Re: [Pcb-bugs] [Bug 1695534] Re: patch to enchance features of NELMA

[Mike C. <16...@bu...>]

Hi Bert
Sorry for my late response.
Checked out your branch, compiled and ran it against gsvit2 test1.  That 
all works.  I will test a little more tomorrow.

Thanks for your commitment to this!
Cheers
Mike

On 11/26/2017 02:27 PM, Bert Timmerman wrote:
> Hi Mike and all,
>
> I sort of finished reformatting the gsvit HID in "home/bert/LP1695534"
> and it compiles without warnings.
>
> It needed #include "find.h" and function prototype declarations for:
>
> void common_draw_pcb_line (hidGC gc, LineType *line);
> void common_draw_pcb_arc (hidGC gc, ArcType *arc);
>
> in "src/hid/common/draw_helpers.h".
>
> Could you please have look at the code and test functionality please ?
>
> TIA and kind regards,
>
> Bert Timmerman
>

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Title:
  patch to enchance features of NELMA

Status in pcb:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I am updating the NELMA export function to work with gsvit
  http://gsvit.net/ an open source FDTD solver with GPU computing
  support.  Most of the translation is being done with a separate
  software package, pcb2gsvit https://github.com/mpcrowe/pcb2gsvit .

  The existing code that uses the NELMA output, NELMA-3.2, appears to be
  dead code and was never fully functional.  I haven't tested the code
  changes against the original NELMA code, but I expect that it breaks
  it.

  The  processing chain of (patched)pcb -> pcb2gsvit -> (patched)gsvit
  is producing an reasonable output. Development is far from complete,
  but I would like to begin the process of integrating a patch to
  implement the changes I've implemented so far.

  Changes
  .png layers now represent unique traces as different colors which map to a netname
  an xml file is now generated that provides board specific information.

  Remaining work 
  includes better trace color indexing for netlist mapping to .png
  output of component XY(z) data (z being the side of the board component is located)

  Rational for implementing patch at this time
  Maintains coherent code base (commit early, commit often)
  Develop methodology of submitting patches you your group
  Begin dialog for developing NELMA export tool 

  Rational for rejecting patch at this time
  Developers are too busy
  Patch needs to go in wildly different direction
  Patch breaks existing NEMLA tool
  Code changes are not complete
  Feature patch request needs to be requested with different venue

  I feel that the rational for considering this request outweighs the
  rational for rejecting it.  Thank you for considering this request!

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