Commit 2515a806 authored by Dick Hollenbeck's avatar Dick Hollenbeck
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initial work on PCBNew PLUGIN support, in preparation for nanometer board load and save

parent 5e3ca2e7

CHANGELOG.txt

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Please add newer entries at the top, list the date and your name with

email address.





2011-Nov-27 UPDATE Dick Hollenbeck <dick@softplc.com>

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  PCBNew

  * Add PLUGIN and IO_MGR classes.

  * Remove one argument from BOARD constructor,

  * add BOARD::SetWindowFrame()



2011-sept-13 UPDATE Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@verizon.net>

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  PCBNew locate code refactoring.

Documentation/biu-plan.txt

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in X and Y directions and are some integer multiple apart in this 2D space,

greater than one BIU.



*) Metric Board. This is a pcb board that has a great number of coordinates and

distances that happen to be some multiple of the BIU that is also a multiple of

a metric engineering unit such as micrometers.



*) Imperial Board.  This is a pcb board that has a great number of coordinates and

distances that happen to be some multiple of the BIU that is also a multiple of

an imperial engineering unit such as mils or inches.



Assumptions:

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#if USE_DOUBLE_BFU

typedef double          BFU;

#define FMT_ENG         ".%6g"

#define FMT_ENG         ".%10g"

#else

typedef long double     BFU;

#define FMT_ENG         ".%6Lg"

#define FMT_ENG         ".%10Lg"

#endif



A format string can then be built up using compile time concatenation of
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of unity, since destination is a RAM BOARD using deci-mils as its BIU.



2) Legacy to nanometer loader. This loader uses a floating point scaling factor

of ________, since destination is a RAM BOARD using nanometers as its BIU, and

of 2540, since destination is a RAM BOARD using nanometers as its BIU, and

the source format is using deci-mils.



3) mm to nanometer loader.  This loader uses a floating point scaling factor

copyright.h

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/*

 * This program source code file is part of KICAD, a free EDA CAD application.

 * This program source code file is part of KiCad, a free EDA CAD application.

 *

 * Copyright (C) 1992-2011 <author>

 * Copyright (C) 1992-2011 Kicad Developers, see change_log.txt for contributors.

 * Copyright (C) 2011 <author>

 * Copyright (C) 2011 KiCad Developers, see change_log.txt for contributors.

 *

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

cvpcb/class_DisplayFootprintsFrame.cpp

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    icon.CopyFromBitmap( KiBitmap( icon_cvpcb_xpm ) );

    SetIcon( icon );



    SetBoard( new BOARD( NULL, this ) );

    SetBoard( new BOARD( this ) );

    SetScreen( new PCB_SCREEN() );



    LoadSettings();

gerbview/export_to_pcbnew.cpp

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{

    m_gerbview_frame = aFrame;

    m_file = aFile;

    m_pcb = new BOARD( NULL, m_gerbview_frame );

    m_pcb = new BOARD( m_gerbview_frame );

}