Is rigid flex suport not part of version 6 roadmap?

[davidsrsb]

@eelik

The v6 roadmap has been moved to the project’s wiki.

https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/wikis/KiCad-6.0-Roadmap

I don’t see the Flexi-rigid support in that list

[eelik]

That’s worth of a new discussion. Hatched zones are already implemented, teardrops and rounded traces have been scheduled for v6. What else is missing?

Could someone with priviledges move this to a new thread?

[davidsrsb]

I was discussed recently here

Drawing Rigid-Flex Design in Kicad 5

I did a search and I did not see anything new, or with a real answer, but is there a method for drawing a rigid-flex design in KiCAD 5? Looking at the layer configuration I do not see a way to partition the design between the rigid areas and the flex areas. Coming to KiCAD form Allegro, you can tell the software to have different layer counts in different areas.

[craftyjon]

@davidsrsb

I don’t see the Flexi-rigid support in that list

The linked roadmap is for V6 only. We’ll continue to develop roadmaps for future versions as we make progress on development, but it doesn’t make as much sense to guess at when a particular feature will appear far in the future, only to be wrong later. Rigid-flex support is a known feature request, but hasn’t been targeted at a release yet. It’s a big job, and we haven’t even started developing a specification for it.

If we added every new feature request to the V6 roadmap, V6 would never come out

[davidsrsb]

I first ran into the limitations of KiCad board stacking in V4

I find several references that flex-rigid should use ODB+, but all of these seem to originate from Altium