Replicate silk annotations

[hildogjr]

A interesting feature would be replicate also (by one checkbox option) replicate the silk annotation inside the boundary of the hierarchical layout.

Procedure (internal idea to the algorithm): 1) Replicate the parts and tracks; 2) Check the silk that are inside (or at least some part inside) the boundary defined by the already made layout (we have to check how to do this with the pcbnew package); 3) Replicate this silk annotations.

[MitjaNemec]

Doable via board.DrawingsList(). I'll have to figure it out how to implement it in within the plugin though

[hildogjr]

Maybe a workflow: 1) During the parts and tracks replicate action, collect the maximum boundary of each footprint/track and keep in a variable. Iterating and replace by maximum and minimum during the iteration; 2) Finish all the parts and tracks procedures; 3) Iterate the board.DrawingsList() and replicate that one that cross the above boundary (draws which some point of the boundary are internal of the boundary calculated on (1) ).

[MitjaNemec]

At the moment, this (general concept) is not doable for the lack of API. The board.GetDrawings() or board.DrawingsList() returns list of EDA_RECT obecjts. And EDA_RECT object lacks methods to check on which layer it is or to put it on a certain layer. I'll leave the issue open, but until the pcbnew API changes I don't see a way of solving it

[qu1ck]

board.DrawingsList() returns BOARD_ITEM list which do have Get/SetLayer()

[MitjaNemec]

Thanks for the info. I really appreciate it. So the issue is back on my TODO list

[MitjaNemec]

Fixed. Though I have to say I really feel silly that I did not spot the option as I already used board.GetDrawings() for text replication.