I have unreliable wi-fi and must use my Kicad offline quite a bit. Is there source or some comparable program to this
http://kicad.rohrbacher.net/quicklib.php
I looked for a way to contact the author but could not find any. It is made by C. Rohrbacher
Perhaps there is a sourceforge program I could use?
I quickly looked at it and it lacks being intuitive.
I am very grateful for the hard work the KiCad team has done but if you look at the link above, there is no comparison.
Someone had a parametric FP maker running, as proof of concept… couple of months ago.
I think it was online.
It would not be much trouble for me to make a php copy of that link if someone that knows KiCad would catch my mistakes.
I would put it on SourceForge for everyone to download.
Would you be willing to do that?
What mistakes?
For a reference check this out:
https://kicad.org/help/file-formats/
Do you have an apache server running locally to serve you the php?
By mistakes I mean logical mistakes in my program… for example not getting the file format right.
And yes I have both a Internet server and local Apache. I write almost all my programs in PHP because of the ease of using it on both.
Well, if I was you I wouldn’t be afraid to start and once you got something to show off there will be plenty of people to tell you if you have made mistakes - if there is interest there
PS: most people around here use github I think (in case it’s an option for you).
The link I gave above is a beautiful program. It is a real shame the author did not open source it. Then everyone could improve on it until it was wonderful.
Hm… how about this one: http://hackaday.com/2014/07/14/cern-shows-off-new-kicad-module-editor/#comment-1639711
[quote=“Werner Almesberger”]
Cute, but still seems to be a lot more “draw” than “CAD”. To address the weaknesses of KiCAD’s module editor, I wrote a parametric CAD that generates KiCAD modules. It’s called “fped” for “FootPrint EDitor”.
Here’s a very short introduction:
downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/fped/gui.html
To play with it, install the “fped” package or build from sources.
…[/quote]
PS: that’s not the one I was referring to further up.
[EDIT] found the post:
[EDIT2] keep in mind that eeschema and the symbol editor are next on the devs list to work on in regards to refurbishing - still months away - but they’ll definitely throw out the current organization of symbol blobs in lib files and replace it with symbol files in lib folders (same principle as the footprints).