Not working with recent nightly 6.99

[Robyrob]

Using it with recent nightly release, it stop working.
I think because kicad programmer changed the option "SetExcludeEdgeLayer()

[pcbway]

Hi,I didn't get the meaning.
We just tried,it is workig well.
Could you tell me the details?

[Robyrob]

I am using the nightly version of Kicad:
Version: (6.99.0-2815-gbbc0c61ccb), release build in Windows 64
In stable version of kicad 6.0 Your plugin is working; in nightly version it doesn't work. The procession bar stop and the files are not generated.
In the python console the message is:'PCB_PLOT_PARAMS' object has no attribute 'SetExcludeEdgeLayer'

[pcbway]

Thanks,I will contact with KiCAD team about this.

[sethhillbrand]

The line

        popt.SetExcludeEdgeLayer(True)

Should be

        if hasattr(popt, "SetExcludeEdgeLayer"):
            popt.SetExcludeEdgeLayer(True)

[pcbway]

Thansk for the help,last time we didn't find the way out

[greggjaskiewicz]

it doesn't work wth the 7.0rc1 still. Please make sure it does, because many of us are using it and trying to push designs using this plugin.

[jonaslee228]

Yes I agree. It is very unhandy to have this not working. Please fix it soon.

[subst4nc3]

KEEP IN MIND THAT I'M NOT A PROGRAMMER....
so the modification are proposed without any warranty and i'm not responsible if you receive an incorrect board made with these modifications.

Hello, i have managed to make it working again by changing and adding some lines in the thread.py file, according to the changes made to another similiar plugin (AISLER):

modify (as suggest by sethhillbrand) from:
popt.SetExcludeEdgeLayer(True)
to:

    if hasattr(popt, "SetExcludeEdgeLayer"):
        popt.SetExcludeEdgeLayer(True)

modify from:
boardWidth = pcbnew.Iu2Millimeter(board.GetBoardEdgesBoundingBox().GetWidth())
boardHeight = pcbnew.Iu2Millimeter(board.GetBoardEdgesBoundingBox().GetHeight())
to:
boardWidth = pcbnew.ToMM(board.GetBoardEdgesBoundingBox().GetWidth())
boardHeight = pcbnew.ToMM(board.GetBoardEdgesBoundingBox().GetHeight())

----add:
angle = f.GetOrientation()
try: # kicad >= 6.99
angle = angle.AsDegrees()
except AttributeError: # kicad <7
angle /= 10.0
---before components.append({ statement.

modify from:
'rotation': f.GetOrientation() / 10.0,
to:
'rotation': angle,

[pcbway]

Now we have solved the problem and updated the plugin that suitable for version7

[greggjaskiewicz]

still not available in Kicad itself tho.

[KanyonKris]

Version 0.1.3 works for me in KiCad 7. Downloaded the plugin and installed manually. I assume version 0.1.3 will be added to the official KiCad plugin repository eventually.

[pcbway]

We will add to the official KiCad plugin repository in gitlab soon