Inconsistencies on how fabrication settings are saved in PCBNew
Bug #1751171 reported by
José I. Romero
This bug affects 6 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| KiCad |
Fix Released
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Bug Description
Some settings for generating PCB fabrication files are stored in the board file (Like the layer selection and settings for the Gerber export) while others (like the .drl and .pos file options) get saved to the global KiCad settings. It means that when I have two projects that require different settings for the drill file I need to remember to change them back and forth (which gets old fast).
In an ideal world KiCad would allow saving and loading CAM files with all the settings required (for say each fab house). But having everything in the board file would be second best.
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| Andy Peters (devel-latke) wrote | #1 |
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| simski (simski) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| milestone: | none → 6.0.0-rc1 |
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| KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| status: | Triaged → Expired |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| importance: | Wishlist → Unknown |
| status: | Expired → Fix Released |
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Just to add to this, pcbnew layer visibility and other rendering options change the kicad_pcb file. Those options have nothing to do with the design itself, just how it's presented to the user, so they should not be part of the pcb file. Consider: you open the project to look at the layout, and in doing so you turn layers off and on. That touches the design file, so the user will be asked to save the file before closing the program. But that's not a design change, it's a viewing thing. So please don't add visibility controls to the project or pcb file!