Footprint Position File output improvements needed

Bug #1679205 reported by Art
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KiCad
Fix Released
Medium
Jeff Young

Bug Description

The x coordinates of the Position File need to be inverted for the bottom layer. Let's say that you picked the left corner for your position file as the origin. In PCB new the coordinates are of the same sign for the top and the bottom layer because you are in the "see through" view. However when the board is flipped on the pick and place machine your top left corner now became top right corner and all X coordinates now should be negative.

And another suggestion. For the ascii position file the separate fields are delineated with spaces, so during file generation all the spaces in all the fields used need to be replaced with underscore. Not sure about other fields, but I personally use spaces a lot in the value field (i.e. designate voltage of a capacitor or precision, like 47uF 50V) If those spaces are not replaced the file will be corrupted when imported into a pick and place machine.

Eldar Khayrullin (eldar)
tags: added: fabrication gal pcbnew
tags: removed: gal
Jeff Young (jeyjey)
Changed in kicad:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
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jean-pierre charras (jp-charras) wrote :

The most annoying thing about ASCII position file is the fact I never saw any official documentation about this format.

Any official info is welcome.

Jeff Young (jeyjey)
Changed in kicad:
assignee: nobody → Jeff Young (jeyjey)
status: Triaged → In Progress
milestone: none → 5.0.0-rc2
Revision history for this message
KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote :

Fixed in revision 683be7155e7044f030a12d6cf73d8ab54b6fe38d
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=683be7155e7044f030a12d6cf73d8ab54b6fe38d

Changed in kicad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Jeff Young (jeyjey) wrote :

@Art, I don't have a pick-n-place machine on my desk, so if you get a chance to test this that would be great. ;)

Changed in kicad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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