuxcnc gui with pyvcp tools. How big a pix (in kilobytes, base-64'd) can I post, my camera is quite hi rez and its difficult to shrink what I get down to a submissable size without jpeg artifacts being pretty obvious. Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis |
Re: KiCAd post, back on the list in case someone else might be able to help
Do they have a datasheet with the footprint detail? It's easy to make
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your own footprint in KiCad. On 6/6/2022 4:16 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday, 6 June 2022 18:28:37 EDT you wrote:Have a look on the mouser site. (they do not list the specific sensorwrong part family. |
Re: KiCAd post, back on the list in case someone else might be able to help
On Monday, 6 June 2022 18:28:37 EDT you wrote:
Have a look on the mouser site. (they do not list the specific sensorwrong part family. My point precisely. They do not have an ecad print for it, so I submitted a request for a 4 pin version. So we wait. Thank you Andy. Andy Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis |
Re: KiCAd post, back on the list in case someone else might be able to help
Have a look on the mouser site. (they do not list the specific sensor you
mention, however if the device is part of the ABP series such as: ABP2LANG001BG2A3XX Mouser has links to their Ecad models, which include the kicad versions. This may save you a bit of work. (the footprint looks very simple anyway) Andy On Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:45:21 -0400 "Gene Heskett" <gheskett@...> wrote: On Monday, 6 June 2022 14:38:29 EDT you wrote:Hi Gene,Thanks for the welcome John, and yes the name does have an old echo of |
Re: KiCAd post, back on the list in case someone else might be able to help
On Monday, 6 June 2022 14:38:29 EDT you wrote:
Hi Gene,Thanks for the welcome John, and yes the name does have an old echo of familiarity, but don't now recall the list. I did at one point inhabit the eagle list and used it a few times, but gave up on it and wrote my own gcode for the simple circuits I was using for encoders and such on my cnc machines. Thats not the only list of course as my interests are best described as varied. Now I have a gage sensor to mount, but can't find its footprint in the debian 11 repo's old kit. It doesn't seem to have a footprint directory, or perhaps KICAD has a different name for such? IDK. Its a Honeywell TBPLLLN015PCUCV. Surface mount, 7 mm square 6 contact pattern. So I'd imagine I have to build it from the tarball, but can't find the right round tuit. At my age, 87, its pretty easy to misslay it, and then can't remember where it is. I've about a 10mm sq. space to glue the pcb with the footprint cut into it. And a whole bunch of 603 series resistors and capcitors to mount on an eval board for an ADA4099-1 high voltage op-amp. The final target is regulating the air pressure to a mister on a heavily modified 6040 mill by pwm-ing the power to a bank of 5, small diapram compressors I can't even hear running over the other cooling fans in the mills electronics. Feed that from the 2hp shop compressor and what little hearing I have left would soon go away. Not to mention burning up that conpressor, it wasn't built to long tolerate a 50% duty cycle. Harbor Freight special. Nuff said. :o(> Take care & stay well John. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis |
Re: new subscriber
That comes up Ok
JEDEC MO-193 which is the TSOT 23-6 Andy On Wed, 25 May 2022 19:32:28 -0400 "Gene Heskett" <gheskett@...> wrote: On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 19:14:44 EDT you wrote:On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 18:40:29 EDT you wrote:I think I may have typme'd* that, s/b ADA4099-1.Hi Gene and welcome... |
Re: new subscriber
On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 19:14:44 EDT you wrote:
On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 18:40:29 EDT you wrote:I think I may have typme'd* that, s/b ADA4099-1.Hi Gene and welcome... *typme'd, a typo by me ;o)> Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis |
Re: new subscriber
On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 18:40:29 EDT you wrote:
Hi Gene and welcome...I did check for that one but came up empty. So I threw money at it and bought 2 eval boards, all ready to go. Thanks Andy
Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis |
Re: new subscriber
Hi Gene and welcome...
Is the device number correct? nothing shows on the AD website nor on digikey (I'm in the UK) I've not got K5 on the system as I've just installed Kicad 6 from the debian bullseye backports You may need to reload the package database and see if the later version shows up. There are some TSOT packages in the footprints in K6 but not the one you mention. TSOP plenty of versions I suspect that the package you want is the TSOT-23-6 which is in the library. However do recheck the datasheet. Andy On Wed, 25 May 2022 16:58:11 -0400 "Gene Heskett" <gheskett@...> wrote: Greetings all; |
Re: new subscriber
Howdy and welcome!
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In addition to the native KiCad libraries, there are several sites that offer symbols and footprints - I think they may partner with the manufacturers to make it easier to use their chips. I'ave had good luck with and but there are probably others too. I think digikey and sparkfun have some too. Steve On 5/25/22 04:58 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
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new subscriber
Greetings all;
New subscriber, here, but not new to electronics in general. I'm currently 87 yo, and 20 years retired. Mader the reaper blink first several times. I have and 8th grade education, but I am a Certified Electroncs Technician who spent the last 40 some years keeping a tv station on the air at several tv stations here in the US, last 18 years at the CBS affiliate in north central West Virginia. So the dirt under my fingernails is real from working on CNC machinery since I retired. I needed a high voltage op-amp to interface between a MAP sensor and the A/D range of a mesa electronics field input and found an analog devices ADA4497-1 in a tsop package, figured it would be ideal, but no one has stock in a tsop-6 package, so I finall told digikey to send me 3 of the ADA4499-1's, which are in a tsot-6 package, not much bigger than a grain of sand. Might be 2mm square including feet! I hear great things about kicad, and eagle has gone to the darkside and unreal licenses, so its out. I need to design a board to use this, so I downloaded/installed kicad-5.1.9 from debian-backports. And the first thing I look for is a tsot-6 footprint. No such thing. There may be one but I've no clue where apt installed it. So thats my first question: Does it have a tsot-6 footprint? If so, where do I find it? Thanks for any help. Take care and stay well everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis |
Re: suggest new feature: Arc-shaped Edge Plating
#pcb-manufacture
On Thu, 19 May 2022 04:25:26 -0700
"wu.weikang via groups.io" <wu.weikang@...> wrote: I got a PCBA like this recently. the Cut-line of PCB is plated.The only way to do that will be to have a slot that gets plated before the PCB outline is milled to drop the PCB out of the frame. |
Re: suggest new feature: Arc-shaped Edge Plating
#pcb-manufacture
wu.weikang@
I got a PCBA like this recently. the Cut-line of PCB is plated.
What i want is make the corner a plated fillet. ![]() |
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