Upgrade footprints to KiCad 8

ceoloide / ergogen-footprints

Ergogen v4 footprints

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Upgrade footprints to KiCad 8 #18

Closed ceoloide closed 6 months ago

ceoloide commented 7 months ago

KiCad 8 will become the minimum version supported by this footprint library, now that Ergogen v4.1.0 has been released with support for KiCad 8 PCB template injection.

simisimis commented 6 months ago

thank you for your amazing work!

I was trying to use your updated library with kicad 8.0.1 When using switch_choc_v1_v2.js with default values, ergogen generates pcb file that wouldn't open. It throws an error:

Error loading PCB './proj.kicad_pcb'. Expecting 'end' in './proj.kicad_pcb', line 526, offset 32.

while the line in that file is:

(fp_arc (start 2.52 -6.2) (mid 2.139878 -6.382304) (end 2.0 -6.78) (layer "B.SilkS") (stroke (width 0.15) (type solid)))

I tried figuring it out myself if some bracket was missing, but had to give up. If I revert the changes(7e4fc81) you made for that footprint, then kicad is able to open ergogen generated file.

ceoloide commented 6 months ago

Hello @simisimis!

The error you quote is shown by KiCad when you open a KiCad 5 *.kicad_pcb file containing KiCad 8 footprints that have incompatible syntax (like fp_arc which changed syntax from V5 to V8).

I updated the README.md to explicitly call out how to force a KiCad 8 file:

Make sure you have ergogen v4.1.0 or greater
Have template: kicad8 in your pcb definition (see README.md for an example)
Use KiCad 8 or greater to open the file

I won't be supporting KiCad 5 moving forward, but should you need KiCad 5 compatible footprints, there is a version and branch tagged specifically with that.

simisimis commented 6 months ago

thank you for the explanation. I was using ergogen 4.1 to generate pcb files and trying to open them with kicad 8. What I was missing is to put template: kicad8. Just tried adding it following your updated readme and it worked! :pray: