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Kicad action plugins
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place_footprints only arranges selected components, not all elements on sheet #32

Closed capaulson closed 5 years ago

capaulson commented 5 years ago

I've been exploring the capabilities of the new place_components and noticed it only moves the component selected. This is when 'Sheet Number' is selected in the "Place by?" dialog. I'm digging into the code, but I wanted to flag the issue.

MitjaNemec commented 5 years ago

This is intentional and it is intended to supplement revised replicate_layout plugin.

For more flexible operation of replicate_layout plugin I had to split the placement part from replication part.

The workflow for sheet replication now is:

  1. do a complete layout of one sheet instance (placement, layout, ...)
  2. place anchor footprints for other sheet instances either manually or using place_footprints "Place by sheet" functionality
  3. replicate layout to other sheets using replicate_layout
capaulson commented 5 years ago

Perfect! It worked. I did get an error in the matrix option. I got an issue where it wasn't getting an int. I think it's just missing .Get value().

MitjaNemec commented 5 years ago

Thanks for spotting the bug. It has been fixed.