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adamws / kicad-kbplacer

KiCad plugin for automatic keyboard's key placement and routing
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KeyPlacement not Following Column order #21

Closed PabloOyarzo closed 6 months ago

PabloOyarzo commented 6 months ago

Describe the bug Tried different layout export from Keyboard Layout Editor and it doesn't follow the column order

Additional context Heres kbplacer.log kbplacer.log

Screenshots Screenshot_13 Screenshot_14 Screenshot_15 image

KiCad version info

Application: KiCad PCB Editor x64 on x64

Version: 7.0.7, release build

Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.2.2
    FreeType 2.12.1
    HarfBuzz 6.0.0
    FontConfig 2.14.1
    libcurl/7.88.1-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.13

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
    Date: Aug 14 2023 02:42:39
    wxWidgets: 3.2.2 (wchar_t,wx containers)
    Boost: 1.81.0
    OCC: 7.7.1
    Curl: 7.88.1-DEV
    ngspice: 40
    Compiler: Visual C++ 1936 without C++ ABI

Build settings:
    KICAD_SPICE=ON
adamws commented 6 months ago

kblacer places switches in keyboard-layout-editor order which is topmost leftmost, see example: image which is bit counterintuitive for ergo layouts.

I don't have clean solution for that yet. 1) for via-annotated layouts I could sort by labels 2) I could add option to sort by netlist (but that wouldn't work in all cases, in your example you would need to change column orders)

anyway, none of the above are there yet and for now the easiest fix is to rename switches on schematic.

adamws commented 6 months ago

you could also modify schematic a bit so the switches placement mimics the physical placement and re-run annotate: image

alternatively, swap (select two and shift+S) switches on PCB and re-run plugin without layout file and diode placement enabled

PabloOyarzo commented 6 months ago

alternatively, swap (select two and shift+S) switches on PCB and re-run plugin without layout file and diode placement enabled

This would do the trick for now thanks.

Important to point out that with https://keyboard-tools.xyz/ with the following settings can get the closest to the result I was looking for. But I had to change the name prefix afterwards.

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