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| energijapanikoj@gmail.com (energijapanikoj) wrote Re: spurious generation of project files | #4 |
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I also have this issue.
Sometimes I just need to mill out the board partially, excluding the most components, leaving only mechanical related components - connectors, mounting holes, slots, etc. I like to do this simple run of single sided PCB before sending the whole project for manufacturing. What I do is I copy kicad_pcb file to a separate file and remove all the unnecessary stuff. I don't need schematics for that, I just want some footprints at their locked positions. This .pro file autocreation is mildly annoying while I understand that stuf like project related footprint libraries and board settings are saved to .pro file.
On another hand this is related to making kicad more friendly to revision control systems - a lot of stuff is changed in the files while just zooming/panning and showing/hiding layers. It would be cool to have a single separate file containing all this relatively low priority information. I will write a separate wishlist ticket for this.