PCBNEW Feature Request/Wish: An Reference Designator Autoplacement tool.
Description
I would love a tool to autoalign silk screen reference designators to speed up the PCB design process.
It should check where is the neares free space, and place it there.
The assistance should be able to stack labels, so in case e.g. two resistors are above each other, the labels are stacked in the right order.
Steps to reproduce / How it should work
- Open the autoplacement assistance
- Select silk screen bottom or top site
- Set default text properties
- Select the area where the labels should be autoplaced.
- Make a proposal
KiCad Version
Application: KiCad PCB Editor (64-bit)
Version: (6.0.4), release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.1.5
Platform: Windows 10 (build 22000), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
wxWidgets: 3.1.5 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.76.0
OCC: 7.6.0
Curl: 7.78.0-DEV
ngspice: 36
Compiler: Visual C++ 1928 without C++ ABI
Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON