Wishlist: New Drawing Shapes for eeschema
Description
Eeschema currently only supports lines for drawings. This makes it hard to import other schematics (exemplary from CADSTAR and Altium), as well as limits what users can draw easily.
Suggestions for new drawshapes (should be supported both, in schematic and symbols):
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Arc - (only supported in symbols for now) -
Circle - (only supported in symbols for now) -
Rectangle - (only supported in symbols for now) -
(filled) Polygon (including arcs in the outline) for complex shapes. - (only partly supported in symbols for now) -
Ellipse, Elliptical Arc? (supported by Altium, dunno how many people really need this) -
[ ] Graphics - (only supported in schematic for now)tracked in #2051 (closed) -
[ ] arrow headstracked in #5028 -
fill and line styles -
line styles for arcs and circles
KiCad Version
Application: LibEdit
Version: (5.99.0-3908-g7f1c37612), debug build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.5
libcurl/7.72.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1h zlib/1.2.11 zstd/1.4.5 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.1 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0
Platform: Linux 5.8.13-arch1-1 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, gnome, wayland
Build Info:
Date: Oct 9 2020 09:02:59
wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.72.0
OCE: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.72.0
ngspice: 32
Compiler: Clang 10.0.1 with C++ ABI 1002
Build settings:
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON
KICAD_STDLIB_DEBUG=OFF
KICAD_STDLIB_LIGHT_DEBUG=OFF
KICAD_SANITIZE=OFF
Edited by Jeff Young