kikit panel CPL file all over the place #440
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Can you provide your generated files so that I can take a look at them? |
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OK, I guess th eproblem is that the ref, SW1 for example occures on each pcb of the panel, ehich makes absolute sens (I've never done panels before, so I never thought about that). |
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Is there a reason you did not include the panized version in th egit repo? |
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I just generate it each time via kikit and the included kitkit json file |
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I have the same problem as above. The latest revision does not produce CPL position for every components. I have 2x2 panel generated by Kikit, it only list once for each component randomized from one of the boards (4 boards total). See example:
I did not have that issue before until Version 2024.04.02 when I started having problems. I haven't tested it with 2024.04.01 yet. Last production run with panelized boards were in March so I probably ran it off on 2023.09.01 version. AFAIK the 2023.09.01 version generated the panelized CPL file correctly. I'm currently on version 2024.05.01, this version is causing problems. I'm unable to rollback to the older version. I need to have the board produced this week and this is problematic. |
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Just to add comment here, I was able to generate position file using KiCad's File > Fabrication Outputs > Component Placement and renamed the columns in the generated file and it worked. It just that your plug-in is not producing correct output. This is a temporary workaround for Kikit generated panelized boards. |
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@shuki25 can you share the project files including the panel? |
No. It's proprietary. Sorry. |
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Did my panel not work ? |
I wasn't able to generate a panel. For whatever reason I can't get KiKit to work ... |
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Ok, I finally managed to create the panel by using the Docker method. I wonder how this could ever have worked!? We iterate over all parts in the table and get the position of each part, so if we have 4x C1 for example, we just get the position fo one (random) of them, whatever the KiCAD API returns on But I have a solution in mind. We iterate over all parts on the board and serach a match in the parts table. That way we get all C1 parts for example. But that will take some time to implement ... |
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I don't understand why 2023.09.01 version worked just fine. Why reimplement if previous version worked? What has changed in your code base? Did it break under KiCad 8? |
KiKit Panels have the same ref, C1 for example on all boards of a panel. In order to get all of them in the POS / BOM files we now iterate over all parts of the board, matching them with a ref from the database.
KiKit Panels have the same ref, C1 for example on all boards of a panel. In order to get all of them in the POS / BOM files we now iterate over all parts of the board, matching them with a ref from the database.
I think this is a regression of #155. I submitted a 3x3 board and had my CPL rejected. It seems that its randomly selecting a reference designation for each part, leading to the placement being all over the panel rather than on one unit.
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