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swill's plate builder

Posted: 27 Jun 2015, 13:10
by Eszett
Hi! I have a question regarding swill's plate builder tool. For an ergo layout I rotated the keycaps in keyboard-layout-editor, but swill's plate builder tool did not correctly process this data, the rotation is shifted awkwardly, see screenshot. Is this a bug? What can I do?

Posted: 28 Jun 2015, 06:55
by salsaverde
Maybe try opening the CAD file in an editor and see if it can be corrected manually.

Posted: 28 Jun 2015, 20:11
by Eszett
Didn't help. I've downloaded the SVG file from builder.swillkb.com, converted the SVG file to *.KiCAD_PCB format, and opened it in KiCAD. There, I mainly see black void. See screenshot. The original layout in keyboard-layout-editor.com is stable, here is the link to the original layout: http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/# ... 769c9f72d1

Posted: 28 Jun 2015, 22:43
by Charger
I don't think swills tool works with rotation from keyboard-layout-editor

Posted: 28 Jun 2015, 23:41
by Eszett
@Charger Thanks for affirmation. I need to rotate manually in an appropriate CAD application then. I checked out QCAD for this purpose, but am not quite satisfied with it's useability ...