Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

[1.6.9] - 2022-04-10

Fixed

--list option was limited to layer IDs upto 50. Now isn't limited.
Problems with xclip messages for the version found on Fedora 35.

[1.6.8] - 2022-03-29

Added

3D View: support for X, Y, Z rotation in steps (KiCad 6 only)

[1.6.7] - 2022-03-26

Added

PCB export: support for KiCad 6 color theme selection

[1.6.6] - 2022-03-26

Added

3D View: support for alpha channel (KiCad 6)
3D View: support for solder mask and silk screen bottom colors (KiCad 6)

Fixed

KiCad 6: 3D View axis not disabled

[1.6.5] - 2022-03-08

Added

3D View support for KiCad 6 (now that bug 9890 is fixed)
Gencad export (#17)

[1.6.4] - 2022-03-03

Added

pcbnew_do SVG export

[1.6.3] - 2022-01-18

Fixed

KiCad 6: pcbnew_do problems when KiCad isn't configured.

[1.6.2] - 2022-01-18

Added

Error message when the import tool isn't installed.

[1.6.1] - 2022-01-13

Added

Support for --subst-models option

[1.6.0] - 2021-12-28

Added

kicad2step_do a wrapper for kicad2step, a GUI tool in KiCad 6

Changed

Better support for KiCad 6 DRC errors.
Better support for KiCad 6 error dialog at start-up.

[1.5.14] - 2021-12-02

Added

Added experimental mechanism to detect the ray tracing end (#12)

Fixed

3D View zoom issues on some systems (#13)

[1.5.13] - 2021-11-30

Fixed

Problems with xdotool failing to match strings on some locales.

[1.5.12] - 2021-11-25

Added

Monochrome schematic print.

Fixed

pcbnew_do export problems when the PCB name contained "print" and we asked to fill zones.

[1.5.11] - 2021-11-18

Added

PCB 3D view capture.

[1.5.10] - 2021-11-16

Fixed

pcbnew_do export problems when the PCB name contained "print".

[1.5.9] - 2021-11-16

Changed

Now the time-out scale also affects the time we wait for a file creation.

Fixed

pcbnew_do export scaling for the "fit page" case.
Locale problems for some Linux distros (i.e. Arch)
Problems with wrong KiCad version in unstable Debian.

[1.5.8] - 2021-02-22

Added

Verbosity level 3 enables logs for: KiCad, check for Xvfb and recordmydesktop.
GitLab CI workaround:
- Retries when we detect KiCad prematurely dies (before creating a window).
- Delay after detecting Xvfb is running (increased exponentially on retries).

[1.5.7] - 2021-02-17

Added

Call to vmstat and uptime after time-out.
KiCad bug #6989 message supression.

[1.5.6] - 2021-02-08

Added

Command line option to scale all the time-outs.

[1.5.5] - 2021-01-12

Added

KiCad environment variables preservation in eeschema_do
Support for KICAD_CONFIG_HOME defined from inside KiCad
ERC report name can be configured

Fixed

No KiCad config assumed, now we ask KiCad

[1.5.3] - 2020-10-15

Added

Support for KiCad 5.99 DRC/ERC reports.

Fixed

Problems when using KiCad 5.99 and projects from KiCad 5.

[1.5.2] - 2020-10-12

Added

Option to pcbnew_do export:
- --mirror/-M Mirror printing (KiCad 6 only!)

[1.5.1] - 2020-10-08

Added

Options to pcbnew_do export:
- --scaling/-s Scale factor (0 fit page)
- --pads/-p Pads style (0 none, 1 small, 2 full)
- --no-title/-t Remove the title-block
- --monochrome/-m Print in blanck and white
- --separate/-S Layers in separated sheets

[1.5.0] - 2020-10-05

Added

Support for KiCad Nightly
- Just define the environment variable: KIAUS_USE_NIGHTLY=5.99

[1.4.2] - 2020-09-10

Fixed

Crash when no arguments.
Crash when no x11vnc and it was requested.
Lost warning messages when using --warnings_as_errors

[1.4.1] - 2020-06-14

Added

--fill_zones/-f option to 'pcbnew_do export' to fill zones before printing.

Changed

Filtered errors are displayed as warnings, but ignored.
Filtered warnings are displayed as information.
When an error/warning is filtered a debug message informs which regex matched.

[1.4.0] - 2020-06-08

Added

--errors_filter/-f option to provide a file containing errors to ignore from DRC/ERC.

Fixed

Sometimes when using a WM the "pcbnew_do export" failed to open the Printer dialog.
Sometimes when exiting xdotool didn't find any window and reported error.
When the filled zones changed during DRC the PCB could be saved even when we didn't specify --save

[1.3.1] - 2020-05-19

Fixed

Under some situations the EEschema plot dialog failed to clear the old file path and we pasted concatenated. Was introduced when fixing the browse button selected.

[1.3.0] - 2020-05-18

Added

--wait_key/-w option to send the commands step by step (debug)
--start_x11vnc/-s option to start a server so we can monitor what's going on (debug)
--use_wm/-m option to start a window manager (fluxbox) so we can interact better (debug)

Changed

Now we exit eeschema and pcbnew without killing the application.
Default record height now is 960.

Fixed

Error and Warning dialog detection. Now we use more specific regular expressions.
Sometimes the 'Plot Schematic Options' starts with the browse button selected and we must move left.
Sometimes the netlist dialog starts with the generation button selected and we move to the plugin button instead. Now we detect it and go back to the generate button.

[1.2.0] - 2020-05-13

Added

Support for PS, DXF and HPGL to the schematic export.
Support for eeschema already running.
Support for loading KiCad 4 schematics (asking for Remap symbols)

Changed

pcbnew_print_layers to "pcbnew_do export" to be coherent with "eeschema_do"
pcbnew_run_drc to "pcbnew_do run_drc" ditto

Fixed

--ignore_unconnected of pcbnew_run_drc wasn't implemented.
ERC omitted warnings if errors were detected.
The project file could be altered, or even lost, during schematic export.

[1.1.6] - 2020-04-23

Changed

Now we use setxkbmap instead of xset to test X is working. If setxkbmap isn't available we default to xset.

[1.1.5] - 2020-04-20

Added

More support for docker environment in the pcbnew scripts

Changed

Now eeschema_do reports ERC warnings as warning messages

[1.1.4] - 2020-04-20

Added

Support missing *-lib-table in user config
Create the KiCad config dir if it doesn't exist

Fixed

Two missing dependences.

[1.1.3] - 2020-03-30

Changed

Debug and info colors.

[1.1.2] - 2020-03-21

Added

Support for the names used by kiplot for the inner layers.

[1.1.1] - 2020-03-18

Fixed

Supressed eeschema stdout to avoid printing the ERC report.
ERC errors now reported as negative values.

[1.1.0] - 2020-03-16

Added

--save to save the PCB after DRC (updating filled zones)

Changed

Sorted command line options

Fixed

Give more priority to the local module instead of the system wide installed.

[1.0.0] - 2020-03-10

Added

Option to list all layers to pcbnew_print_layers.
Documentation for the new scripts.
Debian package files.
Different error levels.
--version and --verbose.
Unified the loggers and made it coloured.
Width and height config for the record function.
--output_name option to the DRC.
Netlist generation
Simple BoM (XML) generation
Print a PDF containing one or more layers.

Changed

Error level of src/pcbnew_run_drc to negative to be more coherent with the run_erc command.
Interpreter to Python 3.
Renamed the main scripts so they don't include .py in the name.
Renamed the "util" package to "kicad_auto" (less generic).
Moved the eeschema/export_bom.py functionality to the bom_xml command of src/eeschema_do.
eeschema/schematic.py -> src/eeschema_do.py (more descriptive name).
Now we keep only the last recorded video.
Added creation of a suitable eeschema config, instead of editing the current.
Made schematic and output_dir position args (always used).
Removed --screencast_dir in favor of --record (+ size).
_pcbnew/print_layers.py to src/pcbnew_print_layers.
Renamed _pcbnew/run_drc.py to src/pcbnew_run_drc.
Made some debug/info message classification to make it cleaner.
Supressed the recordmydesktop output.
Now the screencast files are named according to the recorded task.
Suppressed the pcbnew stderr (noissy).
Disabled long waits to test for old errors.
Adapted to KiCad 5.1.x.
Saves the current pcbnew/eeschema config and creates one usable. The originals are restored.

Removed

Custom configs. Now they are generated on-the-fly.
_pcbnew/generate_svg.py, its functionality can be achieved using pcbnew_print_layers.
_pcbnew/generate_gerber.py, kiplot project has a better solution.

Fixed

Simplified the copy/paste mechanism used for run_erc. The old one could fail.
src/pcbnew* always recorded the session.
Adjusted the pcbnew first time-out, for some reason I'm getting huge delays.
A test (and wait) for the Xvfb, sometimes is slow and xclip runs before it.
clipboard_store rewrite, the old version ignored any errors
Made stronger the eeschema config parser.
Language set as english + UTF-8 (to run outside docker).