| ID: | 4200 |
| From: | ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Sun, 21 Jun 2020 08:12:48 +0200 (CEST) |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] rf filter test data |
| in-reply-to: | 4197 from Evan Foss <ev...@gmail.com> |
| replies: | 4246 from Evan Foss <ev...@gmail.com> |
Hi Evan, On Sun, 21 Jun 2020, Evan Foss wrote: >Hi Fellow Pcb-RNDrs > >I asked this person who is doing simulator testing if they could share >their validation data and they did! >https://twitter.com/ElectronicsbyJH/status/1273114195987488769 >They also have tests of connector insertion loss. >https://twitter.com/ElectronicsbyJH/status/1271589349017243648 Cool! >Also: is it just me or is kicad really behind UI wise? >https://www.reddit.com/r/TheAmpHour/comments/hazb79/rf_tools_for_kicad/ I think that video shows an addon, probably something like what we would have in an user script in pcb-rnd. To me, as I wrote in the other mail, this addon looks like a collection of very much specialised tools, not a generic toolbox - for creating your RF transmission line. (In theory we could write a similar script, if there's strong user demand on that. It wouldn't be very hard to map a trace you click, then draw a mask opening above it or draw two line-of-vias around it and set attributes so we could pick them up later for editing. I guess it'd all be some few 100 lines of script with all the GUI dialogs included. I am just not sure we have active user demand for this already - I mean I write a lot of scripts, even upon user request, and I am not sure users then really use those scripts at all or revert back manually doing everything!) So I think it's not about kicad UI in general, it's only about a specific addon's offer. Then whether kicad supports real arcs on copper or it is just line approximation, whether kicad has native UI for drawing them, whether that is more efficient than opening a dialog box for each arc, are the real UI questions, but we won't figure that from this video. Regards, Igor2
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