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Add a way to build kicad library folders from models and footprints stored in kipartman.

When switching back from flat to tree mode in part view kipartman gets stuck somewhere.

In testing #8 Drag and Drop functionality in Parts Tree seemed to be missing these usecases.

USE CASE: 1. Drag a part in the tree_parts onto an line that is a Category Path
Essentially changing a parts category

USE CASE: 2. Drag a category in the tree_parts onto a line That is a Category path
Essentially changing all items to a sub category of the selected Category path

This works on the Categories Tree

see kipartman/frames/parts_frame.py
#TODO: comments 5f3a8f4

I would be interesting to have more filtering options when searching for a part, for exemple searching for a specific parameter (ex: 10kΩ)

There is still items to be added to the configuration windows:

• choice of default user currency
• path to kicad in case of several instances or not found in system path

OctopartExtractor Method GetUnits catching error for unit not in kipartbase.
A TODO: is marked in code to create unit if not found.

Commit f7cc013
improves the warning/error displayed and updates todo

Does the Api need extending with a add_unit method ?,
Will this be a Swagger spec to be created ?

Additionally

1. the UnitPrefix should have the same treatmentent
2. Modal Error messages should possibly be directed to logging ( this is probably through out codebase)
3. If Errors in Octopart Lookup happen, should they be added to the part comment field ?

Allow to automatically group parts upon some criteria inside a metapart:

For example a 10k - 0805 metapart could match all parts with :

• resistance = 10k
• footprint = 0805

And another part 10k - 0805 - 1% would match all parts with matching parameters:

• resistance = 10k
• footprint = 0805
• tolerance = 1%

The ability to do an action on multiple parts

What else ?
What to watch for ?

The REST api handles correctly adding several times a part to another, however the gui should pre-check this to avoid viewing bugs.

see: a simple fix, I will raise it as a Pull Request for Master
[IMP] Error Handler if running without Kicad pcbnew eb3b0cf

As discussed in #4
We can now successfully populate kicad fields from kipartman data in realtime

HD MP4 version of above GIF @ https://vimeo.com/247526685

This Enhancement is in prototype so is immature (not fully developed) but stable for component Properties Edit, Kicad Eeschema. This enhancement at present will only work in a Windows environment, . As such I think it should stay on a development branch. It will expand, mutate and change, I will sync it with master periodically. For the moment I have published to my Fork https://github.com/auphofBSF/kipartman/tree/FEATURE17W48-KICADlink-Eeschema.

The python classes I am using are developing for linux as well, and MSW specific functions are separated. The method to do the integration with kicad is using the UIA (User interface Accessibility) interfaces to monitor for window/dialog s ,to then parse and automate there field manipulation. This enhancement adds multi-process and threads to improve and isolate functionality for smooth UI processing between Kicad and Kipartman

TODO:

Handle corner cases, Kicad not running and Kicad Eeschema (Schematic) , fields not defined
Kicad Eeschema add component to schematic - Automate Dialog from Kipartman
Kicad Eeschema schematic Component Table View - Automate Dialog from Kipartman

Wishes

Ideally there should be better API and extension support in eeschema,

Items to explore:

see: http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/doxygen/v5_road_map.html#v5_sch_plugin

Currently when sorting column sort is only made by alphabetic order event if column contain numbers.

Dragging part over category items (Left pane) indicates no options

However dragged to the top of frame displays + on the floating tooltip and then usually drags into the top most displayed category but not always

Trying to debug various other issues with Drag and Drop . I have some patches that improve error handling and debugging I will publish as pull requests, but as yet no solution.

These two columns are important, they should be available on the part list

Kipartman fails around checking for currencies if internet connection is down
Look at handling , Startup, Octopart and SnapEDA queries in event of internet connection unavailable

Provide a means for exporting and importing of parts lists.

1. allow for a plugin architecture to enable easy integration with other Kicad tools
2. This could form the basis of moving parts from 1 category to another

I have already a working prototype with export to csv or SQL database and import from SQL through a plugin architecture. It has all the core parts but is currently hardcoded into Kipartman for SQLimport, I have a few tidyup's todo and I will publish in the next day or 2 a working branch with this support for comment and possible integration.

My primary goals are,

1 populate kipartman parts list with existing detailed inventory in my MRP system (maintained in Odoo)
2 retrieve in kipartman component data using the octopart / snapeda interfaces
3 automatically populate the @http://joshuacox.github.io/bomsaway schematic component selection tool

Secondary goals

1 update the Odoo MRP bom directly from (Git version controlled schematic / pcb)
2 update Odoo MRP database with a richer component data

Adding a part to itself should be forbidden as it corrupts the database.
This is a regression, checks are already implemented but not working well.