FlatCAM: 2D Computer-Aided PCB Manufacturing
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(c) 2014-2019 Juan Pablo Caram
FlatCAM is a program for preparing CNC jobs for making PCBs on a CNC router.
Among other things, it can take a Gerber file generated by your favorite PCB
CAD program, and create G-Code for Isolation routing.
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19.08.2019
- updated the Edit -> Preferences to include also the Gerber Editor complete Preferences
- started to update the app strings to make it easier for future translations
- fixed the POT file and the German translation
18.08.2019
- made the exported preferences formatted therefore more easily read
- projects at startup don't work in another thread so there is no multithreading if I want to double click an project and to load it
- added messages in the application window title which show the progress in loading a project (which is not thread-safe therefore keeping the app from fully initialize until finished)
- in NCC Tool added a new parameter (radio button) that offer the choice on the order of the tools both in tools table and in execution of engraving; added as a parameter also in Edit -> Preferences -> Tools -> NCC Tool
- added possibility to drag & drop FlatCAM config files (*.FlatConfig) into the canvas to be opened into the application
- added GUI in Paint tool in beginning to add Paint by external reference object
- finished adding in Paint Tool the usage of an external object to set the extent of th area painted. For simple shapes (single Polygon) the shape can be anything, for the rest will be a convex hull of the reference object
- modified NCC tool so for simple objects (single Polygon) the external object used as reference can have any shape, for the other types of objects the copper cleared area will be the convex hull of the reference object
- modified the strings of the app wherever they contained the char seq so it is not included in the translated string
- updated the translation files for the modified strings (and for the newly added strings)
- added ability to lock toolbars within the context menu that is popped up on any toolbars right mouse click. The value is saved in QSettings and it is persistent between application startup's.
17.08.2019
- added estimated time of routing for the CNCJob and added travelled distance parameter for geometry, too
- fixed error when creating CNCJob due of having the annotations disabled from preferences but the plot2() function from camlib.CNCJob class still performed operations who yielded TypeError exceptions
- coded a more accurate way to estimate the job time in CNCJob, taking into consideration if there is a usage of multi depth which generate more passes
- another fix (final one) for the Exception generated by the annotations set not to show in Preferences
- updated translations and changed version
- fixed installer issue for the x64 version due of the used CX_FREEZE python package which was in unofficial version (obviously not ready to be used)
- fixed bug in Geometry Editor, in disconnect_canvas_event_handlers() where I left some part of code without adding a try - except block which was required
- moved the initialization of the FlatCAM editors after a read of the default values. If I don't do this then only at the first start of the application the Editors are not functional as the Editor objects are most likely destroyed
- fixed bug in FlatCAM editors that caused the shapes to be drawn without resolution when the app units where INCH
- modified the transformation functions in all classes in camlib.py and FlatCAMObj.py to work with empty geometries
- RELEASE 8.95
17.08.2019
- updated the translations for the new strings
- RELEASE 8.94
16.08.2019
- working in Excellon Editor to Tool Resize to consider the slots, too
- fixed a weird error that created a crash in the following scenario: create a new excellon, edit it, add some drills/slots, delete it without saving, create a new excellon, try to edit and a crash is issued due of a wrapped C++ error
- fixed bug selection in Excellon editor that caused not to select the corresponding row (tool dia) in the tool table when a selection rectangle selected an even number of geometric elements
- updated the default values to more convenient ones
- remade the enable/disable plots functions to work only where it needs to (no sense in disabling a plot already disabled)
- made sure that if multi depth is choosed when creating GCode then if the multidepth is more than the depth of cut only one cut is made (to the depth of cut)
- each CNCJob object has now it's own text_collection for the annotations which allow for the individual enabling and disabling of the annotations
- added new menu category in File -> Backup with two menu entries that duplicate the functions of the export/import preferences buttons from the bottom of the Preferences window
- in Excellon Editor fixed the display of the number of slots in the Tool Table after the resize done with the Resize tool
- in Excellon Editor -> Resize tool, made sure that when the slot is resized, it's length remain the same, because the tool should influence only the 'thickness' of the slot. Since I don't know anything but the geometry and tool diameters (old and new), this is only an approximation and computationally intensive
- in Excellon Editor -> remade the Tool edit made by editing the diameter values in the Tools Table to work for slots too
- In Excellon Editor -> fixed bug that caused incorrect display of the relative coordinates in the status bar
15.08.2019
- added Edit -> Preferences GUI and storage for the Excellon Editor Add Slots
- added a confirmation message for objects delete and a setting to activate it in Edit -> Preferences -> Global
- merged pull request from Mike Smith which fix an application crash when attempting to open a not-a-FlatCAM-project file as project
- merged pull request from Mike Smith that add support for a new SVG element: