Closed craigarno closed 6 months ago
Hi @craigarno ! My advice: wait some months until KiCad 8 becomes stable, just take a look at the (huge) amount of bugs in 6.0.0 and 7.0.0.
Right now I can't even find a Debian/Ubuntu package of 8.0.0rc2, may be I can use a docker image, but again be patient. KiCad is developed in a way that plug-in break, compatibility is not in the KiCad team agenda. I'm sure you can generate the XML in some way.
I was able to half answer my own question: "Legacy" still generates XML for KiCost. I can't live without KiCost, so this is an upgrade dealbreaker to me if KiCost needs an XML and KiCad can't produce an XML (thankfully, it still does, from the menu).
Anyway, yes, it took me ½ year before I could accept v7 into my work flow.
There are two features which really stand out to me as nice in v8 which make me want to adopt...
And new SPICE enhancements which make it easier to work with modeling (trivial example)
Anyway, v8 is coming, but now I can breathe again.
Hey, thank you for all your support @set-soft !
- New Schematic PDF generation with added component information for support people (think purchasing, maybe manufacturing) who don't have and don't want KiCad.
Note that for people wanting to see KiCad projects, without KiCad, the KiCanvas project is a promising thing.
You can see how KiBot can generate it here, you can also see other KiBot stuff here
@set-soft , Looks like the Linux version of KiCad v8.0 is now released for use/review! https://www.kicad.org/download/linux/
Currently I have KiCad 8.0.1 docker images working, but they use unstable Linux. KiCad people didn't create packages for an Ubuntu compatible with the current Debian stable, don't know why because the nightly builds included "Lunar", which is compatible.
Anyways, I think this issue is solved, so we can close it.
Issue / Problem report
P:\Project\555\KiCAD8>kicost -v KiCost v1.1.18
Add a terminal error report / txt, use
--debug
option on KiCost call; kicost -w -i %YOUR_FILE% --debug 8I usually use: kicost -w -i "555.xml" --eda kicad --fields Description
Now there is only the ability to produce CSV's, no XML is produced.
What is needed to easily import KiCad v8 BOM CSV's? Here is an example file: 555.csv
Feature / Enhancement request