Postive x-coordinates instead of negative values in CSV pick and place file

[Frank85]

Hello.
I generated a ASCII pos file and CSV pos file in the same project and found that the x-coordinates are positive in CSV file instead of negative. The origin is set at the bottom left corner of PCB for both files.
Attached you will find a screenshot of both files.

Normally I used the ASCII generated pos file for placing but another manufacturer want a CSV file now.

[eelik]

If at all possible, update to the latest 5.1.5. Many, many bugs have been fixed since 5.0.0.

[Frank85]

Thank you for the reply. My colleague has 5.1.5 version and we got exactally the same CSV files with positive values. Nevertheless I will update my KiCad.

[davidsrsb]

Trying on Windows latest 5.1.x Nightly with a small project and default top left origin, ASCII and CSV are consistent, X positive and Y negative

Please update your very buggy 5.0.0 to 5.1.5-3

[der.ule]

I did that just yesterday, the expected results as @davidsrsb mentioned

I too have both origin on the lower left corner of my board

Application: Eeschema
Version: (5.1.5)-3, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.66.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.1.1) nghttp2/1.39.2
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.71.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.66.0
    Compiler: GCC 9.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Piotr]

@Frank85

The origin is set at the bottom left corner of PCB for both files.

I have never looked inside P&P files, but I thought that if origin is at the bottom left then all coordinates (X and Y) are positive. At least in gerbers it is probably such. Do the P&P has it differently?

[Frank85]

I installed 5.1.5-3 and created again a minimal project and have the same problem. Only for bottom devices (mirrored) the X value should be negative. Attached again screenshots of both files with top left default origin and KiCad screenshot.

[Frank85]

And here KiCad screenshot

[Frank85]

Honestly I’m not sure. But the point is that CSV and ASCII is not consistent.
But maybe it is my fault (?)

[der.ule]

I didn’t realized that the problem was the discrepancies between ASCII and CSV, I just tried again and it works as expected.

Have you tried to set the origins to the corner of your PCB ?

[Frank85]

Thank you. But please try it again with C1 at bottom side e.g.

[der.ule]

I see what you mean, the output is not consistent between CSV and POS, I am not sure if there is some kind of convention about it.

[davidsrsb]

Please raise this as a possible bug on the issue tracker

Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad

Make it clear that the problem is the discrepancy between ASCII and CSV for parts on the bottom side

[Frank85]

I raised it. Thank you.

[der.ule]

Link to the bug report: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/issues/3897

[der.ule]

Bug fixed, will be cherry picked for next 5.1.x release Thanks @MichaelKavanagh and @imcinerney great job !