FlatCAM Evo BETA (c) 2019 - by Marius Stanciu Based on FlatCAM: 2D Computer-Aided PCB Manufacturing by (c) 2014-2016 Juan Pablo Caram

CHANGELOG for FlatCAM Evo beta

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19.06.2024

fixed Issues #49. Path mismatch for SVG icons -> missing checkboxes fixed as suggested by Stefan Bruens, by adapting the paths in the stylesheets files (dark and light)

31.03.2024

added the ability to use no path optimization
camblib.generate_from_geometry_2(): added the usage for different kinds of path optimizations set in the Preferences -> Geometry
some minor objects name refactoring

29.03.2024

continue refactoring methods from the appMain
appIO: fixed an encoding error when trying to open a DXF file

28.03.2024

major refactoring: started to move the methods connected to the Edit menu to their own class to clean up the App mega class

20.02.2024

Punch Gerber Plugin: fixed issues with iterating ovr a MultiPolygon
GerberObject: fixed Gerber merging functionality
Film Plugin: fixed error on generation of positive film with punched holes due of the aperture of type "REG" (copper plane / region)

11.01.2024

Paint Plugin: fixed an issue where a Gerber object cannot be painted using the Single Polygon selection correctly because it painted the whole geometry
Geo Editor: improving the selection and deletion - work in progress

7.01.2024

Milling Plugin: when an object has a "tools_mill_tooldia" property set as an object option it is used to set the Tool Dia field

6.01.2024

NCC Plugin: make sure to use the CutZ value set in Preferences NCC Tool section

5.01.2024

Follow Plugin: added more parameters: simplification and union
Follow Plugin: the resulting LineString geometries are now merged together to minimize the number of lines

3.01.2024

Geo Editor -> Simplification Sub-tool: fixed an issue when calculating vertexes number

16.12.2023

when tabs are set as not detachable, double_clicking the Plot_Area tab will toggle the notebook area visibility
fixed the Full Screen issue with not remembering the toolbar's state before full screen event

6.12.2023

Paint Tool: fixed the calculation of object bounds
camlib: updated the method used to calculate the extrapolated lines for the laser_lines method: camlib.fill_with_lines()
Drilling and Milling Tools: added support to choose the GCode for turning On the laser

25.11.2023

some names are updated
made sure that when a new project is created that the levelling grid shapes are deleted
some code optimization and code refactoring
Levelling Tool: added parameter (in Preferences too) to control the probe tip diameter which is reflected in the probing location mark diameter
Levelling Tool: when adding a Grid probing and the avoidance of Excellon is used, now the probing locations will be offset enough so the probing is not done in the Excellon holes

14.11.2023

trying to solve an idiosyncrasy of MacOS which do not allow modifying the main menu in a non-main thread which is done after editing an object

29.10.2023

when failing to save a project make sure that we can still close the app correctly
Milling Tool: when generating CNCJob's from a single_geometry type fixed an issue getting bad bounds values (Inf) which did not allow saving the project that included such a CNCJob object due of failing to serialize such an object
fixed some redundancy in some RegEx expressions
minor fixes

19.10.2023

fixed preprocessors issue where the start GCode was not added due of trying to access an object that did not exist (because its name was not changed to reflect the changes in other parts on the app)
updated the requirements.txt file
added qdarktheme package into the code
upgraded code so the app will work with Python 3.12

27.09.2023

Gerber parser: added support for obsoleted G55 command before a D03 (flash)

23.09.2023

fixed aperture macros parse for Gerber files generated from KiCAD 7.0.7

6.07.2023

Isolation Plugin: reversed the milling direction between the conventional and climbing milling types
Isolation Plugin: code refactoring

5.07.2023

Excellon Editor: fixed crash when editing hole diameters in the Tool Table
Isolation Plugin: fixed some possible issues when using rest machining
Drag and Drop files works now only in the Notebook and in the Plot Tab
Gerber Parser: fixed a bug where a region is a MultiPolygon and failed because of changes in Shapely starting with version 2.0

4.07.2023

fixed a number of bugs reported in the issue #32 here: https://bitbucket.org/marius_stanciu/flatcam_beta/issues/32/crashes-on-close-random-crashes-that
Isolation Plugin: fixed some errors due of trying to get the is_empty property from a list (geometry that was flattened)
Gerber Editor: fixed issue with editing the rectangular aperture dimensions in the Tool Table (I used wrong parameter names to the Shapely box() method)

1.07.2023

NCC Plugin: fixed the determination of optimal tool
NCC Plugin: fixed a bug where when using the Rest Machining an error is issued due of trying to create a MultiPolygon having in the list another MultiPolygon; fixed by flattening the list

30.06.2023

NCC Plugin: fixed the Isolation operation mode
a number of methods were updated
modified some strings in regard to rest machining

29.06.2023

NCC Plugin: updates to fix a bug when doing copper clearing with Rest option

19.06.2023

added a new signal allowing printing messages in statusbar without polluting the Tcl Shell; to be used in the future for low-ranking messages

17.06.2023

NCC Plugin: modified the previous change and now the simplification action is much bigger reducing the number of coordinates by a factor of 20 (20 times less)
Paint Plugin: same as above
Ncc Plugin: added some more tooltips
Isolation Plugin: fixed some issues when using the Rest Machining option

16.06.2023

NCC Plugin: made a small optimization by adding a simplification in the clearing geometry

15.06.2023

a bit of optimization in camblib.clear_polygon() method
added the update of bounds for the TclCommands: Mirror, Scale, Offset, Skew, Buffer

12.06.2023

Geometry Editor: fixed the selected shapes width issue; now the selected shapes are thicker
Geometry Editor: no longer matter the order (top-bottom or bottom-top) of selection, now the last selected shape has the data updated in the UI
Geometry Editor: fixed the simplification tool to work on a selection of shapes

10.06.2023

Isolation Plugin and Isolate Tcl Command: optimized the isolation method

8.06.2023

Gerber Parser: minor changes, cleaning up the KiCAD junk lines if the Gerber file is made by KiCAD
Allowed the opening of certain types of damaged Gerber files (apertures not defines but used) but WARNINGS
NCC Plugin - fixed a minor bug that crashed the NCC Tcl Command; reported by @Aldin Halilovic on bitbucket

7.06.2023

updated in GUI Elements for FCButton, FCFrame and FCLabel custom widgets adding an stylesheet optimization method

5.06.2023

updated the FCButton and FCLabel custom widgets
Paint Plugin: fixed issues caused by the latest changes in the Shapely module
NCC Plugin: some changes in the method used by the Tcl Command
in Preferences, added a control in the General -> GUI Settings to control the font size for the entire application; require an app restart
Sub Tool: fixed an issue due of an incorrect parameter for a QTimer start

31.05.2023

Pdf Import plugin: fixed an issue with assigning a wrong property to a Qtimer
Extract Plugin and Punch gerber Plugin: fixed a wrong build of the UI triggered even those tools where not launched yet
Pdf import Plugin: made sure that the keys in tools are integers
Pdf Import Plugin: added the source code to the imported Gerber file

25.05.2023

Geometry Editor: subtool Path: fixed issue of not registering the new click when using the Shift modifier
Geometry Editor: subtool Path: the coordinates displayed when using the Shift key modifier are the coordinates for the end of the line and not the mouse cursor
Geometry Editor: added some constraints in regards of the required selection before using some of the subTools

24.05.2023

for all Editors now there is a shortcut key (key "C") that will toggle the cursor data in case the cursor data is in the way
Geometry Editor: the Path tool now has a new behavior: when key modifier SHIFT is pressed and the Grid is OFF, when the line is drawn and it is near the 0, 45 and 90 degrees, in each quadrant, then the drawn line will follow the nearest target angle (0 or 45 or 90 degrees) allowing the drawing of straight lines.

19.05.2023

CutOut Plugin - fixed the manual adding of gaps
the selection shapes are now moved from Move Plugin to AppMain
Fiducials Plugin: fixed errors due of changes in the Shapely module
Fiducials Plugin: fixed an error where in Basic mode the soldermask opening is added incorrectly
Film Tool: fixed the export to PNG to be done at correct DPI

17.05.2023

Thieving Plugin: fixed errors due of changes in the Shapely module

16.05.2023

NCC Plugin: fixed the Standard method of copper clearing (both normal and with Rest machining)

14.05.2023

Isolation Plugin, NCC Plugin and Find Optimal Plugin: fixed not finding the optimal tool diameter (the one that will isolate completely a Gerber object)
NCC Plugin - minor code refactoring

05.05.2023

fixed an erroneous opening for a Gerber file generated by KiCAD 6.0.11, due of a rectangular flash being eliminated by the global unary_union operation
replaced some type hints with using the Union

15.04.2023

changed the shapely imports a bit according to the specifications of Shapely 2.0
changed the requirements.txt file to reflect the need for at least Shapely in version 2.0
some code leftovers are commented
when parsing a new Gerber object, I am "preparing" each geometry added therefore making the Gerber object geometry possible faster to process

08.04.2023

fixed some really long strings in the Geometry Editor toolbar actions
modified the paint and buffer icons
optimized the editor menu/toolbar action names
major change: from now on the only dimensional units available are those from ISO METRIC system
minor name changes

22.03.2023

in the toolbars now there is text under the icons (which can be turned off from the toolbar context menu)
the GUI state is now saved and restored through QSettings

13.03.2023

in Tcl Commands: export_dxf and export_gerber, fixed a mistake in declaring a wrong name of a required option
in Tcl Command set_path added an optional parameter which allows to create a directory where path is to be set, if the directory does not exist

6.03.2023

fixed some possible issues due of changes in version 2.0 of Shapely
removed the import * statement from most of the app

01.03.2023

in Tool Milling made sure that deleting the only tool will not crash the application
added a new parameter in Preferences to control the number of processes created by the Pool() - more processes better performance but also a lot of memory consumed
made sure that the display of messages in the Status Bar is done asap

19.01.2023

added a new method for bilinear interpolation

18.01.2023

in Autolevelling Plugin made sure that when adding manual probe points mouse dragging with the right button is not counted as end of adding operation
in Autolevelling Plugin, when adding manual probe points, added an option that prevent adding a probe point within a drill hole of an Excellon object that is plotted on canvas
in Autolevelling Plugin, preventing the add of a probe point on Excellon hole checkbox is not disabled except for the Manual mode
in Autolevelling Plugin, the status of some checkboxes (avoid Excellon holes and plot points) is stored between app restarts
in Isolation Plugin, added an convenience shortcut button to launch the Milling Plugin.

16.01.2023

fixed a decoding error in the Excellon parser
some PEP8 fixes
fixed the Voronoi generation in the Autolevelling Tool (removed the Foronoi package due of issues and now using the embedded functionality from Shapely)
fixed the enable of Levelling Tool only for CNCJob objects that were made from geometries that were segmented

15.01.2023

PEP8 changes

19.11.2022

added a 'return' button when a fatal error is encountered allowing the user to continue the work
fixed a crash in Milling Plugin when trying to mill slots that do not have drills in the same file

9.11.2022

when changing the style for the decorations from Preferences, now change is applied immediately

7.11.2022

in Drilling Plugin fixed a situation when having tools with the same diameter will get them multiplied by the number of those tools

6.11.2022

if PikePDF module is not available then show an error but run the app (currently, for Python 3.11 is the only module not available)

19.10.2022

added a hack so the Gerber files from Allegro 17.2 (which do not follow the Gerber specifications) can be loaded
fixed an issue when exporting huge SVG files from the Film Tool by adding a fallback and using a custom XML parser with the 'huge_tree' option set

2.10.2022

really small UI change in 2-Sided Plugin

27.09.2022

in Milling Plugin, for Excellon target, re-enabled the control over the Feedrate X-Y parameter

25.09.2022

added a new setting in Preferences ("3D compatibility") controlled by a checkbox. If the checkbox is checked then multithreading is disabled for the 3D mode (lower performance but perhaps more compatibility, especially for Linux) - this was done from the research done by Matti Eiden on bitbucket
small fix in ToolCutout Plugin when trying to set a checkbox state with a float value which still works in Windows but creates issues in other OS's

10.09.2022

hided the main UI on application quit to create a user experience of a shutdown without lag
added a way to terminate QThreads safely by waiting; should be much safer
made sure that the ArgsThread class receive the signal to stop
made sure that on application shutdown, all workers will quit before the actual exit
added insurance that the QThread where the ArgThread class is running, really receive the interruption request and it is finished

1.09.2022

added a new feature for Geometry export-as-SVG, the ability to export only the paths (outlines); the new feature is controlled from a new parameter in Preferences -> Geometry -> Export

1.08.2022

fixed some bugs in Geometry Editor in regards of Buffer Tool
fixed some issues in the Cutout Plugin by adding more checks
fixed issues when loading files by dragging in the UI (caused by recent code refactoring)

26.05.2022

upgraded the UI of Region sub-tool in the Gerber Editor

22.05.2022

in Gerber Editor upgraded the PadAdd GUI
in Gerber Editor upgraded the PadArray GUI
in Gerber Editor upgraded the Track sub-tool GUI
in Gerber Editor upgraded the Simplification sub-tool GUI

21.05.2022

more code refactored in the appMain.py
added properties for the mouse position and mouse clicked position (and setters) and cleaned up the code regarding this data

20.05.2022

small fix for a bug that interfere with running the 2D graphic mode
refactored the code for the file registration and for the keywords update into its own class to make the main class smaller
when creating new files the file names are added to the beginning of the keywords list for the usage of Qt auto-completer

19.05.2022

added a new setting that control the selection shape creation, in the Preferences. If the checkbox Selection Outline is checked then the selection shape is only an outline.
fixed the Move Plugin to use the new setting of outline for the selection shape

18.05.2022

added some safeguards in Cutout Plugin
fixed the Toggle Grid Lines functionality for dark mode

17.05.2020

in Cutout Plugin added ability to use the margin (full range of values: negative, zero, positive) when applying the cutout over a Geometry source object
updated the Turkish language strings (by Mehmet Kaya)
in Cutout Plugin added an extra attempt to solve the issue with creating invalid geometries
the ArgThread class is no longer launched in case of Linux systems due of crashes

16.05.2022

finished upgrading the UI in Geometry Editor sub-tools
fixed an issue that left some parts of the Geometry Editor UI linked to the Move context menu action
started to lay ground for upgrading the UI in the Gerber Editor
fixed and upgraded the Buffer sub-tool in the Gerber Editor
fixed adding same aperture multiple times

15.05.2022

fixed the Tcl command drillcncjob so it can use positive or zero depth of cuts
fixed the Drilling Plugin such that when the Z_CUt (depth of cut) is positive value then the up-to-zero feature will not be used

13.05.2022

fixed the join-as-gerber functionality

12.05.2022

changed the syntax highlighting for the AppTextEditor such that the strings are not color marked
changed the syntax highlighting such that for a dark theme the colors are inverted
made sure that in the AppTextEditor, when a line is highlighted then the text foreground color is black such that the writing can be read over the line highlight

11.05.2022

fixed a crash when creating a Document object due of changes in Qt6 (missing QtGui.Qt)
in Document object fixed the issue with not setting selection color when in a dark theme (essentially got rid of using QPalette)
in dark theme stylesheet changed the indent of the QCheckBox (and in Radio buttons too)
updated the FClabel widget with some more properties
updated the hack to make sure that the Editor sub-tools do not lose the stylesheet of the background
updated the disabled project item color default value for the dark theme
in Document Object UI - upgraded the UI and fixed the colors setting
some refactoring and updated the application strings
updated Romanian translation

10.05.2022

upgraded the Geometry Editor main UI
upgraded the FCButton widget (and made it used everywhere instead of the QPushButton) so it can have the color and font weight properties settable
styled the border for the QToolButton (for dark mode)

9.05.2022

fixed an issue in the Paint Plugin where some polygons are discarded in a Geometry object made out of an imported SVG
fixed an issue in the SVG parser where when parsing a path and getting multiple polygons will generate an invalid compound polygon (the polygons other than the first are seen as interiors even if they are not inside the first)
made sure that clicking the text in the InfoBar will also toggle the Tcl Shell display as is the click on the Infobar itself

6.05.2022

minor changes to one of the custom widgets
added an example of custom titlebar - still needs a lot of work

5.05.2022

changed the activity GIF's for the dark theme
changed some of the dark theme icons to the red color
made sure that the draw color in Editors is inverted for the dark mode
added a hack so the dark stylesheet for QWidget is reapplied if that Qwidget is removed (I don't know why it is lost in the first time)
when exiting an Editor with a sub-tool active the cursor data display feature is removed
updated the GCode header
fixed the 'light' theme paint icon name
removed the shortcut for the PDF Import Plugin (Ctrl+Q) since it interfered with the MacOS usage

4.05.2020

some changes to the dark mode stylesheet to make it look better
darkened the text color for the dark theme in order to make it easier on the eyes
in Distance Plugin, when using the big cursor, the cursor colors are fixed to work for the dark mode too
for dark mode disabled hover highlight on the Status Bar
more changes for dark theme

2.05.2022

in Excellon Editor, Copy sub-tool, added UI and ability to copy as array
fixed an issue in Geometry Editor, Copy sub-tool where when the geometry copied numbers over the set limit then the copy as array is incorrect
in Geometry Editor fixed an angle issue in the Circle sub-tool
in Geometry Editor made sure that when using the Move sub-tool if there is no shape selected, when clicking to get selection that point is also used as reference for the Move command

1.05.2022

fixed persistence of view status for the coordinates toolbars
fixed broken selection in Excellon Editor
in Geometry Editor updated the Rectangle Plugin such that when selecting different corners now the drawn rectangle will have those
in Geometry Editor updated the Circle Plugin such that when the Radius parameters are not linked then an ellipse is drawn

30.04.2022

in Excellon Editor, Slot Plugin, made sure that once the Editor is active any change for this plugin parameters will be kept until editor is exit or that parameter is changed again
in Excellon Editor, Drill Array Plugin, upgraded the UI and work in progress for the features
prettified some GUI elements (some of those that are used in the popup messages)
in Excellon Editor, finished the upgrade work on the Drill Array Plugin
in Excellon Editor, finished the upgrade work on the Slot Array Plugin
in Excellon Editor, finished the upgrade work on the Resize Plugin
minor changes in the Excellon Editor -> Resize Plugin
updated the language strings

29.04.2022

In Excellon Editor, finished updating the Drill Plugin and Slot Plugin
fixed a bug in the excellon export method, regarding the slots processing

28.04.2022

in Isolation Plugin made sure that the last displayed message is the warning, in the case of using tool validation and the tool is not validated
some more work in the Excellon Editor - Drill adding
some fixes in the image loader when clicking the an image that is in the list of previous loaded files
a small fix in the SVG parser
added a new Tcl command that is returning the name of the active object ('get_active') to accompany the 'set_active' command
a small fix for the 2d graphic mode by replacing the q5agg matplotlib backend with the qtagg backend which should work with the Qt6
in Calculators Plugin fixed the Electroplating Calculator to work as expected and removed the redundant button 'Calculate'

26.04.2022

activated the 'View Source' option in the project menu context menu for the Geometry objects
in Image Import plugin now the created objects have the 'source_file' attribute with content
working in the Excellon Editor - wip

25.04.2022

deleted the Calibration Plugin (made redundant by changes in other Plugins)
some strings were updated
in SolderPaste Plugin fixed an issue when creating a new project with this plugin open
updated the application strings
changed again the FClabel GUI element to allow font size change from a class parameter and modified the way the weight is set
small UI change in the Image Import Plugin

24.04.2022

some fixes in the Import Image Plugin
made sure that the CNCJob objects made out of non-multi-toolGeometries are plotted correctly
in SolderPaste Plugin fixed an issue where the new parameter 'margin' was taken from the current UI and applied to all tools (nozzles); now each nozzle use his 'margin' parameter
in SolderPaste Plugin make sure that the preprocessor is set the same for all tools (nozzles) whenever is modified
added 2 new preprocessor files for the SolderPaste Plugin (GRBL and MARLIN)
in SolderPaste Plugin made sure that the start GCode is not added for each nozzle but only once at start
in SolderPaste Plugin added a new parameter: 'Feedrate Rapids' which will set the feedrate for the fast moves as opposed with the previously used G0 command. This allows to fine tune the fast moves to reduce the vibrations

23.04.2022

fixed some leftovers due of recent changes in the theme management
added a new feature (new modules are required) in the Image Plugin (Menu -> File -> Import -> Import Image) that allow tracing images. This may allow engraving pictures.
started to add UI's for the Excellon Editor Tools (really early work)

20.04.2022

in Solderpaste Plugin fixed the GCode generation; make sure that if no object is selected then the first Gerber object is autoselected
in Solderpaste Plugin fixed the CNCJob plotting
in Solderpaste Plugin added a new parameter 'Margin' which allows reducing how much solderpaste is added and therefore adding a space between the solderpaste and the pad boundary
all CNCJob objects generated by the Solderpaste plugin now have the GCode saved as source_code which can be saved also from the CNCJob object context menu, and edited
updated some custom widgets in the GUI elements such that the scrolling in the Preferences can be done without blocking on some of the widgets
remade how the Preferences Tab is constructed such that now is made on demand for each section (tab) therefore making it faster to load (once a section is loaded - by clicking its tab - it will not be reloaded in the current session)
a fix for the latest change in the Preferences Tab
some changes in the Geometry Editor UI's and in some cases, fixes for the right-click close action

19.04.2022

fixed and prettified the 'Light' theme
some more fixes for the 'Light' theme
made sure that the 'default' theme gets the 'stronger' colors

18.04.2022

in Geometry Editor, in Copy Tool added the 2D copy-as-array feature therefore finishing this editor plugin upgrade
updated the FCLabel widget
replaced all the FCLabel widgets that have color HTML with the new FCLabel widget that uses parameters for 'color' and weight
minor changes
added a way to allow patching FCLabel widget colors for certain cases without having to pass them each instance
some changes in the theme selection, added that the default situation is where no theme is applied
some string changes

17.04.2022

in Geometry Editor, in Copy Tool - work in progress (adding utility geometry for the array mode)
in Geometry Editor, in Copy Tool - linear array utility geometry is working
in Geometry Editor, Copy Tool, finished the copy-as-array feature except the 2D array type which was not implemented yet

16.04.2022

in Geometry Editor, in the Simplification Tool made sure that the selected shape is highlighted
in Geometry Editor, in Rectangle Tool added a modification mode where a selected shape (using the SHIFT + click combo) while the tool is active, can be modified
in Geometry Editor, in Move Tool and Copy Tool added UI's, move projection and cursor data. Also now require acquiring reference point before the action
in Geometry Editor, in Rectangle Tool added cursor data
in Geometry Editor, in Circle Tool added UI, cursor data, radius projection and ability to add ellipses
in Geometry Editor, in Copy Tool remade the UI and started to add the support for copy-as-array (work in progress)

15.04.2022

in Geometry Editor moved the simplification feature in its own Editor Tool (plugin)
in Geometry Editor the default draw color is now black
in Geometry Editor, the Rectangle Editor Tool allows creation of rectangles with the mouse but projecting the length and width dimensions by typing a number (the choice of setting the length or width is based on the direction of the mouse move after setting the first point)
in Geometry Editor, the Rectangle Editor Tool has now Ui which allows adding a rectangle by parameters

14.04.2022

in Geometry Editor added a new feature. While drawing a 'Path' now the user can project a direction by moving the mouse cursor in a certain direction and after that by typing a number or an arithmetic simple expression, a line segment will be drawn in that direction with the specified length from the last point
in Geometry Editor for the Path tool but only when using the 3D engine graphic mode, the mouse cursor is followed by position data
in Geometry Editor for the Path tool fixed an issue with path projection when changing the grid size while the Path tool is active
in Geometry Editor, for Path tool, added UI that close on end of the Path tool action; it displays the projected length which now is kept for as long as it is wanted, allowing for path automation in case of repetitive lengths
solved a ZeroDivisionError exception in the Geometry Editor -> Path Tool
in Geometry Editor, for Path tool, added the ability to differentiate between creating a multidigit number for the projection and starting a new number (for a new segment)
added ability to control the color of the project items for the dark theme too
in Geometry Editor, for the Polygon Tool added the UI, the length projection and the cursor data, just like for the Path Tool
made sure that some menu entries in the canvas popup menu are hidden when entering into an Editor and restored on exit

13.04.2022

fixed the display of lines in Distance Plugin when using 'snap to' together with 'multipoint'
in Geometry Editor - update (some reformatting and adding shape data)
in Geometry Editor - fixed the Explode tool to work on the result of adding Text geometry
all the Geometry Editor plugins are moved inside another folder and the UI's are moved into their own class
in Geometry Editor made sure that the MultiPolygon shapes (like those made by the Text Tool) will update the coordinates in the UI

7.04.2022

refactoring code in Distance Plugin and making sure that the measurements are done correctly - work in progress

6.04.2022

some fixes to the Tcl commands contribution from Ali Khalil

5.04.2022

fixed Distance plugin grid snap restore

3.04.2022

in Cutout Plugin exposed the any_cutout_handler() method and made sure that the gaps parameter case does not matter
some reformatting and class rename
when clicking the coordinates toolbars in the status bar now the Distance Plugin is shown and if already displayed, it is closed (toggle action)

2.04.2022

in Markers Plugin, added a numeric mode
in Fiducials Plugin, for manual mode: added utility geometry and the ability to use a big cursor
minor fix in Fiducials Plugin
make sure that replotting objects is done only for enabled objects

1.04.2022

in Markers Plugin, for the manual mode added the choice to use a big cursor when manual placing markers

31.03.2022

changed the app main icons, hopefully they are more visible on black backgrounds than the ones that FlatCAM has
make sure that the state of the workspace is saved correctly on change
refactored the imports in the Plugins, moved almost all imports in the AppTool file
fixed a number of issues, mostly leftovers from moving the UI of a Plugin in its own class
fixed some bugs in the Punch Gerber plugin
fixed some bugs where the 'pool' parameter was not passed when creating shapes collections (in 3D graphic mode); I wonder how it worked until now
added a new feature in the Isolation Plugin: now for all the isolation Geometry objects this plugin can do a supplementary simplification of the geometry using the tolerance parameter defined in the General Parameters. This should lead to a reduced number of tool lifts when doing corners
fixed aperture marking in Extract Plugin
in Extract Plugin if no Gerber object is selected then the first Gerber object in the project list is selected (if any)
in Punch Gerber Plugin if no Gerber object is selected then the first Gerber object in the project list is selected (if any); fixed aperture marking in Punch Gerber Plugin
in Punch Gerber and Extract plugins, clean up the aperture markings on Plugin exit

30.03.2022

a minor fix in the Plotcanvas() class
fixed the OR-tools path optimization (it required now a cast to int when creating the distances' matrix)
in Distance Plugin made sure that the grid snapping restore is working properly (previously it always restored it to the ON state)
the HUD display is no longer default active on new installations
in Distance Plugin: added a new way to display the angle (angles between 181° and 359° are subtracted from 360°)
in Distance Plugin: "snap to center" feature now works outside the Editors too (for Gerber object pads and Excellon object drill holes)
some minor changes in Distance Plugin
when changing workspace orientation fixed leaving behind the old frame on the canvas
improved how the PDF printing works: now the Excellon files are always on top and from the rest of objects the first selected is on top, below the Excellons
when doing PDF printing and no object is selected now the default action is to print everything that fits within the workspace
when doing PDF printing, the cncjob objects are prioritized and placed on top of Gerber objects

29.03.2022

added ability to change the mouse cursor color on the fly
in Distance Plugin made sure that the 'big cursor' (when is used) is black (visible in most situations)
in Distance Plugin, for the 2D graphic mode activated the utility line
in Distance Plugin, fixed the Snap to center feature to work as intended

28.03.2022

in Distance Plugin added the ability to use a big cursor; not finished: when the grid is off it is not displayed
in Distance Plugin finished the 'big cursor' feature
in the Film Plugin fixed an error which triggered an unwanted 'length' scaling

27.03.2022

trying to make loading a project an easier task for the application
fixed toggling the visibility for the CNCJob objects (was in reverse to the expected state)

24.03.2022

refactoring names for some classes

22.03.2022

fixed the GCode generation such that (for milling Geometries) the choice of using (or not) and end position is respected
for hpgl code generation made sure that the first travel line is not marked as a cut line when using a toolchange event

21.03.2022

optimized the UI for the CNCJob object
when loading a Gcode file in the app now the application makes an attempt in adding information's such that the CncJob UI works correctly; if so information's are not found then assumptions are made. Only for GCode that is detected as made from an Excellon object
updated Turkish language strings by Mehmet Kaya

20.03.2022

added a last resort option to load old projects; the result is not guaranteed if the differences are too great
updated the code in FlatCAMCNCJob object such that more attributes will be serialized in order for loading a project correctly when it has CNCJob objects
another fix to make the app save correctly the CNCJob objects when saving a project
in all text editors, when writing in the Find entry, all instances of typed chars will be selected
in all text editors, pressing Enter on Find Entry will search for next instance of the searched text (no longer for focus out)

19.03.2022

fixed some errors for when loading a saved project
updated the app translation strings to match the ones in the sources, for all languages
updated the Romanian language (native)
updated the Spanish language (Google-translated)
added a way to load older projects (made before recent changes)

17.03.2022

fixed issues in the Scale feature of the Film Plugin
in the Scale feature of the Film plugin added ability to scale by a length amount

16.03.2022

fixed an exception encountered on saving projects due of getting a "circular error" on serializing the project objects

15.03.2022

fixed an issue in Calculators Plugin that could crash the app, in the Electroplating section
changed estimated time for new release

13.03.2022

fixed issues when saving the project due of changed serializable attributes

12.03.2022

added to the application an older contribution by another user: Columnar Layout for the Preferences Tab. It can be set in Preferences -> General -> GUI section
installed an eventFilter for the Sliders in the Preferences tab such that only if a slider has focus the mouse wheel will change its value
in Preferences made sure that the changes of the scrollbar no longer interfere with signalling changes
minor UI changes (added some parenting so some pop-up messages will be centered in the UI as opposed to the screen)

11.03.2022

added a new feature: now in the context menu (and main menu -> Edit) there is a new command that allow to move a selection of objects at specified numeric coordinates (either absolute or relative to current position)
made sure that on canvas context menu pop-up, some actions are disabled if there is no object selected
made sure that on canvas context menu pop-up, if 'Properties' action is clicked and there is no object selected then the Properties tab is selected
in the Grid Toolbar, the Grid Y entry is now by default hidden and shown only when there is a need (grid gap link is disabled) in order to maximize the status bar space availability
in Distance Plugin made sure that the 0.0 value for the angle is displayed
some UI changes (startup splash image changed)
changed the look for the Location/Jump To widgets; it is now like a cross being more relevant visually
the Numeric Move now can take only a parameter instead of a tuple but only if the comma is added, the not added parameter will be assumed 0.0. Therefore ",10" will move to (0, 10).
added a new splash image for the case of using a dark theme

10.03.2022

fixed an issue where using the 'G' shortcut key in Editors will not toggle the grid snap
fixed an issue in the Excellon Editor where selecting the drills did not highlight them but instead made them invisible (although the selection still worked)
fixed an issue in the Gerber Editor where selecting one shape will auto-select all the shapes made with the same aperture
fixed multiple issues in the App objects related to wrong usage of self.obj_options attribute instead of self.app.options attribute
remade the Film Plugin such that the skew feature is now done in length units as opposed with the previous usage of angles
refactored some big methods from the Film Plugin
skew feature in Film Plugin now have multiple options. skew can be done by length, by angle and by ratio (factor)
fixed an issue when importing GCode which made the loaded GCode object un-plotable
fixed Film Plugin not using the set value in Preferences for the skew type
more work in Film Plugin, in the ratio skew feature
fixed a typo in the Distance Plugin which made that the Delta Y value was always the same as Delta X value
made sure that the app starts with toolbar's locked
fixed an issue when creating a new project (due of recent massive changes)

9.03.2022

added a few new GUI custom widgets
removed the status bar Tcl Shell toggleable QLabel. Now the Tcl Shell is toggled by clicking the Message in the Status bar

24.02.2022

some changes to the Preferences

23.02.2022

in Gerber Editor: in Eraser tool now the intersected shapes are stored properly such that when exporting the edited Gerber, it is done properly

22.02.2022

in Gerber Editor: if the aperture size is 0 then an aperture code 0 is added (if it does not exist yet)
in Gerber Editor: when the Eraser tool is used, after it is applied if some geometries elements are empty, they are now removed
some fixes in remembering the last save location and last open location
changes in the App options are now saved to the App defaults on app exit
in Gerber Editor fixed adding a new aperture with code 0
in Gerber Editor when the aperture size is 0.0 then automatically add a new aperture with code 0
in Gerber Editor -> Eraser tool: when deleting all geometry in an aperture then the aperture is deleted too

20.02.2022

fixed a minor error in the Gerber Editor which created a graphic glitch on shape selection
making the above fix accept few possibilities
updated the Turkish translation (by (Mehmet Kaya)
fixed an issue where the selected application translation language is not remembered as was selected and defaulting to English language
refactored code in Preferences section
added the wheels for a working pair of GDAL-Rasterio modules (python 3.10)
fixed an issue when trying to print an exception message
fixed an issue due of recent changes that made the application think that is run always for the first time; fixed not applying the selected language translation
some more code is refactored in the Preferences
the axis will now be drawn on the canvas as they were left in the previous run (just like the HUD and the Workspace)
for processors with less than 4 cores now the default number of workers is 1 (changed from 2)
some graphical settings go now directly to the defaults dictionary and will not pass through the options app dictionary

19.02.2022

updated the language strings files to the latest changes

18.02.2022

completed the refactoring of object options property to obj_options in preprocessors too
made sure that the CNCJob UI building no longer have issues with table items added from an already existing table
fixed CNCJob UI showing all tools in the Tools Table even when only some tools were selected for processing
fixed the drillcncjob Tcl Command to work in the case of drilling a selection of tools instead of all, with toolchange inactive
in Excellon Object UI, Advanced Mode, added a Tools Table context menu allowing to copy the tool diameters in the selected rows to clipboard
the application now uses only the default values from the app.options dict, the app.defaults dict holds the definitive default values
fixed some outstanding issues from the PyQt6 port
PEP8 fixes
minor fixes
updated the saving of Preferences to update the self.options too: the Apply action will update the self.options but the Save action will save the updated preferences to the file on disk

16.02.2022

refactoring all the references to object options property to obj_options to make a difference with the application options property

15.02.2022

fixed an issue with the moving shape when creating an exclusion area
added ability to copy the coordinates of the exclusion area with the context menu actions in the Exclusion areas table found in the Milling/Drilling plugins
in Tcl command add_polygon added ability to use -p_coords optional parameter where the value of this argument should be a list of tuple coordinates
minor fixes in the Milling Plugin
if Start Z parameter is set in Edit -> Preferences now there is no extra lift GCode because it is replaced by the startz GCode (except for laser preprocessors)
if Start Z parameter is set in Edit -> Preferences now there is no extra lift GCode because it is replaced by the startz GCode (except for laser preprocessors) - for Drilling Plugin too
minor debug log message change

13.02.2022

fixed issue when doing a custom origin set

11.02.2022

a new feature that when selecting an object in the Project Tab, that object is redrawn over the other objects, in top position. Feature controlled from Preferences -> Gerber -> General.
made sure that the new feature of redrawing Gerber on top is not activated when that Gerber object is disabled
added ability to turn off the outline plotting for Gerber objects (will speed up the plotting but the plotting visual quality will degrade); controlled from Preferences -> Gerber -> General
plotting visuals in 3d graphic mode will no longer create some unnecessary lists
made sure that the redraw_on_top_on_project_click works properly and only on mouse click release in the Project list
made sure that the redraw_on_top_on_project_click works only on single object selections
redraw_on_top_on_project_click works only for left mouse clicks on the Project objects list

10.02.2022

added a new preprocessor: default_laser
in the app added a new tool type: "L" (laser) which when selected will autoselect the default_laser preprocessor in Milling Plugin

7.02.2022

fixed some issues when exporting Excellon objects

2.02.2022

fixed some issue regarding Milling Plugin, importing DXF file as Geometry

1.02.2022

fixed the cncjob Tcl command: forgot to pop the arguments that are not recognized by the non-multigeo handler
fixed the multi-color feature in the Gerber object UI
fixed the marking of apertures in Gerber object UI and in Extract plugin
minor changes in cncjob Tcl command
updated the offset and scale Tcl commands to work on a selection of objects
minor changed in camlib.py regarding the self.check_zcut() method setting the self.z_cut to 'fail'
upgraded the mirror Tcl command to work on a selection of objects and also fixed a plot issue
upgraded the skew Tcl command to work on a selection of objects and added the ability to skew not only in degrees but also by distances
fixed some issues in panelize and cncjob Tcl commands
reversed the mirroring axis in the mirror Tcl command to be consistent with the action in GUI
solved some more exceptions in the cncjob Tcl command

31.02.2022

fixed all the laser preprocessors to work correctly and the resulting GCode to be plotted
made sure that when drilling and milling with a laser preprocessor the first move is not done with the laser on
fixed a minor UI glitch in the CNCJob UI
made sure that the drillcncjob and cncjob Tcl commands will use the -las_power parameter to set the laser power when using a preprocessor with laser in its name
now the verbose log parameter from the Preferences can take 3 values (0, 1, 2). Value = 0 means that the logging is disabled (mostly), value = 1 means that the logging is only in console and value = 3 means that the logging is now displayed in the Tcl box
most of the logging (except in the Editors) is now done by the AppLogging class
made sure that for laser preprocessors, the laser is always turned off completely at the end of a job
added a new script example
improved the quit application process; now the quit_app Tcl command works properly
another fix for Shapely 2.0 deprecation warning
yet another fix for Shapely 2.0 deprecation warnings
updated the join_geometry and join_excellon Tcl commands format to follow the format of other commands
updated the isolate, cutout and geocutout Tcl commands and now they yield multigeo Geometry objects
fixed an issue in panelize Tcl command where some parameters (spacing_columns and spacing_rows where forced into integers where correct was to keep them as floats)
fixed a performance issue in panelize Tcl command: when panelizing a Geometry object the total solid_geometry was calculated for each tool, but it was enough to be calculated once
yet another fix for a Shapely 2.0 deprecation warning
minor change in the way the app quits

30.01.2022

refactored the Isolation Plugin class
some more work on the Isolation plugin
fixed more issues in the ncc and paint Tcl commands (missing seg_x and seg_y keys)
fixed not adding the feedrate code in drillcncjob Tcl command
fixed crash when trying to do a select all and there are app Scripts present
updated the drillcncjob Tcl command to make a script exit in case of an error
in drillcncjob Tcl command added the usage of RTree path optimization and made it the default choice
finished the UI for adding a new parameter that is used in conjunction with the laser preprocessors: laser minimum power parameter which should help in doing a full power up/down cycle (should prolong the lifetime for the laser diode)
fixed some UI issues for the Milling and Drilling plugins when using a laser preprocessor
finished implementing the new feature that add a new parameter laser minimum power for the Drillin, Milling Plugins and for the cncjob and drillcncjob Tcl commands:
modified all the preprocessors that are for laser to use the new parameter: laser minimum power
fixed the drillcncjob Tcl command to use the parameters: endz and endxy

29.01.2022

upgraded/fixed the Panelize Tcl command
added a new preprocessor for Marlin that has movements on the Z axis named Marlin_laser_Z
cleaned up Marlin preprocessors
in the panelize, cutout and geocutout Tcl commands updated the error strings and made sure that if an error occur then a potential script execution in chain is aborted
updated the new Tcl command: now it has an argument -keep_scripts that when True, will keep the loaded scripts in the new project
fixed some issues in the ncc Tcl command
fixed some issues in the paint Tcl command
minor description update for export_gcode Tcl command

28.01.2022

in Tcl command geocutout fixed an error due of a no longer used parameter
in camlib.CNCjob.gcode_parse() fixed an assumption that a certain object is present: tool_data["tools_drill_toolchange"]
fixed an error in Drilling Plugin when selecting only a few tools and not all for drilling
fixed an error when building the UI for a CNCJob object created from drilling an Excellon object with a limited selection of tools
fixed an KeyError exception in the GCode Editor regarding the key: 'offset' not existing
updated the Tcl command drillcncjob to store the tool gcode and the parsed tool gcode in each tool data structure
updated the Tcl command drillcncjob description and examples

27.01.2022

made sure that for the Tcl command cncjob when using the dpp parameter (multi depth) the value is always positive, as expected
the cutout Tcl command creates a non-multigeo Geometry object

26.01.2022

fixed the Cutout plugin not working with Geometry objects that are made out of a LineString or LinearRing geometric elements
fixed the Cutout plugin for the rectangular cutout: the name of the resulting object is now correct if there is no extension in the source file
modified the bounding box utility feature in the Gerber Object UI to work with margin value of 0.0 and rounded corners
in Cutout plugin added the ability to create Manual Geometries with negative tool diameters
fix the Transform plugin, buffer functionality for Geometry objects such that the buffer with negative values will work by crating a buffer toward the interior of that geometry
minor changes
modified the bounding box utility feature in the Gerber Object UI to work with negative margin values
fixed some errors in the buffer and isolate Tcl commands
updated the camlib.Geometry.buffer() method

25.01.2022

minor changes
fixed the Follow plugin not marking correctly the resulting Geometry objet as a multigeo
fixed the Cutout plugin not working with Geometry objects that are made out of a MultiLineString
fixed the Milling Plugin who changed the tools information "tools_mill_multidepth" when changing from Basic to Advanced mode to the application default value but that defeated the change made by the Cutout plugin
fixed a Shapely 2.0 deprecation warning in the Report plugin

24.01.2022

fixed a syntax error in a call of the log.error()
trying to solve a 'circular reference' error when saving a project in Arch Linux

22.01.2022

improved the running of scripts when loading from GUI a script as a FlatCAM script
fixed the GRBL_laser preprocessor such that it does not have a Z move at the end of the job due of the fact that this preprocessor has moves only in the X-Y plane
in Milling Plugin made sure the preprocessors that have the laser_z in the name (case insensitive) have the ability to change the Z height at the end of the job (through End_Z parameter)
in Milling Plugin there was issue that did not showed the Z focus parameter for the GRBL_laser_Z preprocessor
updated the GRBL_laser_Z preprocessor to show more complete parameter information's in the header

21.01.2022

added a new Tcl command: buffer which will buffer the geometry of an object or will scale individually each geometry sub element
fixed the buffer() method for the Excellon objects (the resulting tool diameters were calculated less than the what was expected)
fixed the description for the new Tcl command buffer
fixed more issues with the cncjob Tcl command
made sure that some autocomplete keywords are correctly processed by the application; needs the delete of the preferences files

19.01.2022

updated the header of the preprocessors with 'laser' to show essential information's like some of them do not move on the Z axis
make sure that the laser postprocessor that do move on the Z axis (like 'GRBL_laser_Z') accept negative values for the Z focus
fixed issue in highlighter such that the keywords that have an underscore included are highlighted
rearranged the default keywords
fixed the generatecncjob() method default parameters to reflect new data structure names
in Geometry object the default self.options dictionary is updated with keys that reflect new data structure
added comments in the default preprocessors which will help other people create their own preprocessors
remade the Image Import plugin in an attempt to fix issues with the latest packages of Gdal and Rasterio but it looks that it is a conflict between the Rasterio 1.2.10, Gdal 3.4.1 and Shapely 1.8.0
made a hack so if the Image Import plugin can't be loaded due of dependencies errors the app will not crash but this plugin will no longer be available
fixed some issues due of the above hack

18.01.2022

in the 'cutout' Tcl command made sure that when an error pop-up then it returns with a "fail" string
made sure when running scripts from the interface that if a command will generate an error then the script is aborted
added a new Tcl command named 'list_pp' which lists the available preprocessor names

17.01.2022

fixed issues in the 'millslots' and 'milldrills' Tcl commands for the case when some parameters are not used
made sure that in Tcl commands deleting argument keys will not raise an error
fixed the 'isolate' Tcl command: updated to the new tools data structure elements
fixing an issue with not building the UI for the generated objects when running a script and then trying to enable/disable the plots
attempting to add a feature in the text editors to autoselect all words in a document that are the same as the one that was clicked
all the colors set in Preferences now have to be in the 8digits format RGBA (including the alpha channel as a suffix) - it is required to delete the current preferences files
fixed an issue with path conversion when using Windows-style of paths in the 'set_path' Tcl command
modified the 'new' Tcl command to be silent and to show no popup message

15.01.2022

All FCColorEntry GUI element instances have now a set icon for the title (and taskbar)
some changes to the FCMessageBox so the dark theme works ok on it
fixed the Tcl Command 'set_origin' to work for a specified location
updated the Tcl Command 'set_origin' to give the option to set the origin for a specified object
fixed the 'cncjob' Tcl Command to work in the new configuration of the data structures
fixed the 'save_project' Tcl Command - missing 'f_handlers' in the path

14.01.2022

made sure that new message boxes are always centered on the app UI by setting correctly the parent

13.01.2022

modified the FCMessageBox to have a border and a single color inside the box
made sure that the FCMessageBox taskbar icons and message are the correct ones
applied the FCMessageBox GUI elements everywhere; there is still a hack in appTranslation file where I needed to re-implement the class due of some circular imports errors

12.01.2022

subclassed the QMessageBox and created a new type of MessageBox that is frameless; started to use it throughout the app

11.01.2022

added an initial implementation of a dark theme using the pyqtqdarktheme (performance is not great and there are some artifacts); the theme is activated once the gray icons are checked in the Preferences
started to mod the qdarktheme to fit the application

10.01.2022

added a new feature in Preferences -> Gerber: a Layer Color Manager where the user can set and edit predefined colors for the Gerber objects: loading order matter
fixed and error in the Isolation Plugin when using the pad multi-isolations and area isolation simultaneously

9.01.2022

some UI changes in the Preferences: the clicked tab now have a distinctive color (green) and some strings are optimized
added in CNCJob preferences new preferences that allow compensation for the CNC bed skew/tilt (axes not being square one to another)
all pre-processors are altered such they can adjust the gcode to use the compensation values set in Preferences -> CNC-Job section
fixed a Gerber parser issue shown by Gerber files generated by Autotrax DEX ECAD software: if the last operation before a region was a flash D03 then at the beginning of the region a flash was added with the previous aperture

8.01.2021

in Isolation Plugin fixed the issue with clicking the header not toggling all tools rows
in Isolation Plugin fixed an issue in the reset_fields() method

6.01.2022

modified the 'laser-lines' method in the Paint Plugin such that the rounded part of a painted trace is painted too in the case that the trace width is much higher than the clearing tool diameter
some changes in the Excellon object suggessted by an user: Karl-Heinz
added a donation link (some people wanted it there so...)

5.01.2022

in Paint Plugin fixed the method 'laser-lines' for the case when the painted Gerber file has square shape apertures

24.12.2021

in Milling Plugin made sure that the UI is updated correctly when changing the type of target object depending on the Basic/Advanced mode

23.12.2021

in Milling Plugin working on milling Excellon holes by painting them from the center
removed display of some logs in Tcl Shell (when in Verbose mode) when parsing the Gerber files
fixed a double application of milling offset when having geometries with multiple tools
finished the mill-excellon feature in the Milling Tool; milling will be done progressively from the hole center toward the edge

16.12.2021

in Milling Plugin fixed the toolchange_xy and end_xy parameters not being used

9.12.2021

small optimization when deleting all objects (creating a new project)

8.12.2021

fixed some more Shapely 2.0 deprecation warnings
fixed a message bug in the AppMain

29.11.2021

some issues fixed that were left behind from porting to PyQt6
trying to solve differently RuntimeError exceptions that randomly popup due of wrapped C++ objects being deleted by attempting to create a new UI for the objects

27.11.2021

fixed a bug in the Gerber Editor in the Move command

26.11.2021

in Follow Plugin made sure that the notebook is disabled until the user finish (or cancel) the operation when using the area type of 'follow'

23.11.2021

added a few protections against RuntimeError exceptions that randomly popup due of wrapped C++ objects being deleted

22.11.2021

in AppTextEditor made some changes (added some placeholders and a message popup when reaching the end of document)
when viewing GCode the Find field can now keep the focus
fixed the Travelling Salesman algorithm such that it does not add duplicated points that are next to each other
when building the UI for the CNCJob first clear the CNCJob Tools Table

21.11.2021

updated the language strings
updated the Italian (Massimiliano Golfetto) and Turkish (Mehmet Kaya) translations
fixed a bug in Panelize Plugin where the Geometry objects could not be panelized
fixed some more Shapely 2.0 deprecation warnings in the Panelize Plugin

20.11.2021

fixed another issue when using Python 3.10, in GUI elements
fixed the Rtree optimization when drilling with no toolchange such that all drill points are used
fixed the CNCJob object Tools Table when drilling with no toolchange: now only one tool is displayed
made sure that if the OR-TOOLS package is not installed then the options in the Preferences for the related optimizations are disabled

19.11.2021

solved some Shapely 2.0 deprecation warnings in the Panelize Plugin

17.11.2021

fixed an issue when using Python 3.10, in GUI elements
added fix such that the application will work without having the ortools package installed: TSA and RTree algorithms will be automatically used in that case
added Rtree optimization for Drilling Plugin

10.11.2021

fixed the issue with toggling visibility for Excellon objects
fixed some issue when using Python 3.10

7.11.2021

in Cutout Plugin made sure that mouse bytes feature will not autoselect the Excellon object that is created

6.11.2021

in Isolation Plugin there is no longer auto-switch to Properties Tab
when editing Geometry objects with multiple geometry fixed the issue with the edited geometry always being the one in the first tool
in Geometry Property Tab, clicking the tools table header will toggle the selection for all tools in the table

1.11.2021

Cutout Plugin - improved the functionality in Manual mode: depending on the state of the Shape parameter different types of cutout manual geometry is generated
fixed a bug in the Editors when trying to launch the Editor without an object selected
Markers Plugin - fixed issue when adding existing markers to an external Geometry object

31.10.2021

in Markers Plugin made sure that whenever new markers are added, the previous ones are first cleared so there is no accumulative action
in Markers Plugin added utility geometry for the manual mode
refactored the is_legacy object to use_3d_engine
made sure that there is no longer a double action when toggling the object visibility ('plot' attribute)
fixed an exception that was triggered when toggling units inside the Editors
working on Cutout Plugin - refactoring code
fixed issue in Cutout Plugin: there was an offset from the object center when using automatic gaps, both on X and Y axis
fixed issue in Cutout Plugin: when the margin parameter was bigger than the gaps size (automatic gaps) the gaps are not created

30.10.2021

small changes in the VisPyVisuals that should improve a bit the performance
in Isolation Plugin: if using a V-shape tool, restored the ability to change the tool diameter as a function of tip diameter, tip angle and the depth of cut

28.10.2021

cleaned the geometry generated by flattening by removing the empty geometry; fixed issue #539 on jpcgt's bitbucket account
fixed error that did not allowed printing from the TextEditor
added an error message when the File -> Print to PDF functionality is not working due of missing a root element in the SVG step
fixed printing a CNCJob object with File -> Print(PDF) functionality by adding a root element if both travels and cuts are present
fixed some more Shapely 2.0 deprecation warnings
added more of the contributors in the About page

27.10.2021

fixed the offsetting feature in the Isolation Plugin such that the interiors of the isolated polygons are offset correctly
applied changes for offsetting to other methods

25.10.2021

updated the PlotCanvas3d

24.10.2021

added an example showing performance degradation in VisPy 0.9.1

18.10.2021

fixing a possible error in Subtract Plugin: trying to remove the aperture with id: 0 will create an exception if this aperture does not exist

15.10.2021

added an ugly form of extra pad passes functionality in Isolation Plugin - does not take into consideration the milling direction
fixed a Shapely deprecation warning in export_dxf() in GeometryObject class
in Geo Editor fixed another Shapely deprecation warning in flatten() method

14.10.2021

updated the translation strings

13.10.2021

in Distance Plugin - modified the UI
in Distance Plugin - implemented a new feature: multi segment distance measurement
in Distance Plugin - the Dx, Dy, Angle and Distance values are updated real time (for non multi segment measurement)
in Distance Plugin - Distance value is now updated real time regardless of the Multi Point setting
in Distance Minimum Plugin - upgraded the UI
added a method to do cleanup after a Plugin close
in Distance Plugin added the cleanup after the Plugin is closed from the Tab close button
renamed the Distance Minimum Plugin to Object Distance; started to add new functionality on this Plugin: to calculate the distance between the bounding box centers too
pywin32 module is no longer needed when running in Windows
updated the Romanian translation
Google-translated the Spanish translation
updated the strings in all translation files
if the user is not admin then the application will not restart from within but the changes will be applied at the next app run
updated the strings in all translation files
finished the new feature in the Object Distance Plugin (calculate the distance between the bounding box centers) and code refactoring

12.10.2021

fixed some issues in NCC Plugin: the Plugin could not clear a simple geometry and also some failures were not treated correctly

11.10.2021

in Distance Plugin, after setting the start point of the measurement, moving the mouse will update the end point position
in Markers Plugin: fixed the offset from center functionality
in Markers Plugin: changed the name of the resulting object to reflect this plugin name
fixed an issue with toggling the visibility of objects

10.10.2021

in Markers Plugin replaced the Margin parameters with the Offset parameters that now can be referenced either to the edge of the bounding box (effectively replacing the old Margin parameter) or to the center of the bounding box
Distance Plugin Ui was upgraded
updated the language strings
in 2Sided Plugin: adding cumulative alignment points using the Ctrl+Shift+LMB now detects if it is a new start in adding alignment drill points
in 2Sided Plugin: duplicated set of coordinates in Alignment Drills are removed
in 2Sided Plugin: Shift+LMB will add automatically the clicked coordinates in the Alignment Drills location
update language strings
updated the Romanian translation files
updated the Turkish translation files by Mehmet Kaya

9.10.2021

fixed some recently introduced issues for the Milling and Drilling Plugins; those plugins did not had the pluginName defined in the Plugin UI
in the canvas context menu added the menu for color changing
when doing color changing now only Gerber and Excellon objects can have the colors changed
fixed an issue within the version checking (inherited from FlatCAM)
renamed the Corner Markers Plugin in Markers Plugin
added a new feature in Markers Plugin: now the Margin parameter can be set for both axis: X and Y or both

8.10.2021

the Plugins object combo boxes are no longer updated on object selection on Project tab generally but only for the Plugin that is current, if any
in Corner Markers Plugin I added a new feature, ability to insert existing markers into external objects. Finished the work for external Gerbers and work in progress for the external Geometry
the Editors require an Object UI build before launching; I've added the required code so the shortcut keys work even if the Properties tab is not current
in Corner Markers Plugin - finished the feature of adding markers geometry to an external Geometry object
changing the Excellon Object color from Project Tab context menu is now persistent

7.10.2021

updated the Turkish translation files (by Mehmet Kaya)
added a new color in the Object Colors ("indigo")
now the object color transparency is preserved if a new color is chosen
the Properties tab UI is now populated with the object UI only when the Properties tab is selected and not on object selection like it was done previously
make sure that if the Properties Tab is selected then the Object UI is updated (built) on object selection on canvas
code cleanup
in "Punch Gerber" and "Extract" Plugins - make sure that the aperture markings are deleted on Reset Tool click and upon finishing the Plugin main function
in Punch Gerber Plugin the object is no longer populated automatically with the generated object
in Corner Markers Plugin fixed the position of "drills in locations" and for Checking Excellon; the source object is no longer auto-updated to the latest one since we have to always work on the original object

5.10.2021

Corners Plugin made sure that Drill in Locations and Check in Locations functionality works for manual mode
Check Rules Plugin - upgraded the UI to the new look and grouped better the rules
updated the language strings
upgraded the Preferences UI section for Check Rules Plugin

4.10.2021

fixed a typo in the Object UI
in 2Sided Plugin advanced mode fixed the bounds calculation: if no object is selected on canvas then the object selected in Source Object is used
in 2Sided Plugin added a new typ of alignment drills: manual. This mode will no longer add pairs of drill holes mirrored against reference but only add in place drill holes
in 2Sided Plugin clicking LMB and also pressing CTRL+Shift will add the click coordinates to the Drill Alignment Coordinates
added support for all Plugins to handle the LMB click release event without connect/reconnect of the mouse events
code refactoring in appMain file
in 2Sided Plugin, deleting the last drill alignment coordinates will update the clipboard values too
added the circle approximation parameter for Excellon geometry in Preferences
updated the language strings

3.10.2021

updated the language strings to the latest version
some changes in the Objects UI
removed some VisPy patches that now are incorporated in the v 0.9 of VisPy; bumped the VisPy requirement to 0.9.0
in Cutout Plugin solved a Shapely 2.0 deprecation warning

2.10.2021

in Preferences, more Plugins preferences UI are upgraded to the new look
In Paint Plugin fixed the Area select mode to work with Geometry object created by the Geometry Editor
in Paint Plugin some changes in the way the source object is autoloaded
in Paint, NCC and Cutout Plugins when using a mode that require to be terminated (by mouse RMB or ESC key) the notebook UI element is disabled until this is done
for Transform and SolderPaste Plugins upgraded the UI
in SolderPaste Plugin now the paste is dispensed only on the pads/Gerber flashes
fixed Find Optimal Plugin: there was an error triggered after finding the minimum distance
upgraded the Find Optimal Plugin UI
upgraded Optimal and Calibration Plugins Preferences UI

1.10.2021

clicking the splash screen will close it; also if an error is triggered, the error message will pop over the splash screen
the Aperture Table in the Gerber Editor is no longer extended to show all apertures at once
in Preferences: Excellon, Geometry and CNCJob tabs, updated the UI to the new design

29.09.2021

more UI changes in the Preferences to align them to the new app look
finished the UI update in Preferences -> Processing

28.09.2021

changed the circle resolution back to the default of 16 since this value is good for fast rendering of Gerber files
added a shortcut to select all apertures in the Gerber Editor (Ctrl+A)
other minor fixes
added a shortcut to select all tools in the Excellon Editor (Ctrl+A)
in Cutout Plugin simplified the UI
Gerber Extra Buffering is now OFf by default. For those cases where the Gerber file is not rendered correctly it will need to be activated. It has a performance penalty so it will no longer be enabled by default for everybody.
Gerber UI in Preferences is now updated

27.09.2021

in Gerber Object trying to solve the issue with too little details on plotting geometry with inch units
working to differentiate between temporary units change and permanent units change
changed the message when encountering a critical error - it now looks better

26.09.2021

besides reporting the error into the log file now any application crash is reported also in a MessageBox after which the application will close
solved a Shapely 2.0 deprecation warning
more Qt6 port bugs fixed
in Autolevelling Plugin modified the UI; work in progress - the frame disable is not working
in Excellon Editor and Geometry Editor solved some Shapely 2.0 deprecation warnings
in Excellon Editor made sure that the tool diameter is always updated before adding a new drill (or drill array)
changing units is not possible while in Editors
changing units outside the Preferences will make no permanent changes
deleting all shapes from the shapes collection (OpenGl graphics) will reset also the index in the collection data dict

25.09.2021

solved more Shapely 2.0 deprecation warnings
in Isolation Plugin and NCC Plugin changed the UI and the Preferences for those Plugins
in Gerber Editor, the Region Tool now will draw only for the '0' aperture therefore the utility geometry will be a very thin line
multiple UI changes in Preferences
UI changes in the Paint Plugin

24.09.2021

in Extract Plugin some minor UI changes
in Film Plugin added new parameters and improvements: now the negative film can have a box that is convex and it is no longer limited to square shapes. Also, if the box object has only one geometric element (an outline) then that one will be the final shape of the negative
in Gerber Editor fixed not being able to delete an aperture
in Gerber Editor fixed the edge case where the user selects apertures in the Tools Table and then uses the Poligonize Tool and not by selecting shapes on canvas
in Cutout Plugin remade the UI and fixed different issues
in Gerber Editor fixed the issue where some shapes that belong to a deleted aperture were still stored inside the selection storage after this deletion

21.09.2021

fixed an error due of missing attribute of PlotCanvasLegacy when using Legacy2D graphic engine
solving deprecation warnings issued by Shapely
made sure that the Gerber Object geometry is always flattened
in Legacy2D graphic engine fixed setting the Opacity functionality
fixed a recent issue where Gerber files made out of single polygons were not processed
more Shapely deprecations fixes
fixed some leftovers from Qt6 port
some code optimizations in the Gerber Editor
Corners Plugin now generate Gerber objects with the solid geometry flattened
fixed issue where Gerber objects created from importing SVG geometries could not be edited

19.09.2021

fixed Extract Plugin not extracting soldermask for aperture macros
fixed INFO in Gerber Object UI to show correctly the type of geometric element in Follow geometry
in INFO functionality for Gerber Object made the difference if the Follow geometry is not a Point or a LineString
In Plugins: Panelize, Cutout, Extract, Copper Thieving disabled the autoload of the last created APP object
In Plugins: Calculators, Copper Thieving, Corners, Extract, Fiducials and Film activated the harmonizing first column width in the Plugin UI
DblSided Plugin - remade the UI
fixed some issues in AppTextEditor due of Qt6 conversion
In Extract Plugin fixed issue with not extracting soldermask for pads made with "P" type Gerber aperture
in the method that exports the Gerber fixed issue with not exporting the geometry associated with the apertures of type "P"
pattern highlighting: added the Dx and %LPC%, %LPD% expressions

18.09.2021

some code reformatting in Extract Plugin
fixed the Geometry object merge functionality
fixed a message when renaming an object

15.09.2021

updated the Chinese translation by 俊霄余

12.09.2021

some UI changes in the Milling and Drilling Plugins
working on the Excellon side from Milling Plugin
modified the UI in Excellon Object Properties UI in the milling section

10.09.2021

minor changes in Film Plugin
fixed the GLay (in GUI elements) method that synchronize the column width for multiple grid layouts when the item on column is spanning multiple columns
updated the Turkish translation by Mehmet Kaya

9.09.2021

in Fiducials Plugin updated the GUI to the new style
Fiducials Plugin: replaced a Radio button with a Combobox2 and optimized the UI
The Combobox2 GUI element no longer issue an exception if it is tried to set a string value, it will set automatically the index 0
some changes in the Preferences UI for Film and Fiducial Plugins
in Milling Plugin added a property that allows to segment the resulting GCode therefore allowing autolevelling
in Levelling Plugin added a check that allow levelling only for CNC Job objects resulted from Geometry
some minor changes
updated the language strings
on Coppper Thieving Plugin some UI updates
updated the GCGridLayout GUi element to automatically stretch the first column but offered also configuration; updated the use throughout the app
in Copper Thieving Plugin more UI changes
in GUI Elements the GLay has now a class method that allow adjusting column size in multiple grid layouts to the highest on that column; still work to do to take care of the situation when widgets are spanning multiple cells
in Fiducials Plugin added the support for ESCAPE key from manual mode and also exit by right clicking
in Fiducials Plugin addressed the situation when no object is selected but there are available
in Fiducials Plugin when adding manual fiducials now panning is allowed without cancelling the process of adding
in Corners Plugin implemented the manual adding of markers
in Corners Plugin added the support for ESCAPE key from manual mode and also exit by right clicking
added updated Italian translation by Massimiliano Golfetto
added updated Romanian translation
updated the language strings

8.09.2021

in Calculator Plugin, in Units Calculator added more units conversions
changes to the strings in the Calculator Plugin
in Film Plugin updated the GUI
in Film Plugin some changes in the data storage; require to delete de current preferences files
Film Plugin: now the Skew and Scale transformation have their own reference
updated the language strings to the current strings in the app
in Minimum Distance Plugin updated the GUI
in Distance Plugin updated the GUI

6.09.2021

remade the Excellon Object Properties UI
remade the Geometry Object Properties UI
remade the CNC Job Object Properties UI
in Etch Compensation Plugin updated the GUI
small UI updates in other Plugins
in Align Plugin treated a possible exception DivideByZero
in Isolation Plugin updated the GUI

5.09.2021

in Punch Gerber Plugin remade the GUI
some minor fixes in some Plugins
in QRCode Plugin remade the GUI
added some new properties to the FCCheckBox GUI element
in Corners Plugin remade the GUI
in Corners Markers Plugin added the beginning of the manual marker placement
in Alignment Plugin updated the GUI
remade the Gerber Object Properties UI
fixed a small typo when creating a new Gerber empty App Object
in Copper Thieving Plugin updated the GUI
in Extract Drills Plugin updated the GUI
in Paint Plugin updated the GUI
in NCC Plugin updated the GUI
in Subtraction Plugin updated the GUI
in Follow Plugin updated the GUI
in Invert Plugin updated the GUI

4.09.2021

in Calculators Plugin added a new calculator to calculate the required chemical weights for tinning solutions
in Calculators Plugin remade the GUI
some minor GUI modifications for a series of App Plugins
in Calculators Plugin, added sodium hypophosphite optional parameter calculation
in Cutout Plugin remade the GUI
in 2-sided Plugin remade the GUI
in Drilling Plugin remade the GUI
in Milling Plugin remade the GUI
in Panelize Plugin remade the GUI

3.09.2021

trying to get the right size of the HUD rectangle

2.09.2021

in Geometry Editor, deleting a shape from the Table context menu will update now the plot
when a Plugin is no longer used disconnect a certain signal that control the selection in the App Object Target combobox since it is not needed and it takes cpu cycles

1.09.2021

fixed the issue in Milling Plugin that did not automatically set the object combo to the previously selected object
some GUI changes in Milling Plugin
fixed the multiple selection in the Project Tab collection list; now only a single selection will trigger the signal 'proj_selection_changed'
when Milling Plugin is opened, selecting an Excelon object will set the GUI to Excellon Target

31.08.2021

made sure that the location labels in the InfoBar have only the decimals required when the Grid snapping is ON
fixed the bug where the HUD have not used the set font size from Preferences

30.08.2021

fixed the reconnection of the mouse events when canceling setting the origin
disabled the selection of a Graphic Engine until matplotlib will have support for PyQt6 framework
removed patch to fix scaling on HIDPI displays since now the fix is implemented in VisPy v0.8.1
modified a patch for VisPy Infinite Line Visual that set the line width, in order to make it compliant with newer versions of OpenGL
add HUD rectangle auto size for 3D Graphic Engine
add HUD rectangle auto size for 2D Graphic Engine
the Y axis labels are now rotated at 45 degrees allowing better space management
changed the HUD color, with Light theme, to gray
in Gerber Editor fixed bug with the row selection that no longer selected the visuals on canvas

29.08.2021

fixed a reported issue with the manual cutout in Cutout Plugin where adding more gaps will crash the app due of the manual geometry being a MultiPolygon and not a Polygon as it was assumed
fixed a reported bug in convert 2 geometry where a MultiLineString' object does not support item assignment“ error was issued
updated the language strings and the Simplified Chinese language translation

28.08.2021

removed the setting for HDPI from Preferences and QSettings: QT6 does it automatically now

26.08.2021

updated the Italian translation by Massimiliano Golfetto
Turkish and Chinese small updates
in Preferences the language names are in the native language
fixed a Qt6 derived issue where dragging tabs outside the app crashed the app
updated the Chinese translation, by 俊霄余
fixed bug in Cutout Plugin that when no object is loaded and the Generate Rectangular Geometry is clicked, the app will hard crash
improved rendering performance for lines (with help from David Hoese from the VisPy team)
fixed the convert 2 excellon and to geometry functionality
minor changes

25.08.2021

fixed some issues in the convert_units
added a new GUI element, a radio button that can change a setting in the self.defaults preferences dict
made sure that the update of the default properties tab (in the Notebook) is done only for certain keys in self.defaults not for all
fixed the "headless" feature; running headless still start the GUI just it does not show it
when running headless the sys tray icon will always be shown so the user can close the app correctly
in the systray icon context menu I've added a menu entry to toggle the GUI
fixed a possible issue with having older versions of QSettings (leftovers from previous installations of this app)

24.08.2021

using PyQt6 with multi monitors, when the pixel ratio (scaling in WIndows) is different than 1.0 there are visual issues in the 3D canvas - trying to solve by updating the dpi - partial solve
failing to load the 3d graphic engine is now reported on the log.txt file found in the Preferences folder (in appData/Roaming/app_name for Windows)
added an example to illustrate the issue with scaling in Qt6 and VisPy
the scaling issue is from VisPy, removing the previous changes on this subject and adding a patch until the new release of VisPy

23.08.2021

added a partial translation for Chinese Simplified language, by 俊霄余
trying to separate the Preferences settings from App init and to make them dependent on the self.defaults dictionary
updated the language strings from the source
translation to Simplified Chinese language is done by 俊霄余
updated the Turkish translation files, by Mehmet Kaya
in 2sided Plugin I've added ability to use shortcut keys (like Escape) when waiting for picking a hole when the Hole Snap feature is used
in 2sided Plugin entering in the Hole Snap feature will disable the notebook to signal that you need somehow to escape this mode

22.08.2021

added a new menu entry in the View menu to show the application log file where even the fatal crashes are logged
fixed an issue due of porting to Qt6

19.08.2021

some cleaning up in the Preferences
cleaned up the Geometry and Gerber object classes
more cleanup in Isolation Plugin
started the work in adding to Isolation Plugin a new feature to extra isolate the pads
some changes due of porting to PyQt6

18.08.2021

fixed the "Set Color" functionality broken by recent changes
updated the "Set Color" functionality to store the used color in a correct way
when creating a nw project the user is asked if he wants to save the preferences
changed the ColorRole in the on_about() method to 'window' os the programmers and translator tab is set to white color
changed the translators tab in the on_about() method
added the usage of the FCLabel widget instead of QtWidgets.QLabel
cleaning up Isolation Plugin
made sure that the KeyboardInterrupt exception is not logged to the log.txt file

17.08.2021

made sure that the optimal tool detected works for isolation - the offset amount changed to reflect the number of decimals used by the app

15.08.2021

fixed some issues with using the exec_() which now should be exec()
added a context menu action in the canvas context menu for moving selected objects to origin
made sure that the optimal tool detected works for isolation

14.08.2021

small change due of porting to PyQt6 in self.on_portable_checked() method

11.08.2021

fixed splash screen position on current screen when using multiple screens
some changes due of porting to PyQt6

9.08.2021

wip in porting to PyQt6: fixed OptionalInput and OptionalHideInput GUI elements

6.08.2021

more changes due of porting to PyQt6
fixed the Autocompleter highlighting to work in PyQt6
created a new custom layout based on the Grid Layout where I can set the horizontal and vertical spacings between grid items and used it throughout the app
changed the spacings in the new custom Grid layout

5.08.2021

continuing to fix the PyQt6 port
added an Exception when App.on_canvas_setup() fails
fixed fullscreen functionality for PyQt6 and a few other fixes regarding the port to PyQt6
more fixes for porting to PyQt6
changes the exit method from exit(0) to quit()
more work in PyQt6 porting
Isolation Plugin - if there is no object selected try to select the first one if there is any
Fixed setting a new style

4.08.2021

toggling the plot is now deleting the selection shape, if any
porting to PyQt6

23.07.2021

fixed errors in the Roland preprocessors
fixed CNCJob plot scaling when using Roland preprocessors
in Roland preprocessors added the use of spindlespeed
made sure that the preprocessors that don't use the gcode_header still use the start gcode

21.07.2021

when using the NCCAD9 preprocessor (for Kosy machines) at GCode save the .knc extension will be automatically preselected
added a preprocessor for Roland MDX-540
fixed the preprocessor for Roland MDX-20 X,Y moves

20.07.2021

in ParseDXF file fixed import of module due of changes in the latest version of ezdxf module
changes in Milling Plugin in the selection in the Tools Table
some updates of milling data structure
changes in handling the tool shape due of moving the parameter from the tool table in the tool parameters section a 18.07.2021
modified the Geometry UI tools table. Replaced the comboboxes with labels.
Fixed the SolderPaste Plugin regarding the special designation 'SP' job type and 'DN' tool shape
some fixes in the GCode Editor regarding the new changes in the data structure
some updates to the language strings
finished preprocessor file for Kosy CNC machine (NCCAD9)
fixed the gcode header export to work with the new data structure

15.07.2021

updated the Turkish language with the translated strings by Mehmet Kaya
modified the setup_ubuntu.sh file removing a deprecated package
added a Linux man page, courtesy of Romain Porte

14.07.2021

preferences UI is now started on preferences open
more work/fixes in working on data structures (offset, offset_value, job_type, shape)

7.07.2021

some changes in data tools structure ('tool_type' to ['data']['tools_mill_job_type])
some strings changes
working on data structures (offset, offset_value, job_type, shape) and on the Tools Database

4.07.2021

optimized the Milling Plugin preferences
added more preferences for v-shape tools in the Milling Plugin Preferences
deactivated the automatic disable of the Cut Z parameter when selecting a v-shape tool in Milling Plugin
in Milling Plugin added some protections against receiving signals from widgets without objectName set
in Milling Plugin made sure that the Custom offset field is displayed only when it is needed (selected from Offset Type combobox)
added some requirements asked by vispy v0.7.0
if the generated Gcode is empty then the app will know and will not create a CNCJob object
modified the Tool Table in Milling Plugin: now the tool type parameter is part of the Tool parameters and no longer in the Tool Table
working on a Kosy CNC machine preprocessor file

21.06.2021

optimized the data storage in the on_about() method
randomized the order in the programmers list at each launch of the on_about() method
fixed typo in Gerber parser

19.06.2021

fixed Film Plugin (Tool) negative generation to have the black background in sync with the actual geometry when transformations are applied
fixed Film Plugin (Tool) to have mirroring done only with reference 'center' regardless of what is selected in the UI
in Film Plugin now multiple adjustments can be applied at the same time and correctly
updated the files to use the new name for the voronoi package: foronoi
using Python 3.9.4

17.06.2021

fixed the setting color functionality on right click on the objects in the Project Tab such that the set color (or opacity) it is stored in a persistent setting correctly and the colors for Gerber objects are restored in order
trying to fix a Runtime exception that may happen when the Plugin Tab is deleted completely

10.06.2021

fixed some issues with error reporting for the Tcl commands
fixed drillcncjob Tcl command crashing the app when the used name is wrong and therefore no Excellon objects are located

16.05.2021

fixed SVG import to show an error for SVG files that have SVG units not mm or cm or inch
for SVG files with cm units the scaling factor is multiplied by 10
the app will signal failure when encountering the 'g' SVG element which is not supported and cancel the SVG import

7.05.2021

fixed the Gerber parser to work for the case of having coordinates with negative values and the trailing zeros are removed and leading zeros are kept

3.05.2021

changed the save_project() method such that when the project is saved as compressed now the compression is first done in memory and only after that the app will attempt to write it to a file on disk

29.04.2021

in CNCJob object, for CNCJob objects created when importing a foreign Gcode file, fixed the updating of the tool diameter
in CNCJob object, when there are no tools in the Tools Table (it happens when importing foreign GCode files) the Tool Table is now displayed in a correct way

20.04.2021

fixed a recent but in Gerber Object that crashed the application when the aperture marking was used

12.04.2021

small string change

5.04.2021

now every version of FlatCAM beta creates its own set of Preferences files

4.04.2021

fixed drill file import from FreePCB

1.04.2021

fixed a bug in the Drilling Tool when there are tools without drill points

29.03.2021

Milling Plugin - finished the polish functionality

28.03.2021

upgraded all the plugins such that at each launch the Plugin UI is reinitialized reducing the chances to get errors like "wrapped up C++ object deleted" with the side effect that the performance might be slightly reduced
minor logging changes
created a new category in Preferences where only the Engraving Related preferences are located
added a new set of options in the Preferences for the Milling Plugin by taking them out of the Geometry section
fixed an error in the Subtract Plugin when working on Geometry objects
fixed ParseFont such that the output of the Text Plugin in the Geometry Editor can now be painted using the Paint Plugin
fixed errors when using the new ... canvas context menu entries which crated a hard crash
minor layout change in Preferences -> Geometry

22.03.2021

Milling Plugin - will update the UI form on object change with the data from its last tool
Drilling Plugin - will update the UI form on object selection on canvas

21.03.2021

fixed a small issue in Film Plugin (the object selection the plugin UI is not updated with the selected object in Project Tab)

20.03.2021

removed another parameter in the serialized parameters for CNCJob object (no longer used) which made the project saving to fail (when CNCjob objects are in the project)

19.03.2021

fixed mouse bytes generation if Cutout Plugin to add an extra drill hole at the end
fixed an issue in Film Plugin made by copy/paste done recently to make sure that objects selected in Project Menu are populated in the Plugin UI on Film Plugin launch
removed a parameter in the serialized parameters for CNCJob object (no longer used)

18.03.2021

changed some strings; updated the translation strings with the new strings (they need to be translated)
modified all the plugins (formerly named Tools) to auto select in the plugin the selected object from Project Menu
small changes in Tools Database

15.03.2021

the GCode generation takes now into consideration the Toolchange X-Y parameter as a starting point
Milling Plugin - work on it; upgraded the form-to-data_storage methods
fixed bug in Copper Thieving, Corners and Fiducial Plugins which crashed the app when using Disable Plot menu action on the Project Menu objects
Etch Compensation Plugin - fixed a number of issue; fixed issue #500

14.03.2021

Geometry Editor can now modify the edited tool diameter
upgraded the Drilling Plugin and all the related parts in the CNCJob Object and in all preprocessors. Now, the parent 'tools' attribute is inherited and also the GCode is stored here
small fix in the Toolchange_Manual preprocessor
Drilling Plugin - added in the UI the toolchange X,Y parameter and made it to work as expected
Milling Plugin - added in the UI the toolchange X,Y parameter and made it to work as expected
allow the old projects to be loaded without crashing the app, although the load is incomplete
updated the Milling Plugin and all the related parts in the CNCJob Object and in all preprocessors. Now, the parent 'tools' attribute is inherited and also the GCode is stored here
made sure that old projects load but without the CNCjob objects which would have crashed the app due different data structures
the FlatCAm Evo projects load now in succession, no longer on threads

13.03.2021

fixed a bug in Gerber merge
bypassed a bug in FlatCAM Gerber UI - it's not really fixed (it's a crash in build UI when disconnecting signals due of the wrapped C++ object already destroyed)

11.03.2021

fixed issue when exporting DXF and not settings the units
added the possibility to export the Geometry in different DXF formats (previously it was hard coded to the AutoCAD 2010): R12, R2000, R2004, R2007, R2010, R2013, R2018
fixed the camlib.Geometry.bounds() method such that it is calculated correctly for Geometry objects created in the Geometry Editor

7.03.2021

Levelling Plugin - mare sure that there are no duplicate seed points when creating Voronoi polygons
Levelling Plugin - fix of missing variable declaration (forgot to take everything when I moved the functionality from the CNCJob class to its own class)
made sure that possible temporary drawn shapes are deleted when the UI of the Plugin that created them is closed (by closing it in the Plugin Tab)
modified the CNCJob UI to add a shortcut button for the Levelling Plugin

6.03.2021

some minor updates to NCC Tool

5.03.2021

added detection of Gerber files in Gerber X2 format
added a new feature: if a Gerber file in format Gerber X2 having Drill information's is detected then after loading, it will be converted to an Excellon object
fixed the Extract Tool to work with apertures (tools) keys as integers
fixed the Copper Thieving Tool to work with apertures (tools) keys as integers
fixed the Corners Tool to work with apertures (tools) keys as integers
fixed the Fiducials Tool to work with apertures (tools) keys as integers

4.03.2021

fixed Punch Gerber Tool to work in new conditions
fixed creating positive films in Film Tool, because of recent changes
working on the Levelling Tool - trying a new Voronoi module (https://github.com/Yatoom/voronoi) without success
fixed some display issues in the Levelling Tool

3.03.2021

fixed errors on project load, in ParseGerber and Extract and Punch Gerber Plugins due of refactoring the 'apertures' attribute to 'tools'
aperture keys in the gerber 'tools' dictionary are now stored as integers instead of strings as before; need to check the application especially the Gerber Editor
fixed issues in Gerber Editor (using the '0' instead of 'REG' type for apertures)

2.03.2021

removed the spacing between icons in toolbars
fixed a problem in saving done at the app closure

01.03.2021

major rafactoring: replaced the name of the Gerber object data structure from 'apertures' to 'tools' to make the object data structure uniform across the app

28.02.2021

fixed Panelize Tool to work with objects made by merging other objects together

27.02.2021

added possibility of changing the Axis color and created a new parameter for that in Preferences
some refactoring
in a FCColorEntry GUI element, setting a color in the Color dialog will trigger the editingFinished signal therefore propagating the changes
Milling Tool fixes: milling tool dia after edit fix and milling slots fix
update in Code Highlighter to highlight the X and Y chars
updated the Document and Script objects Beginner/Advanced selection labels to the same as the rest of the app objects
strings update
make sure that Autoload Tools from DB functionality from Excellon Object UI is working only with tools from DB market for Drilling Tool

26.02.2021

fixes in Drilling & Milling Plugins for the error: "RuntimeError: wrapped C/C++ object of type ... has been deleted"
Milling Tool (Plugin) - fix to use the tool diameter set in the Milling plugin tool; selection in the Tools Table is now by row
Film Tool - made sure that the reference point is used for all transformations in case of positive film
Film Tool - made sure that the reference point is used for all transformations in case of negative film; negative film now use the color setting from Preferences too
changed some confusing strings regarding the 'Properties'
Properties Tool is now ObjectReport Tool
fixed some attributes in Milling Slots Excellon Object utilities functionality
fixed some issues in the translated strings .po files

13.02.2021

fixed a bug in Transform Tool when calculating the point reference
working in Film Tool to add the reference for all adjustments

10.02.2021

fix of Tcl command AlignDrill by Bogusz Jagoda
small changes in FlatCAMExcellon.py file to fix milling the drill holes (due of the new changes in Geometry data structure)

29.01.2021

some refactoring
working on Milling Tool and Drilling Tool: made sure that the plugin UI is initialized only when the plugin (Tool) is run in order to avoid errors like (wrapped C++ objects was deleted)

28.01.2021

added a new preprocessor by Georg Ziegler, used with a laser (cleaned it for PEP8)

27.01.2021

some fixes in Drilling Tool and in camlib.py file
working on Milling Tool
working in Drilling Tool to make it more robust
Drilling Tool - fixed an issue with dropping the changes done in the UI
Drilling Tool - fixed an issue when Drilling Tool is open and the last Excellon object is deleted
fixed an issue in Tool Cutout - when using the thin gaps the 9999 tool number is not accepted by Mach3

21.01.2021

added ability to see the verbose log when importing SVG's (if set in preferences)
added some more logs to the SVG import
fixed minor issue with not having the Cancel option on exiting the GCode Editor through the Toolbar button
in Gerber Editor fixed the canvas context menu not showing
made sure that the Offset fields in the Properties Tab are updated on object: move, origin change, transformations
when doing 'Set Origin' the right mouse click will cancel the action

19.01.2021

fixed the Gerber export to convert all the aperture macros to regions and therefore export also the data from aperture macros

17.01.2021

some changes in the GUI elements and some updates in the Cutout Tool
fixes in Panelize and Cutout Tool (Panelize has issues when exporting Gerber with aperture macros)
changed the Drilling Tool such that when an Excellon Object was generated to use the 'Check_points' preprocessor then only that preprocessor will be available and usable

13.01.2021

working on the Follow Tool and Milling Tool
working on the Isolation Tool and Milling Tool
fixed GCode Editor such that selection of the only tool present when the GCode ie generated without Toolchange event will select all the actual working GCode

12.01.2021

in Gerber parser added a fix for Gerber region geometry that is self-intersecting

11.01.2021

working on Tool Follow, Milling Tool, camlib to adapt them to the new changes in the Geometry Object

10.01.2021

renamed the Tool menu category to Plugins
for all the plugins optimized the plugin name
renamed the app to FlatCAM Evo in order to make a difference from FlatCAM app which follows its own path
modified the splash image to reflect the new naming of the app
modified some of the documents (License, Readme) in the app to reflect the actual reality in 2021
made more changes in the names; Tools Toolbar is now Plugin Toolbar
the detachable tabs are now not detachable by default after first install

9.1.2021

attempting to fix issue #492 - when checking for tools present in the database there were some errors in the NCC, ISO, MILL, PAINT and CUTOUT Tools
minor change in Geometry Object
some changes in Tools Database and in Cutout Tool; working to update to new milling parameters

8.01.2021

added the toggle button for Beginner/Advanced mode for the CNCjob, Geometry, Gerber, Excellon Objects UI (Properties Tab)
some changes in PreferencesManager due of Milling Tool changing names of the geometry defaults to tools_mill_ defaults
for Excellon, Geometry and Gerber objects now in the Object UI (Properties Tab) by default the Offset field is populated with the coordinates of the center of the current object
for NCC, Cutout, Paint, Milling Tools made sure that the tool data dict is populated correctly

6.01.2021

allowed some more parameters to have negative values (tool diameters especially)
some more tools now have a Beginner/Advanced mode
for QRCode and Subtraction Tools added also a Beginner/Advanced mode
in NCC Tool fixed issue #486 where creating Area Selection shapes of type Square with Grid snap OFF will not use the first click position
fixed a bug in Paint Tool when doing Painting Area Selection and nothing is no polygon is in the selections to be painted
fixed Isolation, Paint and NCC Tools to use the Tool Type parameter from Preferences on adding new tools and also setting the 'type' key in tools dict correctly
fixed the export_dxf and export_svg Tcl commands
fixed issue #489 - missing pywin module requirement in the requirements.txt file

5.01.2021

changing some parameters from 'geometry_' to 'tools_mill_' format

4.01.2021

Levelling Tool - disable the UI if the Gcode is not segmented for autolevelling (perhaps recreate the GCode as segmented?)
in camlib.CNCjob class fixed the linear2gcode_extra() method to be able to do GCode segmentation.
Levelling Tool - minor changes

3.01.2021

fixed the Tcl Commands: new_geometry, new_gerber and new_excellon to create correct objects. New Geometry object created with the new_geometry Tcl command accept now the usage of add_circle/polygon/polyline/rectangle Tcl commands
updated the autocompleter list for the Tcl commands with missing Tcl commands names
added three new Tcl Commands: add_aperture (adds an aperture to a Gerber object), add_drill and add_slot (add a drill/slot to an Excellon object)
added a new parameter to the New Tcl command named -reset. If set False (or 0) the TCL instance will not be recreated, allowing to keep the TCL variable content on the new project.
included the modifications from PR #336 from Andre Spahlinger

2.01.2021

removed the 'machinist setting' and allow all over the app the usages of both negative and positive values (where it is the case)
applied the changes from Andre Spahlinger from PR's #332 and #334
moved all the Levelling stuff out of the CNCjob Properties Tab to its own tool, Levelling Tool. The functionality itself is not finished yet.
Levelling Tool - changed the Beginner mode
Levelling Tool - moved all the Levelling Preferences into its own category

31.12.2020

fixed the issue with not saving the project on program close if selecting the 'Yes' option.
all the logs done on Exception are now errors (with the exception of few places where the Exception is expected)
added the modifications made by Andre Spahlinger in PR #333
replaced all usages of QFormLayout with QGridLayout
fixed parseDXF() class imports to work with newer versions of ezdxf module (starting with 0.15) - contribution of Maurizio D'Addona and Hans Boot
fixed a string ("Penelization Reference") by Hans Boot contribution.
fixed a string ("Penelization Reference") translations by Hans Boot contribution.
fixed issue with not being able to mill holes in an Excellon object part of a loaded project (JSON serialization makes all keys in the dictionary into strings so I had to make sure that the obj.tools dict keys are made integers on project reconstruction)
added needed 'testresources' module in the setup_ubuntu.sh script - Hans Boot contribution

30.12.2020

fixed error in Gerber Editor
made some more log.debug messages visible in Tcl Shell

28.12.2020

Gerber Editor - Import Shape sub-tool finished (by adding selection by dragging a selection box)
fixed issue #478 - Tcl Command 'New' updated

27.12.2020

Gerber Editor - finished the Import Shape sub-tool single shape select feature

26.12.2020

made sure that the Tool menu is disabled when entering into an Editor and re-enabled on Editor exit
Gerber Editor - working on a new sub-tool: Import Shape which should allow importing polygons from other Gerber objects

25.12.2020

merged PR by Dmitriy Klabukov and expanded it a bit
Gerber Editor - made sure that when simplification button is clicked the coordinates and vertex points field are cleared
Gerber Editor - added a Beginner/Advanced toggle button
Gerber Editor - added context menu to Apertures Table and also on row selection in Aperture Table, the area and vertex number fields are updated
Excellon Editor - added a Beginner/Advanced toggle button; added context menu to Tools Table
Excellon Editor - fixed the Tools Table row selection handler
GCode Editor - added a Beginner/Advanced toggle button
Geometry Editor - added a Beginner/Advanced toggle button
Geometry Editor - made sure that on right clicking in the Table the geometric element associated with the row under mouse cursor is selected
Geometry Editor - added the label Beginner/Advanced for uniformity within the app
minor string changes

23.12.2020

Dwell and Dwell Time parameters are visible in Beginner Mode

21.12.2020

made sure that the GCode Editor does not have a misleading Cancel option when closing the tab
made sure that some other part of the program outputs the log messages to the Tcl Shell if the Verbose Log options is set in Preferences
minor changes to the syntax highlighting in GCode Editor

20.12.2020

modified the way the status bar icon is set
Drilling Tool - fixed missing feedrate code when the toolchange is Off
AppTextEditor - working on syntax highlighting
App - trying to speed up the new project creation
Tcl Shell - Browser Edit - added Undo/Redo, Cut and Delete selection
replace all the exec_() calls with exec() (except one situation in Tcl where I'm not sure of the effect)
in verbose log made the messages in Tcl Shell to be displayed in gray color and to include the date

18.12.2020

fixed the Tcl command export_gcode to return the actual gcode
Gerber Editor - when doing a selection of polygons, the displayed area is now the cummulated value

17.12.2020

Gerber parser - when simplification is used, the tolerance value will be adjusted by dividing it with 25.4 if the file units are imperial

15.12.2020

modified the way that the PlotCanvas widget is added
in ParseGerber class fixed simplification controlled by the Preferences parameter
in ParseGerber class made logs use the self.app.log handler which in turn can output messages in the Tcl Shell

14.12.2020

added new functionality: centering in origin for a selection of objects
for all centering functionality, now if the moved object is of 'geometry' kind it will have the source_file attribute updated with DXF code
modified the centering in origin functionality to include a selection of choices in a dialog
fixed Locate in Object functionality to work in the situations where there are negative bounds values
Gerber Editor - the vertex number points are now calculated also for a selection of shapes
Geometry Editor - the vertex number points are now calculated also for a selection of shapes
Geometry Editor - made sure that the shapes cannot be selected while the simplification is in process because it will mess things

13.12.2020

GCode Editor - fixed the issue with the editor toolbar buttons not being updated like for the other editors
GCode Editor - the plot_area tab GCode editor that is added will close the Editor when the tab itself is closed
SolderPaste Tool - the GCode Viewer will open a AppText Editor Tab with Plain Text
GCode Editor - added an Exit action to the context menu in the GCode Editor Tab

12.12.2020

added an experimental 3D area (archball camera)
Drilling Tool - fix a bug introduced in the latter changes; when the Tool is launched and there is no Excellon object loaded then the default_data can't be filled in: solved by using the self.app.options in that case
Drilling Tool - made sure that the preprocessors that are not allowed in this Tool are not loaded in the combobox
SolderPaste Tool - fixed not recognizing the default tools
SolderPaste Tool - fixed the UI
SolderPaste Tool - fixed various issues
Cutout Tool - made the gap size parameter to take values between 0 and 10000

11.12.2020

updated the 'Default_no_M6' preprocessor by removing the Tx command in the Toolchange section to make it compatible with GRBL controllers
added a new preprocessor named 'Check_points' which is to be used to check if the PCB is well aligned in position (used by at least the Corners Tool)
Tool Corners - added a new feature that creates a verification GCode by moving in the locations positions; modfied the UI a bit
Drilling Tool - removed the mandatory Toolchange event added even if the Toolchange was not selected
Excellon and Geometry objects no longer have the self.options dict overwritten with the application defaults
Drilling Tool - first tool that benefit from using the object options instead of application defaults; this is useful if an object is recreated on project load
Drilling Tool - fixed it to update the UI form also for common parameters on object change
new Application Objects will hold all the options that start with 'tools_'
Tool Corners - fixed the positions of the drills and for the verification locations in the Drill in Locations and Check in Locations Excellon objects, to take in the consideration the tool diameter
modified the default drawing tolerance from 0.01 to 0.001

10.12.2020

NCC Tool - remade the 'Beginner/Advanced' Mode
Paint Tool - remade the 'Beginner/Advanced' Mode
Cutout Tool - remade the 'Beginner/Advanced' Mode
minor changes to the UI to all Tools with 'Beginner/Advanced' Mode
Film Tool - remade the 'Beginner/Advanced' Mode
2Sided Tool - remade the 'Beginner/Advanced' Mode
Drilling Tool - fixed a bug where this Tool will work on a previous version of the selected Excellon object (in case that the object was altered between launch of the Drilling Tool and the GCode generation)
added some color coded titles in some Application Tools that hold multiple functions
in ObjectCollection class made sure to use the log handler defined in the App class
minor changes in App.init()

9.11.2020

simplifying the UI for the Milling Tool when in 'Beginner' mode
Milling UI - clicking the 'Beginner/Advanced' top button will switch the application mode for the current tool(this change need to be propagated everywhere a 'Beginner' mode is needed)
fixed the on_delete() method in the App class; sometime it will delete all files that have similar names
made sure that on creation of new objects the adding of the names to the auto-complete list is done properly
Drilling Tool - remade the 'Beginner/Advanced' Mode
Milling Tool - fixed the ever-growing list of preprocessor's
in all Object UI's fixed the Properties section columns resize to content on expansion/collapse of the items
in Tcl Shell Dock widget make sure that the context menu is not shown on the title bar and middle clicking on the title bar will close the widget
Drilling Tool - minor UI change
Isolation Tool - remade the 'Beginner/Advanced' Mode
Panelize Tool - some UI fixes

8.12.2020

few changes in the Milling UI
made some changes in the application to prepare for usage of PyQt6

7.12.2020

Geometry object - work in upgrade of the data structure

6.12.2020

Milling Tool - working on the data structure

4.12.2020

in Cutout, 2Sided, Film, NCC, Paint, Panelize and Subtract Tool made sure that the object selection in Project Tab reflects in the selected object in the Tools
set the shortcut key for Milling Tool to ALt+M and for Corner Markers Tool to Alt+B
fixed a bug introduced by first mod today, when the selected object is of 'cncjob' kind.
Milling Tool - working in making the exclusion areas work in this Tool; added the Exclusion Table editing ability
Milling Tool - fixed a crash when clicking the Generate CNCJob object button with no object selected
Milling, Isolation, NCC, Paint Tools UI update

3.12.2020

in Gerber Editor - modified the UI
in Gerber Editor - added new parameters for selected polygons: is_valid and area
in Gerber Editor - for Disc and SemiDisc tools now it is allowed to start without a defined aperture; it will be assumed that we work with an aperture with size zero
Subtraction Tool - fixed issue when from a given polygon it is subtracted multiple ones, the result being that the subtraction is not done

2.12.2020

Subtraction Tool - minor changes
in Gerber Editor - added some parameters to the UI: selected polygon coordinates and vertexes number and also added polygon simplification
in Gerber Editor - fixed update of Aperture Table rows selection on multiple shapes selection
in Geometry Editor - modified the FCCircle class to work as is the rest of the Geometry Editor add shapes classes
fixed the display of status bar messages when they contain brackets
in Panelize Tool - fixed the export when panelizing Excllon objects
in Panelize Tool - remade the methods such that panelizing a Gerber object as Geometry panel will now hold all the Gerber apertures as Geometry tools and added a supplementary tool that holds the solid_geometry.
in Panelize Tool - remade the methods such that panelizing a Geometry object as a Gerber panel will attempt to create polygons from Geometry
in Panelize Tool - made sure that when the path optimization will yield an empty geometry it will not be added to the panel geometry

1.12.2020

in Milling Tool fixed the UI change as a result of preprocessor change
in Isolation Tool added possibility to have tools with the same diameter; remade the sorting of the tools storage
some work in Milling Tool
Milling Tool - working in tool data structures
Milling Tool - more or less made the CNCJob generation for multi-geo Geometries to work; still the parameters may not be used
removed Generate CNCJob context menu action in the Project Menu as this will not work anymore
Milling Tool - selecting an object on canvas will update the selection of the object combobox, if the selected object type is the same sa the one selected in the Target radio
Milling Tool - changing parameters for the Geo Tool table now updates correctly the storage and are used in the CNCJob object that is created
Milling Tool - after creating and CNCJob object it is now auto-selected and the Property tab is automatically switched to
Milling Tool - various fixes
Line_xyx preprocessor - fixed when using multi-depth cut to use the right depth
Milling Tool - trying to fix an error on dragging and dropping tools in the Geo Tools Table

29.11.2020

in Geometry Editor - improvements and some issues are solved
in Geometry Editor - improvement in the update method of the whole Geometry Editor UI on shape selection on canvas
in Geometry Editor - fixed multiple plotting for the same selection
in Geometry Editor - made sure that selecting shapes on canvas will update the UI - final fix
in Geometry Editor - the Length and Vertex Points GUI elements are now read only since it does not make sense to edit them
in Properties Tab UI (Object UI) made sure that the UI stays compact even on large screens

28.11.2020

updated the Italian translation (by Massimiliano Golfetto)
added the mechanism to create an error log in the data path where to write debug data for the crashes of FlatCAM
Turkish language strings updated (by Mehmet Kaya)
in Geometry Editor - reverted to using non-threaded move
in Geometry Editor - made sure that polygons are displayed as such in order to not create confusion (the plotted shapes now have 'content')
in Geometry Editor - in Polygon tool solved issues with adding a double point at the last position
in Geometry Editor - the Rectangle and Polygon tools are now the result stored as LinearRing instead of Polygon
in Geometry Editor - upgraded the Intersection and Subtraction tools to work correctly using as inputs LinearRing's
in Geometry Editor - fixed the display of coordinates for MultiLineString's
in Geometry Editor - fixed the Explode tool to work in the new conditions
in Geometry Editor - fixed the Buffer tool to work in the new conditions

27.11.2020

in Geometry Editor fixed the selection on the Geometry Table
in Geometry Editor - made sure that the edited Geometry do not contain Shapely Points and that when adding shapes, that the geometry of that shapes is valid and non empty and it is not a Shapely Point
in Geometry Editor - added new information's (length, coordinates and vertex points number) for the geometric element selected in the Geometry Table
in Geometry Editor - added more parameters displayed for the geometric elements selected in the Geometry Table: is_valid, is_empty, is_ccw, is_simple, is_ring
in Geometry Editor - added a new feature: Simplification. It will greatly reduce the number of vertex points in a geometry element selected in the Geometry Table thus potentially greatly reducing the resulting GCode number of lines
in Geometry Editor - simplification method is now threaded and optimized
in Geometry Editor - fixed a crash on Geometry Editor exit
in Geometry Editor - added a new feature: ability to change the orientation (from CW to CCW and the revers) for Polygon and LinearRing geometry elements.
in Geometry Editor - added a context menu in the Geometry Table
fixed crash when launching with 2D Graphic Engine (due of recent changes)
in Geometry Editor - added new feature: Zoom on selected (by selecting a geometry element in the Geometry Table)
in Geometry Object Properties UI - added the UI for Utilities and within Utilities added the Simplification UI
in Geometry Object Properties UI - finished the new feature Simplification and Vertex Points calculation which should greatly reduce the resulting GCode size
in Tool Isolation, for Polygon Selection method, added ability to select all/clear all polygons allowing thus negative selection (select all followed by deselection of the polygons you don't want isolated, e.g a ground plane)
some refactoring between appMain class and MainGUI class
on tab close in Notebook the tool_shapes are deleted (shape markings used by some of the App Tools) therefore part fo the clean-up
added some protections in case the Editors could not start such that the app is not crashed
fixed wrong display of editor actions in the Editor toolbar at the first start of the app
fixed missing import in the preprocessors
deleted the Toolchange_custom preprocessor because it is no longer used
updated Language strings
translated the strings to Romanian language
Google-translated the strings to German language

26.11.2020

fixed error in Tools Database when deleting first tool; remade the tool deletion method
in Tools Database added tooltips for each column item in the left TreeWidget
in Tools Database made sure that editing the Target and Tool diameter in the right side section will update the values in the left TreeWidget
in Tools Database added a Sort by Target context menu entry and functionality; fixed the Sort by Dia functionality
in Tools Database - clicking the header sections of the TreeWidget for columns Target and Diameter will sort the tools by that criteria
in Tool Follow made sure that the resulting geometry elements are all valid and not empty and also do not contain Points as those are irrelevant in the Follow Tool

25.11.2020

had a first shot in creating a way to show the log messages in the Tcl Shell if a setting in Preferences is set
fixed Isolation Tool tool table context menu pointing at the same method for the menu entries: Add Tool and Pick from DB
made sure that the GUI element FCInputDialogSpinnerButton has the spinner element auto-selected on launch
fixed an error in Geo Editor when trying to save an empty Geometry
in Preferences made sure that clicking the Restore Defaults will update the values in the Preferences Tab
some changes in the Tools visibility in the Tools ToolBar
added confirmation status messages for clearing the recent files/projects lists
moved around portions of code in the App.init for optimization; added a control in Preferences for usage of Log in Tcl Shell
added a text placeholder in the Tcl Shell
added Find function in Tcl Shell (will search for either the selected text in the command line or for the one stored on the clipboard)
using 'Escape' key shortcut while the focus is in the Tcl Shell command line will set focus on the main canvas
in Tools Database added a new column showing the intended target and also added in the context menu an entry that will sort the tools by tool diameter
fixed in Tools Database the message pop-up that tools are modified but not saved on Toos Database tab closing
in Tools Database added a 3rd column showing the Tool Diameter

24.11.2020

fixed an issue for importing DXF as Geometry when the DXF geometry is a single line
updated the convert_any2geo() method such that resulting geometry objects have the tools attribute required in the newer versions of the app
added a way to keep compatibility with old projects
some small fixes in the Geo Editor such that the Tool Tab is no longer shown on Editor Exit if it was used by an Editor sub-tool
removed the Notebook hide action when using the Esc key in the Geometry Editor
changed how the Editor toolbar button works; added a background for the 'Exit Editor' toolbar button when in Editor

21.11.2020

Tool Copper Thieving - made sure that the clearance for pattern plating mask is applied also for positive values
Tool Copper Thieving - when creating pattern plating masks now the user can select to use only the pads and that's useful when the soldermsk Gerber is actually a copper Gerber
Tool Copper Thieving - changed the units for plated area from mm2 in cm2 when the app units are Metric
Calculator Tool - Electroplating Calculator - changing the area will update the current value
GUI Elements FCDoubleSpinner and FCSpinner: modified the context menu to not allow cut/paste/delete/step_up/step_down when the GUI element is set as Read Only
GUI Element FCLineEdit (and the inheritors) has now disabled cut/paste/delete context menu entries too
Cleaned the GUI in Excellon Preferences of parameters no longer used (transferred to Drilling Tool)
Removed warning message boxes from export DXF/SVG handlers of the menu entries in the File menu and upgraded the status bar message to error
reactivated the close_app Qt signal mechanism
updated the Readme file - MacOS installation instructions to ensure that the gdal package is installed correctly
Punch Gerber Tool - made sure that Select All/Deselect All in Manual mode is actually selecting pads not only visually
Punch Gerber Tool - finished manual mode for "Excellon" method
Punch Gerber Tool - finished manual mode for all methods
Cutout Tool - fixed generation of rectangular geometry if the selected gaps is "None"

20.11.2020

fixed the Distance adn Minimal Distance Tools not showing
in Geometry Editor and in the Gerber Editor made sure that for the sub-tools that open in the Tool Tab, if the tab is closed then the Select Tool is automatically selected. And also trying to open that sub-tool again will open a new tab.

19.11.2020

cleaned up the Geometry Properties UI
in Geometry Properties UI restored the plot functionality
in Tool Cutout fixed issues when using a negative value for the Margin parameter when the cutout object is a Gerber object
fixed the Gerber parser such that when it encounter an aperture with size 0.0 it will replace it with the smallest number that is still displayed which is (10 ** -self.decimals); previously it replaced with a too small number (1e-12)

17.11.2020

the Follow Geometry outputted by the Follow Tools is now of type multigeo which means that it can be fused with other multigeo object without much pain
Punch Gerber Tool - working on the new manual pads add feature
fixed PDF Tool such that now it can import more types of files including PDF files made with FlatCAM

16.11.2020

modified the behavior of the Tool Tab in the Notebook widget. Now the app start with the Tool Tab off. If an App Tool is launched then the Tool Tab is added and populated. If the same App Tool is launched again and the focus is in its Tool Tab then the Tool Tab is removed but if the focus is elsewhere then the focus is set again on the Tool Tab.
fixed the App Tools buttons in the Tools section of the Properties Tab for Excellon, Gerber and Geometry objects
made the Tool Tab closable
fixed a small typo in the Gerber Properties Tab that made the icon for the Cutout Tool not to show up
fixed the menu entries for the Properties Tool, Transform Tool
fixed the Tools menu actions
added new feature in the Calculator Tool: the Electroplating sub-tool is now able to do reverse calculations when time is adjusted; fixes issue #14 (on the work repo)
Turkish language strings updated (by Mehmet Kaya)

15.11.2020

working on adding new feature to Punch Gerber Tool - manual selection of pads to be punched
Punch Gerber Tool - added methods to draw the pads selected and some UI buttons to select all and clear all to help in the selection
Milling Tool - default state is for all the tools in the Tools Table to be selected
removed the enforced ActivityView width
various string changes; updated the strings
brought up-to-date the Romanian translation strings
updated the source file when creating Excellon objects in various places in the app
working in Milling Tool
updated the Calculators Tool such that now the Cut Z parameter for V-tip tool calculator can be calculated from the other parameters too
fixed a small issue in the Calculators Tool Cut Z default value; added a confirmation message for Electroplating calculator
fixed bug in opening PDF file from recent files list
replaced some of the icons in the app

14.11.2020

upgraded the Extract Tool to allow aperture selection therefore narrowing down what apertures are the source for drills and/or soldermask openings
some work in PDF parser to make it work more reliable (not sure if I succeeded)

13.11.2020

updated the Geometry Editor such that loading objects into Editor and updating the edited object is done now multithreaded
most of the functions in the Geometry Editor are now multithreaded
fixed the Subtract sub-tool in the Geometry Editor
added an alternative Subtract sub-tool in the Geometry Editor, one that do not delete the subtracting shapes
added some not-so-good icons for the Subtract Alt sub-tool in Geometry Editor
minimized the number of tools present in the Tools Toolbar to the bare minimum
fixed an error in the Follow Tool
started to work in Milling Tool - designing the Tool UI
Milling Tool - finished the UI and also the button handlers in the Geometry and Excellon objects Properties UI
Milling Tool - fixed the situation when launching the Tool but there is no object loaded
Milling Tool - made sure that on target object change the UI is build again
Geo Editor - Text sub-tool - fixed font size control not shown; fixes issue #470
Geo Editor - fixed an issue with having a translatable text empty; updated the translation strings from sources
added a message warning the user that the file is no longer available when it tries to open a file from the Menu -> Recent files, that was moved or deleted
fixed a tooltip in the Extract Tool for the Extract Cutout button
Milling Tool - added plot awareness and connection to the Plot button in the tool; updated translation strings
Milling Tool - finished adding the add tool, copy tool, delete tool and tool plot when the target object is Geometry
in camlib.py fixed the bounds() method for the Geometry objects such that tools in an Geometry object with no geometry will be now ignored for calculating the bounds
in Milling Tool - synchronized the Tool Table for Geometry Object with the Geometry UI Table (in Properties)
in Milling Tool - the Tools Table selection works now as expected (still have to store the changed parameters/update the parameters UI)
fixed an error in the app that allowed editing of Geometry objects with multiple tools selected and of type MultiGeo; also reverted some changes in case of error in this section
in Milling Tool for Geometry object added the V-tip dia and V-tip angle parameters and linked their visibility to the TT column in Tool Table
in Milling Tool the Edit tool method now works and also updates the Cut Z if the shape of the edited tool is V-shape

12.11.2020

some fixes in the appMain class
removed the "follow" functionality from the Isolation Tool
created a new application Tool named Follow Tool
added the "follow" functionality in the Follow Tool and added the new feature of allowing to perform "follow" on an area selection
fixed bug that inversed mouse cursor movement versus the real movement on Y axis when Grid lines are Off
updated the language strings
PEP8 changes and PyCharm suggestions
in Geometry UI and in Drilling Tool added ability to edit existing Exclusion Areas and change the Strategy and OverZ parameters for each of them
in Geometry UI and in Drilling Tool added a Delete menu entry in the Exclusion Area Table context menu

11.11.2020

removed the forcing of multigeo geometry usage when creating CNCJobs
in Film Tool added messages to warn the user that it can't save a film to file due of existing locked file, if the file needs to overwrite another file who is opened in another application
in Film Tool warn the user if it tries to save a film to file but the artwork is outside the page size therefore invisible

10.11.2020

renamed the Extract Drills Tool to Extract Tool and enhanced the tool to extract a Soldermask Gerber from a given Gerber object
updated the language strings files
changed the icon for Extract Tool
in Cutout Tool added the UI for a new feature: Cut by Drilling
fixed a bug in Extract Tool, when extracting drills some of the drills were lost; added a new UI control to select/deselect all apertures
updated the Extract Tool - Extract Soldermask functionality, such that the selection of apertures will control the final SolderMask Gerber content
updated the Extract Tool - new functionality added: Extract Cutout Gerber from a given Gerber object; added parameters in Preferences
updated the UI for Cutout Tool
fixed Paint Tcl command; fixes issue #437
updated the setup_ubuntu.sh script
finished adding new feature in Cutout Tool: cut a geometry by drilling along its path
Drilling cut in Cutout Tool now works for geometry with multiple segments

9.11.2020

some refactoring in signal connections in App.init()
fixed issue with connecting twice the signals for the File Toolbar on the first execution of the program

8.11.2020

preprocessors are no longer ordered in the comboboxes so I had to sort them manually

7.11.2020

fixed some issues with not finding the methods when treating the startup arguments
set the app to "Unstable" status
fixed an if/else selection in the AppObject.on_object_created() that made the plotting of CNCJob objects to be done twice and second time will disregard the Plot Kind Preference value
updated the GCode generation section. Now the GCode is generated only once, when a CNCJob object was created. If the user chose to use the GCode Editor the GCode is only updated. If the user chose to include or remove the CNC Code Snippets, only then the GCode is regenerated. This has a higher impact on CNCJobs with very complex and long GCode.
in GCode Editor added handlers for the Insert Code buttons
in Project tab, when selecting multiple CNCJob objects, in the context menu the name of the Save entry change to Batch Save and those objects are all saved each in its own file
added support for shortcut key F2 when in the Project Tab and that will allow the object renaming much faster
fixed issue with first click on the header of the Tool Table in the Geometry Object Properties and also made sure that clicking the Plot Items in the last column will not select rows
fixed issue with the Geometry object name, object made from NCC Tool (rest machining), being changed on row clicking in the Geometry Tool Table

7.11.2020

fixed a small issue in Excellon Editor that reset the delta coordinates on right mouse button click too, which was incorrect. Only left mouse button click should reset the delta coordinates.
In Gerber Editor upgraded the UI
in Gerber Editor made sure that trying to add a Circular Pad array with null radius will fail
in Gerber Editor when the radius is zero the utility geometry is deleted
in Excellon Editor made sure that trying to add a Circular Drill/Slot array with null radius will fail
in Excellon Editor when the radius is zero the utility geometry is deleted
in Gerber Editor fixed an error in the Eraser tool trying to disconnect the Jump signal
small UI change in the Isolation Tool for the Reference Object selection
small UI changes in NCC Tool and in Paint Tool for the Reference Object selection
language strings recompiled to make sure that the .MO files are well optimized RELEASE 8.994

6.11.2020

in Gerber Editor made the selection multithreaded in a bid to get more performance but until Shapely will start working on vectorized geometry this don't yield too much improvement
in Gerber Editor, for selection now the intersection of the click point and the geometry is determined for chunks of the original geometry, each chunk gets done in a separate process
updated the French translation (by Olivier Cornet)
fixed the new InputDialog widget to set its passed values in the constructor
in Gerber Editor fixed the Add circular array capability
in Gerber Editor remade the utility geometry generation for Circular Pad Array to show the array updated in real time and also fixed the adding of array in negative quadrants
in Excellon Editor remade the utility geometry generation for Circular Drill/Slot Array to show the array updated in real time and also fixed the adding of array in negative quadrants
Turkish language strings updated (by Mehmet Kaya)
both for Excellon and Gerber editor fixed the direction of slots/pads when adding a circular array
in Gerber editor added the G key shortcut to toggle the grid snapping
made some changes in the Region Tool from the Gerber Editor

5.11.2020

fixed the annotation plotting in the CNCJob object
created a new InputDialog widget that has the buttons and the context menu translated and replaced the old widget throughout the app
updated the translation strings
Turkish language strings updated
set some policy rules back the way they were for the combo boxes in Geometry Object properties
updated the Italian translation (by Massimiliano Golfetto)
finished the Google-translation of the German language strings

4.11.2020

updated all the translation files
fixed issue with arrays of items could not be added in the Gerber/Excellon Editor when a translation is used
fixed issue in the Excellon Editor where the Space key did not toggle the direction of the array of drills
combed the application strings all over the app and trimmed them up until those starting with letter 'O'
updated the translation strings
fixed the UI layout in Excellon Editor and made sure that after changing a value in the Notebook side after the mouse is inside the canvas, the canvas takes the focus allowing the key shortcuts to work
Turkish language strings updated (by Mehmet Kaya)
in Gerber Editor added the shortcut key 'Space' to change the direction of the array of pads
updated all the translation languages. Translated by Google the Spanish, Russian. Romanian translation updated.
refactored the name of the classes from the Gerber Editor
added more icons in the Gerber and Excellon Editors for the buttons

3.11.2020

fixed an issue in Tool Isolation used with tools from the Tools Database: the set offset value was not used
updated the Tools Database to include all the Geometry keys in the every tool from database
made sure that the Operation Type values ('Iso', 'Rough' and 'Finish') are not translated as this may create issues all over the application
fix an older issue that made that only the Custom choice created an effect when changing the Offset in the Geometry Object Tool Table
trying to optimize Gerber Editor selection with the mouse
optimized some of the strings
fixed the project context save functionality to work in the new program configuration
updated Turkish translation (by Mehmet Kaya)
in NCC and Isolation Tools, the Validity Checking of the tools is now multithreaded when the Check Validity UI control is checked
translation strings updated
fixed an error in Gerber parser, when it encounter a pen-up followed by pen-down move while in a region
trimmed the application strings
updated the Italian translation (by Massimiliano Golfetto)
fixed a series of issues in Gerber Editor tools when the user is trying to use the tools by preselecting a aperture without size (aperture macro)
moved all the UI stuff out of the Gerber Editor class in its own class
in the Excellon Editor, added shortcut keys Space and Ctrl+Space for toggling the direction of the Slots, respectively for the Array of Slots
updated the translation strings to the latest changes in the app strings

2.11.2020

fixed the Tcl Command AlignDrill
fixed the Tcl Command AlignDrillGrid
fixed the Tcl COmmand Panelize, Excellon panelization section
Fixed an issue in Tool Calibration export_excellon method call
PEP8 corrections all over the app
made sure that the object selection will not work while in Editors or in the App Tools
some minor changes to strings and icons
in Corner Markers Tool - the new Gerber object will have also follow_geometry
upgraded the Fiducials Tool to create new objects instead of updating in place the source objects
upgraded the Copper Thieving Tool to create new objects instead of updating in place the source objects
in Copper Thieving Tool added a new parameter to filter areas too small to be desired in the copper thieving; added it to Preferences too
Copper Thieving Tool added a new parameter to select what extra geometry to include in the Pattern Plating Mask; added it to the Preferences
made a wide change on the spinners GUI ranges: from 9999.9999 all values to 10000.0000
fixed some late issues in Corner Markers Tool new feature (messages)
upgraded Calculator Tool and added the new parameter is the Preferences
updated translation strings
fixed borderline bug in Gerber editor when the edited Gerber object last aperture is a aperture without size (Aperture Macro)
improved the loading of a Gerber object in the Gerber Editor
updated translation strings

1.11.2020

updated the French Translation (by Olivier Cornet)
fixed issue in Corner Markers Tool that crashed the app if only one corner was checked
fixed issue in Isolation Tool where Area Isolation selection was not working
added to the translatable strings the category labels in the Project Tab and also updated the translations
fixed a small issue (messages) in Corner Markers Tool
in Corners Markers Tool added a new feature: possibility to use cross shape markers
in Corner Marker Tool add new feature: ability to create an Excellon object with drill holes in the corner markes
in Corner Marker Tool, will no longer update the current object with the marker geometry but create a new Gerber object
in Join Excellon functionality made sure that the new Combo Exellon object will have copied the data from source objects and not just references, therefore will survive the delete of its parents
updated Turkish translation (by Mehmet Kaya)
updated all the languages except Turkish
in the Tool PDF fixed the creation of Excellon objects to the current Excellon object data structure

31.10.2020

adapted HPGL importer to work within the new app
in Gerber Editor fixed an error when using the Distance Tool with "Snap to center" option active: if clicking not on a pad Distance Tool was not working
updated the Turkish translation strings (by Mehmet Kaya)
typo fixed in Copper Thieving Tool (due of recent changes)
fixed issue #457; wrong reference when saving a project
fixed issue in Excellon Editor that crashed the app if using the Resize Drill feature by clicking in menu/toolbar
fixed issue in Excellon Editor when using the menu links to Move or Copy Drills/Slots
updated the strings
updated the Turkish translation strings (by Mehmet Kaya)
added a parent to some of the FCInputDialog widgets used in the app such that those pop-up windows will b displayed in the center of the app main window as opposed to the center of the screen
finished the Google-translation of not translated strings in Russian language

30.10.2020

fixed the Punch Gerber Tool bug that did not allowed the projects to be loaded or to create a new project. Fixed issue #456
in Tool Subtract added an option to delete the source objects after a successful operation. Fixed issue #455
when entering into an Editor now the Project tab is disabled and the Properties tab where the Editor is installed change the text to 'Editor' and the color is set in Red. After exiting the Tab text is reverted to previous state.
fixed and issue where the Tab color that was changed in various states of the app was reverted back to a default color 'black'. Now it reverts to whatever color had before therefore being compatible with an usage of black theme
fixed bug that did not allow joining of any object to a Geometry object
working on solving the lost triggered signals for the Editor Toolbars buttons after changing the layout
fixed issue #454; trigger signals for Editor Toolbars lost after changing the layout
updated the translation strings
more bugs that were introduced by recent changes done to solve other bugs and so on: fixed issues with the Editors and Delete shortcut
fixed an error in the Gerber Editor

29.10.2020

added icons in most application Tools
updated Punch Gerber Tool such that the aperture table is updated upon clicking of the checboxes in Processed Pads Type
updated Punch Gerber Tool: the Excellon method now takes into consideration the pads choice
minor change for the FCComboBox UI element by setting its size policy as ignored so it will not expand the notebook when the name of one of its items is very long
added a protection on opening the tools database UI if the tools DB file is not loaded
fixed NCC Tool not working with the new changes; the check for not having complete isolation is just a Warning
fixed the sizePolicy for the FCComboBox widgets in the Preferences that holds the preprocessors
fixed issue with how the preamble / postamble GCode were inserted into the final GCode
fixed a small issue in GCode Editor where the signals for the buttons were attached again at each launch of the GCode Editor
fixed issues in the Tools Database due of recent changes in how the data structure is created
made sure that the right tools go only to the intended use, in Tools Database otherwise an error status message is created and Tools DB is closed on adding a wrong tool
fixed the usage for Tools Database in Unix-like OS's; fixed issue #453
done some modest refactoring
fixed the Search and Add feature in Geometry Object UI
fixed issue with preamble not being inserted when used alone
modified the way that the start GCode is stored such that now the bug in GCode Editor that did not allowed selection of the first tool is now solved
in Punch Gerber Tool added a column in the apertures table that allow marking of the selected aperture so the user can see what apertures are selected
improvements in the Punch Gerber Tool aperture markings
improved the Geometry Object functionality in regards of Tools DB, deleting a tool and adding a tool
when using the 'T' shortcut key with Properties Tab in focus and populated with the properties of a Geometry Object made the popped up spinner to have the value autoselected
optimized the UI in Extract Drills Tool
added some more icons for buttons

28.10.2020

a series of PEP8 corrections in the FlatCAMGeometry.py
in Geometry UI finished a very basic way for the Polish feature (this will be upgraded in the future, for now is very rough)
added some new GUI elements by subclassing some widgets for the dialog pop-ups
in NCC Tool and Isolation Tool, pressing the shortcut key 'T' will bring the add new tool pop up in which now it is included the button to get the optimal diameter
in Geometry UI and for Solderpaste Tool replaced the pop up window that is launched when using shortcut key with one that has the context menu translated
some UI cleanup in the Geometry UI
updated the translation strings except Russian which could be in the works
fixed an error that did not allowed for the older preferences to be deleted when installing a different version of the software
in Legacy Mode fixed a small issue: the status bar icon for the Grid axis was not colored on app start
added a new string to the translatable strings
fixed an error that sometime showed in Legacy Mode when moving the mouse outside canvas
reactivated the shortcut key 'S' in TCL Shell, to close the shell dock when it was open (of course the focus has to be not on the command line)
brought up-to-date and fixed the Tcl Command Drillcncjob and Cncjob
fixed Tcl command Isolate to not print messages on message bar in case it is run headless
fixed Tcl command Copper Clear (NCC)
fixed Tcl command Paint
temporary fix for comboboxes not finding the the value in the items when setting themselves with a value by defaulting to the first item in the list
fix in Tool Subtract where there was a typo
upgraded the punch Gerber Tool
updated the Turkish translation strings (by Mehmet Kaya)
fixed an issue in Isolation Tool when running the app in Basic mode;
fixed Paint, Isolation and NCC Tools such the translated comboboxes values are now stored as indexes instead of translated words as before
in Geometry Object made sure that the widgets in the Tool Table gets populated regardless of encountering non-recognizable translated values
in Paint Tool found a small bug and fixed it
fixed the Tool Subtractor algorithms

27.10.2020

created custom classes derived from TextEdit and from LineEdit where I overloaded the context menu and I made all the other classes that were inheriting from them to inherit from those new classes
minor fix in ToolsDB2UI
updated the Turkish translation strings (by Mehmet Kaya)
fixed a bug in conversion of any to Gerber in the section of Excellon conversion
some PEP8 fixes
fixed a bug due of recent chagnes in FileMenuHandlers class
fixed an issue in Tools Database (ToolsDB2 class) that did not made the Tab name in Red color when adding/deleting a tool by using the context menu
optimized the Tools Database
small string change

26.10.2020

added a new menu entry and functionality in the View category: enable all non-selected (shortcut key ALT+3)
fixed shortcut keys for a number of functionality and in some cases added some new
fixed the enable/disable all plots functionality
fixed issue with the app window restored in a shifted position after doing Fullscreen
fixed issue with coords, delta_coords and status toolbars being disabled when entering fullscreen mode and remaining disabled after restore to normal mode
changed some of the strings (added a few in the How To section)
more strings updated
modified the shortcut strings and the way the shortcuts were listed in the Shortcut keys list such that it will allow a future Shortcuts Manager
updated all the language strings according to the modifications done above
fixed a small issue with using the shortcut key for toggling the display of Properties tab
fixed issue with not updating the model view on the model used in the Project tab when using the shortcut keys 1, 2, 3 which made the color of the tree element not reflect the change in status
minor string fix; removed the 'Close' menu entry on the context menu for the TCL Shell
overloaded the context menu in the Tcl Shell and added key shortcuts; the menu entries are now translatable
overloaded the context menu in several classes from GUI Elements such that the menus are now translated
fixed a formatting issue in the MainGUI.py file
updated the translations for the new strings that were added
another GUI element for which I've overloaded the context menu to make it translatable: _ExpandableTextEdit
overloaded the context menu for FCSpinner and for FCDoubleSpinner
added new strings and therefore updated the translation strings
fixed some minor issues when doing a project save

25.10.2020

updated the Italian translation (by Massimiliano Golfetto)
finished the update of the Spanish translation (Google translate)

24.10.2020

added a new GUI element, an InputDialog made out of FCSliderWithSpinner named FCInputDialogSlider
replaced the InputDialog in the Opacity pop menu for the objects in the Project Tab with a FCInputDialogSlider
minor changes
UI changes in the AppTextEditor and in CNCJob properties tab and in GCoe Editor
some changes in strings; updated all the translation strings to the latest changes
finished the Romanian translation
created two new preprocessors (from 'default' and from 'grbl_11') that will have no toolchange commands regardless of the settings in the software
updated the Turkish translation (by Mehmet Kaya)
the methods of the APP class that were the handlers for the File menu are now moved to their own class
fixed some of the Tcl Commands that depended on the methods refactored above
reverted the preprocessors with no toolchange commands to the original but removed the M6 toolchange command
fixed newly introduced issue when doing File -> Print(PDF)
fixed newly introduced issues with SysTray and Splash
added ability for the app to detect the current DPI used on the screen; applied this information in the Film Tool when exporting PNG files
found that Pillow v >= 7.2 breaks Reportlab 3.5.53 (latest version) and creates an error in Film Tool when exporting PNG files. Pillow 7.2 still works.

23.10.2020

updated Copper Thieving Tool to work with the updated program
updated Rules Check Tool - Hole Size rule to work with the new data structure for the Excellon objects
updated Rules Check Tool - added an activity message
updated some strings, updated the translation strings
commented the ToolsDB class since it is not used currently
some minor changes in the AppTextEditor.py file
removed Hungarian language since it's looking like is no longer being translated
added a default properties tab which will hold a set of information's about the application
minor changes in the Properties Tool
Excellon UI: fixed a small issue with toggling all rows in Tools Table not toggling off and also the milling section in Utilities was not updated
some refactoring in the keys of the defaults dictionary
fixed an ambiguity in the Tools Database GUI elements

22.10.2020

added a message to show if voronoi_diagram method can be used (require Shapely >= 1.8)
modified behind the scene the UI for Tool Subtract
modified some strings and updated the translation strings
in NCC Tool added a check for the validity of the used tools; its only informative
in NCC Tool done some refactoring
in NCC Tool fixed a bug when using Rest Machining; optimizations
in NCC Tool fixed a UI issue
updated the Turkish translation (by Mehmet Kaya)
small change in the CNCJob UI by replacing the AL checkbox with a checkable QButton
disabled the Autolevelling feature in CNCJob due of being not finished and missing also a not-yet-released package: Shapely v 1.8
added some new strings for translation and updated the translation strings
in ToolsDB2UI class made the vertical layouts have a preferred minimum dimension as opposed to the previous fixed one
in Geometry Object made sure that the Tools Table second column is set to Resize to contents
fixed a bug in Tool PunchGerber when using an Excellon to punch holes in the Gerber apertures

21.10.2020

in Geometry Object fixed the issue with not using the End X-Y value and also made some other updates here
in NCC and Paint Tool fixed some issues with missing keys in the tool data dictionary
In Excellon Object UI fixed the enable/disable for the Milling section according to the Tools Table row that is selected
In Excellon Object UI fixed the milling geometry generation
updated the translations strings to the changes in the source code
some strings changed
made the Properties checkbox in the Object UI into a checkable button and added to it an icon
fixed crash on using shortcut for creating a new Document Object
fixed Cutout Tool to work with the endxy parameter
added the exclusion parameters for Drilling Tool to the Preferences area
cascaded_union() method will be deprecated in Shapely 1.8 in favor of unary_union; replaced the usage of cascaded_union with unary_union in all the app
added some strings to the translatable strings and updated the translation strings
merged in the Autolevelling branch and made some PEP8 changes to the bilinearInterpolator.py file
added a button in Gerber UI that will hide/show the bounding box generation and the non-copper region section
compacted the UI for the 2Sided Tool
added a button in Excellon UI that will hide/show the milling section
optimized a bit the UI for Gerber/Excellon/Geometry objects
optimized FlatCAMObj.add_properties_items() method
updated the Turkish translation (by Mehmet Kaya)
added ability to run a callback function with callback_parameters after a new FlatCAM object is created

20.10.2020

finished to add the Properties data to the Object Properties (former Selected Tab)

19.10.2020

added a check (and added to Preferences too) for the verification of tools validity in the Isolation Tool
fixed QrCode Tool
updated the Turkish translation (by Mehmet Kaya)

18.10.2020

fixed issue with calling the inform signal in the AppDefaults.load method
fixed macro parsing in Gerber files generated by KiCAD 4.99 (KiCAD 5.0)

17.10.2020

updated Turkish translation (by Mehmet Kaya)

8.10.2020

small change in the NCC Tool UI
some strings are changed and therefore the translation strings source are updated
Isolation Tool - added a check for having a complete isolation

7.10.2020

working on adding DPI setting for PNG export in Film Tool - update
finished updating DPI setting feature for PNG export in Film Tool

5.10.2020

working on adding DPI setting for PNG export in the Film Tool
finished working in adding DPI settings for PNG export in Film Tool although there are some limitations due of Reportlab
small change in TclCommandExportSVG

26.09.2020

the Selected Tab is now Properties Tab for FlatCAM objects
modified the Properties Tab for various FlatCAM objects preparing the move of Properties Tool data into the Properties Tab
if the Properties tab is in focus (selected) when a new object is created then it is automatically selected therefore it's properties will be populated

25.09.2020

minor GUI change in Isolation Tool

24.09.2020

fixed a bug where end_xy parameter in Drilling Tool was not used
fixed an issue in Delete All method in the appMain.py

23.09.2020

added support for virtual units in SVG parser; warning: it may require the support for units which is not implemented yet
fixed canvas selection such that when selecting shape fails to be displayed with rounded corners a square selection shape is used
fixed canvas selection for the case when the selected object is a single line or a line made from multiple segments

22.09.2020

fixed an error in importing SVG that has a single line
updated the POT file and the PO/MO files for Turkish language
working to add virtual units to SVG parser

20.09.2020

in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: on manual add of probe points, only voronoi diagram is calculated
in SVG parser: made sure that the minimum number of steps to approximate an arc/circle/bezier is 10

19.09.2020

removed some brackets in the GRBL laser preprocessor due of GRBL firmware interpreting the first closing bracket as the comment end

3.09.2020

in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: changed the UI a bit
added a bilinear interpolation calculation class from: https://github.com/pmav99/interpolation
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: made sure that the grid can't have less than 2 rows and 2 columns when using the bilinear interpolation or 1 row and 1 column when using the Voronoi polygons
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: prepared the app for bilinear interpolation
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: fixes in the UI

2.09.2020

in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: solved some small errors: when manual adding probe points dragging the mouse with left button pressed created selection rectangles; detection of click inside the solid geometry was failing
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: in manual adding of probe points make sure you always add a first probe point in origin
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: first added point when manual adding of probe points is auto added in origin before adding first point
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: temp geo for adding points in manual mode is now painted in solid black color and with a smaller diameter
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - GRBL controller - added a way to save a GRBL height map
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: added the UI for choosing the method used for the interpolation used in autolevelling

31.08.2020

updated the Italian translation files by Massimiliano Golfetto
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: made sure that plotting a Voronoi polygon is done only for non-None polygons
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: in manual mode, Points can be chosen only when clicking inside the object to be probed
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: made sure that plotting a Voronoi polygon is done only for non-None polygons
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling: remade the probing points generation so they could allow bilinear interpolation

29.08.2020

2Sided Tool - fixed newly introduced issues in the Alignment section
2Sided Tool - modified the UI such that some of the fields will allow only numbers and some special characters ([,],(,),/,*,,,+,-,%)
Cutout Tool - working on adding mouse bites for the Freeform cutout
updated the translation files to the current state of the app
Cutout Tool - rectangular and freeform cutouts are done in a threaded way
Cutout Tool - added the Mouse Bites feature for the Rectangular and Freeform cutouts and right now it fails in case of using a Geometry object and Freeform cutout (weird result)
some changes in camlib due of warnings for future changes in Shapely 2.0
Cutout Tool - fixed mouse bites feature in case of using a Geometry object and Freeform cutout
Cutout Tool - can do cutouts on multigeo Geometry objects: it will automatically select the geometry of first tool
Geometry Editor - fixed exception raised when trying to move and there is no shape to move
Cutout Tool - finished adding the Mouse Bites feature by adding mouse bites for manual cutouts

28.08.2020

Paint Tool - upgraded the UI and added the functionality that now adding a new tool is done by first searching the Tools DB for a suitable tool and if fails then it adds an default tool
Paint Tool - on start will attempt to search in the Tools DB for the default tools and if found will load them from the DB
NCC Tool - upgraded the UI and added the functionality that now adding a new tool is done by first searching the Tools DB for a suitable tool and if fails then it adds an default tool
NCC Tool - on start will attempt to search in the Tools DB for the default tools and if found will load them from the DB
fixes in NCC, Paint and Isolation Tool due of recent changes
modified the Tools Database and Preferences with the new parameters from CutOut Tool
changes in Tool Cutout: now on Cutout Tool start the app will look into Tools Database and search for a tool with same diameter (or within the set tolerance) as the one from Preferences and load it if found or load a default tool if not
Tool Cutout - this Tool can now load tools from Tools Database through buttons in the Cutout Tool

27.08.2020

fixed the Tcl commands AddCircle, AddPolygon, AddPolyline and AddRectangle to have stored bounds therefore making them movable/selectable on canvas
in Tool Cutout, when using the Thin Gaps feature, the resulting geometry loose the extra color by toggling tool plot in Geometry UI Tools Table- fixed
in Tool Cutout fixed manual adding of gaps with thin gaps and plotting
in Tool Cutout, when using fix gaps made sure that this feature is not activated if the value is zero
in Tool Cutout: modified the UI in preparation for adding the Mouse Bites feature
Turkish translation strings were updated by the translator, Mehmet Kaya
Film Tool - moved the Tool UI in its own class
in Tools: Image, InvertGerber, Optimal, PcbWizard - moved the Tool UI in its own class
Tool Isolation - made sure that the app can load from Tools Database only tools marked for Isolation tool
Tool Isolation - on Tool start it will attempt to load the Preferences set tools by diameter from Tools Database. If it can't find one there it will add a default tool.
in Tools: Transform, SUb, RulesCheck, ObjectDistance, Distance - moved the Tool UI in its own class
some small fixes
fixed a borderline issue in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - Voronoi polygons calculations

26.08.2020

fix for issue nr 2 in case of Drilling Tool. Need to check Isolation Tool, Paint Tool, NCC Tool
Drilling Tool - UI changes
Geometry object - now plotting color for an individual tool can be specified
in CutOut Tool - when using 'thin gaps' option then the cut parts are colored differently than the rest of the geometry in the Geometry object
solved some deprecation warnings (Shapely module)
Drilling Tool - when replacing Tools if more than one tool for one diameter is found, the application exit the process and display an error in status bar; some minor fixes
Isolation Tool - remade the UI
Isolation Tool - modified the add new tool method to search first in Tools Database for a suitable tool
Isolation Tool - added ability to find the tool diameter that will guarantee total isolation of the currently selected Gerber object
NCC Tool - UI change: if the operation is Isolation then some of the tool parameters are disabled
fixed issue when plotting a CNCJob object with multiple tools and annotations on by plotting annotations after all the tools geometries are plotted
fixed crash in Properties Tool, when applied on a CNCJob object made out of an Excellon object (fixed issue #444)
in Properties Tool, for CNCJob objects made out of Excellon objects, added the information's from Tool Data
in Properties Tool made sure that the set color for the Tree parents depends on the fact if the gray icons set are used (dark theme) or not
Properties Tool - properties for a Gerber objects has the Tool Data now at the end of the information's
in Gerber UI done some optimizations

25.08.2020

in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - made the Voronoi calculations work even in the scenarios that previously did not work; it need a newer version of Shapely, currently I installed the GIT version
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - Voronoi polygons are now plotted
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - adding manual probe points now show some geometry (circles) for the added points until the adding is finished
2Sided Tool - finished the feature that allows picking an Excellon drill hole center as a Point mirror reference
Tool Align Objects - moved the Tool Ui into its own class
for Tools: Calculators, Calibration, Copper Thieving, Corners, Fiducials - moved the Tool UI in its own class

24.08.2020

fixed issues in units conversion
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - changed how the probing code is generated and when
changed some strings in CNCJob UI Autolevelling
made sure that when doing units conversion keep only the decimals specified in the application decimals setting (should differentiate between values and display?)
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - some UI changes
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - GRBL controller - added the probing method
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - GRBL controller - fixed the send_grbl_command() method

23.08.2020

in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - autolevelling is made to be not available for cnc code generated with Roland or HPGL preprocessors
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - added a save dialog for the probing GCode
added a new GUI element, a DoubleSlider
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - GRBL controller - Control: trying to add DoubleSlider + DoubleSpinner combo controls
in GUI element FCDoubleSpinner fixed an range issue

21.08.2020

in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - GRBL controller - Control: added a Origin button; changed the UI to have rounded rectangles
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - GRBL controller - Control: added feedrate and step size controls and added them in Preferences
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - GRBL controller - added handlers for the Zeroing and for Homing and for Pause/Resume; some UI optimizations

19.08.2020

in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - sending GCode/GRBL commands is now threaded
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - Grbl Connect tab colors will change with the connection status
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - GRBL Control and Sender tabs are disabled when the serial port is disconnected
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - GRBL Sender - now only a single command can be sent
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - GRBL controller - changed the UI
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - added some VOronoi poly calculations

18.08.2020

in Doublesided Tool added some UI for Excellon hole snapping
in Doublesided Tool cleaned up the UI
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - in COntrol section added buttons for Jog an individual axes zeroing
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - added handlers for: jogging, reset, sending commands
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - added handlers for GRBL report and for getting GRBL parameters

17.08.2020

in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - GRBL GUI controls are now organized in a tab widget

16.08.2020

in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - updated the UI with controls for probing GCode parameters and added signals and slots for the UI
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - added a mini gcode sender for the GRBL to be able to send the probing GCode and get the height map (I may make a small and light app for that so it does not need to have FlatCAM on the GCode sender PC)
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling finished the probing GCode generation for MACH/LinuxCNC controllers; this GCode can also be viewed
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - Probing GCode has now a header
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - Added entries in Preferences
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - finished the Import Height Map method
in CNCJob UI Autolevelling - made autolevelling checkbox state persistent between app restarts

14.08.2020

in CNCJob UI worked on the UI for the Autolevelling
in CNCJob UI finished working on adding test points in Grid mode
in CNCJob UI finished working on adding test points in Manual mode

13.08.2020

in CNCJob UI added GUI for an eventual Autolevelling feature
in CNCJob UI updated the GUI for Autolevelling
Cutout Tool - finished handler for gaps thickness control for the manual gaps
CNCJob object - working in generating Voronoi diagram for autolevelling

11.08.2020

CutOut Tool - finished handler for gaps thickness control for the free form cutout

9.08.2020

small fix so the cx_freeze 6.2 module will work in building a frozen version of FlatCAM

7.08.2020

all Geometry objects resulted from Isolation Tool are now of type multi-geo
fixed minor glitch in the Isolation Tool UI
added an extra check when doing selection on canvas
fixed an UI problem in Gerber Editor

5.08.2020

Tool Cutout - more work in gaps thickness control feature
Tool Cutout - added some icons to buttons
Tool Cutout - done handling the gaps thickness control for the rectangular cutout; TODO: check all app for the usage of geometry_spindledir and geometry_optimization_type defaults in tools and in options
Tool Cutout - some work in gaps thickness control for the free form cutout

4.08.2020

removed the Toolchange Macro feature (in the future it will be replaced by full preprocessor customization)
modified GUI in Preferences
Tool Cutout - working in adding gaps thickness control feature; added the UI in the Tool

3.08.2020

GCode Editor - GCode tool selection when clicking on tool in Tools table is working. The only issue is that the first tool gcode includes the start gcode which confuse the algorithm
GCode Editor - can not delete objects while in the Editor; can not close the Code Editor Tab except on Editor exit; activated the shortcut keys (for now only CTRL+S is working)
added a way to remember the old state of Tools toolbar before and after entering an Editor
GCode Editor - modified the UI

2.08.2020

GCode Editor - closing the Editor will close also the Code Editor Tab
cleanup of the CNCJob UI; added a checkbox to signal if any append/prepend gcode was set in Preferences (unchecking it will override and disable the usage of the append/prepend GCode)
the start Gcode is now stored in the CNCJob object attribute gc_start
GCode Editor - finished adding the ability to select a row in the Tools table and select the related GCode
GCode Editor - working on GCode tool selection - not OK

1.08.2020

Tools Database: added a Cutout Tool Parameters section
GCode Editor - work in the UI

31.07.2020

minor work in GCode Editor

29.07.2020

fixed an exception that was raised in Geometry object when using an Offset

27.07.2020

Gerber parser - a single move with pen up D2 followed by a pen down D1 at the same location is now treated as a Flash; fixed issue #441

25.07.2020

Tools Tab is hidden when entering into a Editor and showed on exit (this needs to be remade such that the toolbars state should be restored to whatever it was before entering in the Editor)

22.07.2020

working on a proper GCode Editor
wip in the GCode Editor
added a Laser preprocessor named 'Z_laser' which will change the Z to the Travel Z on each ToolChange event allowing therefore control of the dot size
by default now a new blank Geometry object created by FlatCAM is of type multigeo
made sure that optimizations of lines when importing SVG or DXF as lines will not encounter polygons but only LinesStrings or LinearRings, otherwise having crashes
fixed the import SVG and import DXF, when importing as Geometry to be imported as multigeo tool
fixed the import SVG and import DXF, the source files will be saved as loaded into the source_file attribute of the resulting object (be it Geometry or Gerber)
in import SVG and import DXF methods made sure that any polygons that are imported as polygons will survive and only the lines are optimized (changed the behavior of the above made modification)

21.07.2020

updated the FCRadio class with a method that allow disabling certain options
the Path optimization options for Excellon and Geometry objects are now available depending on the OS platform used (32bit vs 64bit)
fixed MultiColor checkbox in Excellon Object to work in Legacy Mode (2D)
modified the visibility change in Excellon UI to no longer do plot() when doing visibility toggle for one of the tools but only a visibility change in the shapes properties
Excellon UI in Legacy Mode (2D): fixed the Solid checkbox functionality
Excellon UI: fixed plot checkbox performing an extra plot function which was not required
Excellon UI: added a column which will color each row/tool of that column in the color used when checking Multicolor checkbox
Excellon UI: made sure that when the Multicolor checkbox is unchecked, the color is updated in the Color column of the tools table
made sure that the Preferences files are deleted on new version install, while the application is in Beta status
fixed issues with detecting older Preferences files
fixed some issues in Excellon Editor due of recent changes
moved the Gerber colors fill in the AppObject.on_object_created() slot and fixed some minor issues here
made sure there are no issues when plotting the Excellon object in one thread and trying to build the UI in another by using a signal

20.07.2020

fixed a bug in the FlatCAMGerber.on_mark_cb_click_table() method when moving a Gerber object
added a way to remember the colors set for the Gerber objects; it will remember the order that they were loaded and set a color previously given
added a control in Preferences -> Gerber Tab for Gerber colors storage usage
made sure that the defaults on first install will set the number of workers to half the number of CPU's on the system but no less than 2

18.07.2020

added some icons in the Code Editor
replaced some icons in the app
in Code Editor, when changing text, the Save Code button will change color (text and icon) to red and after save it will revert the color to the default one
in Code Editor some methods rework

16.07.2020

added a new method for GCode generation for Geometry objects
added multiple algorithms for path optimization when generating GCode from an Geometry object beside the original Rtree algorithm: TSA, OR-Tools Basic, OR-Tools metaheuristics
added controls for Geometry object path optimization in Preferences

15.07.2020

added icons to some of the push buttons
Tool Drilling - automatically switch to the Selected Tab after job finished
added Editor Push buttons in Geometry and CNCJob UI's
Tool Drilling - brushing through code and solved the report on estimation of execution time
Tool Drilling - more optimizations regarding of using Toolchange as opposed to not using it
modified the preprocessors to work with the new properties for Excellon objects
added to preprocessors information regarding the X,Y position at the end of the job
Tool Drilling made sure that on Toolchange event after toolchange event the tool feedrate is set
added some icons to more push buttons inside the app
a change of layout in Tools Database
a new icon for Search in DB

14.07.2020

Drilling Tool - now there is an Excellon preference that control the autoload of tools from the Tools Database
Tools Database - remade the UI
made sure that the serializable attributes are added correctly and only once (self.ser_attrs)
Tools Database - some fixes in the UI (some of the widgets had duplicated names)
Tools Database - made sure the on save the tools are saved only with the properties that relate to their targeted area of the app
Tools Database - changes can be done only for one tool at a time
Tool Database - more changes to the UI

13.07.2020

fixed a bug in Tools Database: due of not disconnecting the signals it created a race that was concluded into a RuntimeError exception (an dict changed size during iteration)
Drilling Tool - working in adding tools auto-load from Tools DB
some updates to the Excellon Object options
Drilling Tool - manual add from Tools DB is working
Drilling Tool - now slots are converted to drills if the checkbox is ON for the tool investigated
Drilling Tool - fixes due of changes in properties (preferences)
fixed the Drillcncjob TCL command
Multiple Tools fix - fixed issue with converting slots to drills selection being cleared when toggling all rows by clicking on the header
Multiple Tools fix - fixes for when having multiple tools selected which created issues in tool tables for many tools

12.07.2020

when creating a new FlatCAM object, the options will be updated with FlatCAM tools properties that relate to them
updated the Tools DB class by separating the Tools DB UI into it's own class
Tools DB - added the parameters for Drilling Tool

11.07.2020

moved all Excellon Advanced Preferences to Drilling Tool Preferences
updated Drilling Tool to use the new settings
updated the Excellon Editor: the default_data dict is populated now on Editor entry
Excellon Editor: added a new functionality: conversion of slots to drills
Excellon UI: added a new feature that is grouped in Advanced Settings: a toggle tools table visibility checkbox
Drilling Tool - minor fixes
Drilling Tool - changes in UI
Isolation Tool - modified the UI; preparing to add new feature of polishing at the end of the milling job
Tool Paint - fixed an issue when launching the tool and an object other than Geometry or Excellon is selected
Geometry UI - moved the UI for polishing from Isolation Tool to Geometry UI (actually in the future Milling Tool) where it belongs
Gerber UI - optimized the mark shapes to use only one ShapeCollection

10.07.2020

Tool Drilling - moved some of the Excellon Preferences related to drilling operation to it's own group Drilling Tool Options
optimized the CNCJob UI to look like other parts of the app
in Gerber and Excellon UI added buttons to start the Editor
in all Editors Selected Tab added a button to Exit the Editor
Tool Drilling - fixed incorrect annotations in CNCJob objects generated; one drawback is that now each tool (when Toolchange is ON) has it's own annotation order which lead to overlapping in the start point of one tool and the end of previous tool
Tool Drilling - refactoring methods and optimizations

9.07.2020

Tool Drilling - remade the methods used to generate GCode from Excellon, to parse the GCode. Now the GCode and GCode_parsed are stored individually for each tool and also they are plotted individually
Tool Drilling now works - I still need to add the method for converting slots to drill holes
CNCJob object - now it is possible for CNCJob objects originated from Excellon objects, to toggle the plot for a selection of tools
working in cleaning up the Excellon UI (Selected Tab)
finished the clean-up in Excellon UI
Tool Drilling - added new feature to drill the slots

8.07.2020

Tool Drilling - working on the UI
Tool Drilling - added more tool parameters; laying the ground for adding "Drilling Slots" feature
added as ToolTip for the the Preprocessor combobox items, the actual name of the items
working on Tool Drilling - remaking the way that the GCode is stored, each tool will store it's own GCode
working on Tool Drilling

7.07.2020

updated the Panelize Tool to save the source code for the panelized Excellon objects so it can be saved from the Save project tab context menu entry
updated the Panelize Tool to save the source code for the panelized Geometry objects as DXF file
fixed the Panelize Tool so the box object stay as selected on new objects are loaded; any selection shape on canvas is deleted when clicking Panelize

6.07.2020

Convert Any to Excellon. Finished Gerber object conversion to Excellon. Flash's are converted to drills. Traces in the form of a linear LineString (no changes in direction) are converted to slots.
Turkish translation updated by Mehmet Kaya for the 8.993 version of strings

2.07.2020

trying to optimize the resulting geometry in DXF import (and in SVG import) by merging contiguous lines; reduced the lines to about one third of the original
fixed importing DXF file as Gerber method such that now the resulting Gerber object is correctly created having the geometry attributes like self.apertures and self.follow_geometry
added Turkish translation - courtesy of Mehmet Kaya
modified the Gerber export method to take care of the situation where the exported Gerber file is a SVG/DXF file imported as Gerber
working in making a new functionality: Convert Any to Excellon. Finished Geometry object conversion to Excellon.

30.06.2020

fixed the SVG parser so the SVG files with no information regarding the 'height' can be opened in FlatCAM; fixed issue #433

29.06.2020

fixed the DXF parser to work with the latest version of ezdxf module (issues for the ellipse entity and modified attribute name for the knots_values to knots)
fixed the DXF parser to parse correctly the b-splines by not adding automatically a knot value 0f (0, 0) when the spline is not closed

27.06.2020

Drilling Tool - UI is working as expected; I will have to propagate the changes to other tools too, to increase likeness between different parts of the app

25.06.2020

made sure that when trying to view the source but no object is selected, the messages are correct
wip for Tool Drilling

23.06.2020

working on Tool Drilling

21.06.2020

wip

18.06.2020

fixed bug in the Cutout Tool that did not allowed the manual cutous to be added on a Geometry created in the Tool
fixed bug in Cutout Tool that made the selection box show in the stage of adding manual gaps
updated Cutout Tool UI
Cutout Tool - in manual gap adding there is now an option to automatically turn on the big cursor which could help
Cutout Tool - fixed errors when trying to add a manual gap without having a geometry object selected in the combobox
Cutout Tool - made sure that all the paths generated by this tool are contiguous which means that two lines that meet at one end will become only one line therefore reducing unnecessary Z moves
Panelize Tool - added a new option for the panels of type Geometry named Path Optimization. If the checkbox is checked then all the LineStrings that are overlapped in the resulting multigeo Geometry panel object will keep only one of the paths thus minimizing the tool cuts.
Panelize Tool - fixed to work for panelizing Excellon objects with the new data structure storing drills and tools in the obj.tools dictionary
put the bases for a new Tool: Milling Holes Tool

17.06.2020

added the multi-save capability if multiple CNCJob objects are selected in Project tab but only if all are of type CNCJob
added fuse tools control in Preferences UI for the Excellon objects: if checked the app will try to see if there are tools with same diameter and merge the drills for those tools; if not the tools will just be added to the new combined Excellon
modified generate_from_excellon_by_tool() method in camlib.CNCJob() such that when Toolchange option is False, since the drills will be drilled with one tool only, all tools will be optimized together

16.06.2020

changed the data structure for the Excellon object; modified the Excellon parser and the Excellon object class
fixed partially the Excellon Editor to work with the new data structure
fixed Excellon export to work with the new data structure
fixed all transformations in the Excellon object attributes; still need to fix the App Tools that creates or use Excellon objects
fixed some problems (typos, missing data) generated by latest changes
more typos fixed in Excellon parser, slots processing
fixed Extract Drills Tool to work with the new Excellon data format
minor fix in App Tools that were updated to have UI in a separate class
Tool Punch Gerber - updated the UI
Tool Panelize - updated the UI
Tool Extract Drills - updated the UI
Tool QRcode - updated the UI
Tool SolderPaste - updated the UI
Tool DblSided - updated the UI

15.06.2020

in Paint Tool and NCC Tool updated the way the selected tools were processed and made sure that the Tools Table rows are counted only once in the processing
modified the UI in Paint Tool such that in case of using rest machining the offset will apply for all tools
Paint Tool - made the rest machining function for the paint single polygon method
Paint Tool - refurbished the 'rest machining' for the entire tool
Isolation Tool - fixed to work with selection of tools in the Tool Table (previously it always used all the tools in the Tool Table)
Tools Database - added a context menu action to Save the changes to the database even if it's not in the Administration mode
Tool Isolation - fixed a UI minor issue: 'forced rest' checkbox state at startup was always enabled
started working in moving the Excellon drilling in its own Application Tool
created a new App Tool named Drilling Tool where I will move the drilling out of the Excellon UI
working on the Drilling Tool - started to create a new data structure that will hold the Excellon object data

14.06.2020

made sure that clicking the icons in the status bar works only for the left mouse click
if clicking the activity icon in the status bar and there is no object selected then the effect will be a plot_all with fit_view
modified the FCLabel GUI element
NCC Tool - remade and optimized the copper clearing with rest machining: now it works as expected with a reasonable performance
fixed issue #428 - Cutout Tool -> Freeform geometry was not generated due of trying to get the bounds of the solid_geometry before it was available
NCC Tool - now the tools can be reordered (if the order UI radio is set to 'no')
remade the UI in Paint Tool and the tools in tools table ca now be reordered (if the order UI radio is set to 'no')
some updates in NCC Tool using code from Paint Tool
in Paint and NCC Tools made sure that using the key ESCAPE to cancel the tool will not create mouse events issues
some updates in Tcl commands Paint and CopperClear data dicts
modified the Isolation Tool UI: now the tools can be reordered (if the order UI radio is set to 'no')
modified the Paint, NCC and Isolation Tools that when no tools is selected in the Tools Table, a message will show that no Tool is selected and the Geometry generation button is disabled

13.06.2020

modified the Tools Database such that there is now a way to mark a tool as meant to be used in a certain part of the application; it will disable or enable parts of the parameters of the tool
updated the FCTable GUI element to work correctly when doing drag&drop for the rows
updated the Geometry UI to work with the new FCTable
made the coordinates / delta coordinates / grid toolbar / actions toolbar visibility an option, controlled from the infobar (Status bar) context menu. How it's at app shutdown it's restored at the next application start
moved the init of activity view in the MainGUI file from the APP.init()
added a new string in the tooltip for the button that adds tool from database specifying the tools database administration is done in the menu
when opening a new tab in the PlotTabArea the coordinates toolbars will be hidden and shown after the tab is closed

12.06.2020

NCC Tool optimization - moved the UI in its own class
NCC Tool optimization - optimized the Tool edit method
NCC Tool - allow no tool at NCC Tool start (the Preferences have no tool)
NCC Tool - optimized tool reset code
NCC Tool - fixed the non-rest copper clearing to work as expected: each tool in the tool table will make it's own copper clearing without interference from the rest of the tools
Geometry UI - made again the header clickable and first click selects all rows, second click will deselect all rows.
Geometry UI - minor updates in the layout; moved the warning text to the tooltip of the generate_cncjob button
Geometry UI - working in making the modification of tool parameters such that if there is a selection of tools the modification in the Tool parameters will be applied to all selected

11.06.2020

finished tool reordering in Geometry UI

10.06.2020

fixed bug in the Isolation Tool that in certain cases an empty geometry was present in the solid_geometry which mae the CNCJob object generation to fail. It happen for Gerber objects created in the Gerber Editor
working on the tool reordering in the Geometry UI
continue - work in tool reordering in Geometry UI

9.06.2020

fixed a possible problem in generating bounds value for a solid_geometry that have empty geo elements
added ability to merge tools when merging Geometry objects if they share the same attributes like: diameter, tool_type or type
added a control in Edit -> Preferences -> Geometry to control if to merge/fuse tools during Geometry merging

8.06.2020

minor changes in the way that the tools are installed and connected
renamed the GeoEditor class/file to AppGeoEditor from FlatCAMGeoEditor making it easier to see in the IDE tree structure
some refactoring that lead to a working solution when using the Python 3.8 + PyQt 5.15
more refactoring in the app Editors
added a protection when trying to edit a Geometry object that have multiple tools but no tool is selected

7.06.2020

refactoring in camlib.py. Made sure that some conditions are met, if some of the parameters are None then return failure. Modifications in generate_from_geometry_2 and generate_from_multitool_geometry methods
fixed issue with trying to access GUI from different threads by adding a new signal for printing to shell messages
fixed a small issue in Gerber file opener filter that did not see the *.TOP extension or *.outline extension
in Excellon parser added a way to "guestimate" the units if no units are detected in the header. I may need to make it optional in Preferences
changed the Excellon defaults for zeros suppression to TZ (assumed that most Excellon without units in header will come out of older Eagle) and the Excellon export default is now with coordinates in decimal
made sure that the message that exclusion areas are deleted is displayed only if there are shapes in the exclusion areas storage
fixed bug: on first ever usage of FlatCAM beta the last loaded language (alphabetically) is used instead of English (in current state is Russian)
made sure the the GUI settings are cleared on each new install
added a new signal that is triggered by change in visibility for the Shell Dock and will change the status of the shell label in the status bar. In this way the label will really be changed each time the shell is toggled
optimized the GUI in Film Tool
optimized GUI in Alignment Tool

6.06.2020

NCC Tool - added a message to warn the user that he needs at least one tool with clearing operation
added a GUI element in the Preferences to control the possibility to edit with mouse cursor objects in the Project Tab. It is named: "Allow Edit"

5.06.2020

fixed a small issue in the Panelization Tool that blocked the usage of a Geometry object as panelization reference
in Tool Calculators fixed an application crash if the user typed letters instead of numbers in the boxes. Now the boxes accept only numbers, dots, comma, spaces and arithmetic operators
NumericalEvalEntry allow the input of commas now
Tool Calculators: allowed comma to be used as decimal separator
changed how the import of svg.path module is done in the ParseSVG.py file
Tool Isolation - new feature that allow to isolate interiors of polygons (holes in polygons). It is possible that the isolation to be reported as successful (internal limitations) but some interiors to not be isolated. This way the user get to fix the isolation by doing an extra isolation.
added mouse events disconnect in the quit_application() method
remade the ReadMe tab
Tool Isolation - added a GUI element to control if the isolation of a polygon, when done with rest, should be done with the current tool even if its interiors (holes in it) could not be isolated or to be left for the next tool
updated all the translation strings to the latest changes
small fix
fixed the color set for the application objects
made some reverts regarding the mods in the quit_application() method - problems when freezed RELEASE 8.993

4.06.2020

improved the Isolation Tool - rest machining: test if the isolated polygon has interiors (holes) and if those can't be isolated too then mark the polygon as a rest geometry to be isolated with the next tool and so on
updated the French translation strings - from @micmac (Michel Maciejewski)

3.06.2020

updated Transform Tool to have a selection of possible references for the transformations that are now selectable in the GUI
Transform Tool - compacted the UI
minor issue in Paint Tool
added a new feature for Gerber parsing: if the NO buffering is chosen in the Gerber Advanced Preferences there is now a checkbox to activate delayed buffering which will do the buffering in background allowing the user to work in between. I hope that this can be useful in case of large Gerber files.
made the delayed Gerber buffering to use multiprocessing but I see not much performance increase
made sure that the status bar label for preferences is updated also when the Preferences Tab is opened from the Edit -> Preferences
remade file names in the app
fixed the issue with factory_defaults being saved every time the app start
fixed the preferences not being saved to a file when the Save button is pressed in Edit -> Preferences
fixed and updated the Transform Tools in the Editors
updated the language translation strings (and Google_Translated some of them)
made sure that if the user closes the app with an editor open, before the exit the editor is closed and signals disconnected
updated the Italian translation - contribution by Golfetto Massimiliano
made the timing for the object creation to be displayed in the shell

2.06.2020

Tcl Shell - added a button to delete the content of the active line
Tcl Command Isolate - fixed to work in the new configuration
Tcl Command Follow - fixed to work in the new configuration
Etch Compensation Tool - added a new etchant: alkaline baths
fixed spacing in the status toolbar icons
updated the translation files to the latest changes
modified behavior of object comboboxes in Paint, NCC and CutOut Tools: now if an object is selected in Project Tab and is of the supported kind in the Tool, it will be auto-selected
fixed some more strings
updated the Google-translations for the German, Spanish, French
updated the Romanian translation
replaced the icon for the Editor in Toolbar (both for the normal icons and for icons in dark theme)

1.06.2020

made the Distance Tool display the angle in values between 0 and 359.9999 degrees
changed some strings
fixed the warning that old preferences found even for new installation
in Paint Tool fixed the message to select a polygon when using the Selection: Single Polygon being overwritten by the "Grid disabled" message
more changes in strings throughout the app
made some minor changes in the GUI of the FlatCAM Tools
in Tools Database made sure that each new tool added has a unique name
in AppTool made some methods to be class methods
reverted the class methods in AppTool
added a button for Transformations Tool in the lower side (common) of the Object UI
some other UI changes
after using Isolation Tool it will switch automatically to the Geometry UI
in Preferences replaced some widgets with a new one that combine a Slider with a Spinner (from David Robertson)
in Preferences replaced the widgets that sets colors with a compound one (from David Robertson)
made Progressive plotting work in Isolation Tool
fix an issue with progressive plotted shapes not being deleted on the end of the job
some fixed due of recent changes and some strings changed
added a validator for the FCColorEntry GUI element such that only the valid chars are accepted
changed the status bar label to have an icon instead of text
added a label in status bar that will toggle the Preferences tab
made some changes such that that the label in status bar for toggling the Preferences Tab will be updated in various cases of closing the tab
changed colors for the status bar labels and added some of the new icons in the gray version
remade visibility as threaded - it seems that I can't really squeeze more performance from this

31.05.2020

structural changes in Preferences from David Robertson
made last filter selected for open file to be used next time when opening files (for Excellon, GCode and Gerber files, for now)

30.05.2020

made confirmation messages for the values that are modified not to be printed in the Shell
Isolation Tool: working on the Rest machining: almost there, perhaps I will use multiprocessing
Isolation Tool: removed the tools that have empty geometry in case of rest machining
Isolation Tool: solved some naming issues
Isolation Tool: updated the tools dict with the common parameters value on isolating
Fixed a recent change that made the edited Geometry objects in the Geometry Editor not to be plotted after saving changes
modified the Tool Database such that when a tool shape is selected as 'V' any change in the Vdia or Vangle or CutZ parameters will update the tool diameter value
In Tool Isolation made sure that the use of ESC key while some processes are active will disconnect the mouse events that may be connected, correctly
optimized the Gerber UI
added a Multi-color checkbox for the Geometry UI (will color differently tool geometry when the geometry is multitool)
added a Multi-color checkbox for the Excellon UI (this way colors for each tool are easier to differentiate especially when the diameter is close)
made the Shell Dock always show docked
fixed NCC Tool behavior when selecting tools for Isolation operation

29.05.2020

fixed the Tool Isolation when using the 'follow' parameter
in Isolation Tool when the Rest machining is checked the combine parameter is set True automatically because the rest machining concept make sense only when all tools are used together
some changes in the UI; added in the status bar an icon to control the Shell Dock
clicking on the activity icon will replot all objects
optimized UI in Tool Isolation
overloaded the App inform signal to allow not printing to shell if a second bool parameter is given; modified some GUI messages to use this feature
fixed the shell status label status on shell dock close from close button
refactored some methods from App class and moved them to plotcanvas (plotcanvaslegacy) class
added an label with icon in the status bar, clicking it will toggle (show status) of the X-Y axis on cavnas
optimized the UI, added to status bar an icon to toggle the axis
updated the Etch Compensation Tool by adding a new possibility to compensate the lateral etch (manual value)
updated the Etch Compensation Tool such that the resulting Gerber object will have the apertures attributes ('size', 'width', 'height') updated to the changes

28.05.2020

made the visibility change (when using the Spacebar key in Project Tab) to be not threaded and to use the enabled property of the ShapesCollection which should be faster
updated the Tool Database class to have the Isolation Tool data
Isolation Tool - made to work the adding of tools from database
fixed some issues related to using the new Numerical... GUI elements
fixed issues in the Tool Subtract
remade Tool Subtract to use multiprocessing when processing geometry
the resulting Gerber file from Tool Subtract has now the attribute source_file populated

27.05.2020

working on Isolation Tool: made to work the Isolation with multiple tools without rest machining

26.05.2020

working on Isolation Tool: made to work the tool parameters data to GUI and GUI to data
Isolation Tool: reworked the GUI
if there is a Gerber object selected then in Isolation Tool the Gerber object combobox will show that object name as current
made the Project Tree items not editable by clicking on selected Tree items (the object rename can still be done in the Selected tab)
working on Isolation Tool: added a Preferences section in Edit -> Preferences and updated their usage within the Isolation tool
fixed milling drills not plotting the resulting Geometry object
all tuple entries in the Preferences UI are now protected against letter entry
all entries in the Preferences UI that have numerical entry are protected now against letters
cleaned the Preferences UI in the Gerber area
minor UI changes

25.05.2020

updated the GUI fields for the Scale and Offset in the Object UI to allow only numeric values and operators in the list [/,*,+,-], spaces, dots and comma
modified the Etch Compensation Tool and added conversion utilities from Oz thickenss and mils to microns
added a Toggle All checkbox to Corner Markers Tool
added an Icon to the MessageBox that asks for saving if the user try to close the app and there is some unsaved work
changed and added some icons
fixed the Shortcuts Tab to reflect the actual current shortcut keys
started to work on moving the Isolation Routing from the Gerber Object UI to it's own tool
created a new tool: Isolation Routing Tool: work in progress
some fixes in NCC Tool
added a dialog in Menu -> Help -> ReadMe?

24.05.2020

changes some icons
added a new GUI element which is a evaluated LineEdit that accepts only float numbers and /,*,+,-,% chars
finished the Etch Compensation Tool
fixed unreliable work of Gerber Editor and optimized the App.on_editing_finished() method
updated the Gerber parser such that it will parse correctly Gerber files that have only one solid polygon inside with multiple clear polygons (like those generated by the Invert Tool)
fixed a small bug in the Geometry UI that made updating the storage from GUI not to work
some small changes in Gerber Editor

23.05.2020

fixed a issue when testing for Exclusion areas overlap over the Geometry object solid_geometry

22.05.2020

fixed the algorithm for calculating closest points in the Exclusion areas
added the Exclusion zones processing to Geometry GCode generation

21.05.2020

added the Exclusion zones processing to Excellon GCode generation
fixed a non frequent plotting problem for CNCJob objects made out of Excellon objects

19.05.2020

updated the Italian language (translation incomplete)
updated all the language strings to the latest changes; updated the POT file
fixed a possible malfunction in Tool Punch Gerber

18.05.2020

fixed the PDF Tool when importing as Gerber objects
moved all the parsing out of the PDF Tool to a new file ParsePDF in the flatcamParsers folder
trying to fix the pixmap load crash when running a FlatCAMScript
made the workspace label in the status bar clickable and also added a status bar message on status toggle for workspace
modified the GUI for Film and Panelize Tools
moved some of the GUI related methods from FlatCAMApp.App to the flatcamGUI.MainGUI class
moved Shortcuts Tab creation in it's own class
renamed classes to have shorter names and grouped
removed reference to postprocessors and replaced it with preprocessors
more refactoring class names
moved some of the methods from the App class to the ObjectCollection class
moved all the new_object related methods in their own class AppObjects.AppObject
more refactoring; solved some issues introduced by the refactoring
solved a circular import
updated the language translation files to the latest changes (no translation)
working on a new Tool: Etch Compensation Tool -> installed the tool and created the GUI and class template
moved more methods out of appMain class
added confirmation messages for toggle of HUD, Grid, Grid Snap, Axis
added icon in status bar for HUD; clicking on it will toggle the HUD (heads up display)
fixes due of recent changes
fixed issue #417

17.05.2020

added new FlatCAM Tool: Corner Markers Tool which will add line markers in the selected corners of the bounding box of the targeted Gerber object
added a menu entry in Menu -> View for Toggle HUD
solved the issue with the GUI in the Notebook being expanded too much in width due of the FCDoubleSpinner and FCSpinner sizeHint by setting the sizePolicy to Ignored value
fixed the workspace being always A4
added a label in the status bar to show if the workplace is active and what size it is
now the Edit command (either from Menu Edit ->Edit Object) or through the shortcut key (E key) or project tab context menu works also for the CNCJob objects (will open a text Editor with the GCode)
fixed the object collection methods that return a list of objects or names of objects such that they have a parameter now to allow adding to those lists (or not) for the objects of type Script or Document. Thus fixing some of the Tcl commands such Set Origin
reverted the previous changes to object collection; it is better to create empty methods in FlatCAMScript and FlatCAMDocument objects

16.05.2020

worked on the NCC Tool; added a new clear method named 'Combo' which will go through all methods until the clear is done
added a Preferences parameter for font size used in HUD

13.05.2020

updated the French translation strings, made by @micmac (Michel)

12.05.2020

fixed recent issues introduced in Tcl command Drillcncjob
updated the Cncjob to use the 'endxy' parameter which dictates the x,y position at the end of the job
now the Tcl commands Drillcncjob and Cncjob can use the toolchangexy and endxy parameters with or without parenthesis (but no spaces allowed)
modified the Tcl command Paint "single" parameter. Now it's value is a tuple with the x,y coordinates of the single polygon to be painted.
the HUD display state is now persistent between app restarts
updated the Distance Tool such that the right click of the mouse will cancel the tool unless it was a panning move
modified the PlotCanvasLegacy to decide if there is a mouse drag based on the distance between the press event position and the release event position. If the distance is smaller than a delta distance then it is not a drag move.

11.05.2020

removed the labels in status bar that display X,Y positions and replaced it with a HUD display on canvas (combo key SHIFT+H) will toggle the display of the HUD
made the HUD work in Legacy2D mode
fixed situation when the mouse cursor is outside of the canvas and no therefore returning None values
remade the Snap Toolbar presence; now it is always active and situated in the Status Bar
Snap Toolbar is now visible in Fullscreen
in Fullscreen now the Notebook is available but it will be hidden on Fullscreen launch
fixed some minor issues (in the HUD added a separating line, missing an icon in toolbars on first launch)
made sure that the corner snap buttons are shown only in Editors
changed the HUD color when using Dark theme
fix issue in Legacy2D graphic mode where the snap function was not accessible when the PlotCanvasLegacy class was created
modified the HUD in Legacy2D when using Dark Theme to use different colors
modified how the graphic engine change act in Preferences: now only by clicking Apply(or Save) the change will happen. And there is also a message asking for confirmation
re-added the position labels in the status bar; they will be useful if HUD is Off (Altium does the same :) so learn from the best)
fixed the Tcl command Cncjob: there was a problem reported as issue #416. The command did not work due of the dpp parameter
modified the Tcl command Cncjob such that if some of the parameters are not used then the default values will be used (set with set_sys)
modified the Tcl command Drillcncjob to use the defaults when some of the parameters are not used

10.05.2020

fixed the problem with using comma as decimal separator in Grid Snap fields

9.05.2020

modified the GUI for Exclusion areas; now the shapes are displayed in a Table where they can be selected and deleted. Modification applied for Geometry Objects only (for now).
fixed an error when converting units, error that acted when in those fields that accept lists of tools only one tool was added
finished the GUI for exclusion areas both in the Excellon and Geometry Objects. Need to think if to make it visible only in Advanced Mode

8.05.2020

added a parameter to the AppDefaults class, whenever a value in the self.defaults dict change it will call a callback function and send to it the modified key
optimized and fixed some issues in the self.on_toggle_units() method
the Exclusion areas will have all the orange color but the color of the outline will differ according to the type of the object from where it was added (cosmetic use only as the Exclusion areas will be applied globally)
removed the Apply theme button in the Preferences; it is now replaced by the more general buttons (either Save or Apply)
added a confirmation/warning message when applying a new theme

7.05.2020

added a fix so the app close is now clean, with exit code 0 as set
added the ability to add exclusion areas from the Excellon object too. Now there is a difference in color to differentiate from which type of object the exclusion areas were added but they all serve the same purpose

6.05.2020

wip in adding Exclusion areas in Geometry object; each Geometry object has now a storage for shapes (exclusion shapes, should I make them more general?)
changed the above: too many shapes collections and the performance will go down. Created a class ExclusionAreas that holds all the require properties and the Object UI elements will connect to it's methods. This way I can apply this feature to Excellon object too (who is a special type of Geometry Object)
handled the New project event and the object deletion (when all objects are deleted then the exclusion areas will be deleted too)
solved issue with new parameter end_xy when it is None
solved issue with applying theme and not making the change in the Preferences UI. In Preferences UI the theme radio is always Light (white)
now the annotations will invert the selected color in the Preferences, when selecting Dark theme

5.05.2020

fixed an issue that made the preprocessors combo boxes in Preferences not to load and display the saved value fro the file
some PEP8 corrections

4.05.2020

in detachable tabs, Linux loose the reference of the detached tab and on close of the detachable tabs will gave a 'segmentation fault' error. Solved it by not deleting the reference in case of Unix-like systems
some strings added to translation strings

3.05.2020

small changes to allow making the x86 installer that is made from a Python 3.5 run FlatCAM beta
fixed multiple parameter 'outname' in the Tcl commands OpenGerber and OpenGcode
added more examples in the scripts Examples: isolate and cutout examples
updated the Italian translation
updated the translation files
changed the line endings for Makefile and setup_ubuntu.sh files
protected a dict in VispyVisuals from issuing errors of keys changed while iterating through it

2.05.2020

working on a new feature: adding interdiction area for Gcode generation. They will be added in the Geometry Object

2.05.2020

changed the icons for the grid snap in the status bar
moved some of the methods from FlatCAMApp.App to flatcamGUI.MainGUI class
fixed bug in Gerber Editor in which the units conversion wasn't calculated correct
fixed bug in Gerber Editor in which the QThread that is started on object edit was not stopped at clean up stage
fixed bug in Gerber Editor that kept all the apertures (including the geometry) of a previously edited object that was not saved after edit
modified the Cutout Tool to generate multi-geo objects therefore the set geometry parameters will populate the Geometry Object UI
modified the Panelize Tool to optimize the output from Cutout Tool such that there are no longer overlapping cuts
some string corrections
updated the Italian translation done by user @pcb-hobbyst (Golfetto Massimiliano)
RELEASE 8.992

01.05.2020

added some ToolTips (strings needed to be translated too) for the Cut Z entry in Geometry Object UI that explain why is sometime disabled and reason for it's value (sometime is zero)
solve parenting issues when trying to load a FlatScript from Menu -> File -> Scripting
added a first new example script and added some files to work with
added a new parameter that will store the home folder of the FlatCAM installation so we can access the example folder
added in Gerber editor a method for zoom fit that takes into consideration the current geometry of the edited object

30.04.2020

made some corrections - due of recent refactoring PyCharm reported errors all over (not correct but it made programming difficult)
modified the requirements.txt file to force svg.path module to be at least version 4.0
fixed bug in Tools DB that crashed when a tool is copied
in Tools Database added a Save Button whose color is changed in Red if the DB was modified and back to default when the DB is saved.
fixed bug in Tool DB that crashed the app when the Tool Name was modified but there was no tree item (a tool in the list) selected in the Tree widget (list of tools)
now on tool add and tool copy, the last item (tool, which is the one added) is autoselected; o tool delete always the first item (tool) is selected
fixed issue #409; problem was due of an assert I used in the handler of the Menu ->Options -> Flip X(Y) menu entry
activated and updated the editing in the Aperture Table in the Gerber Editor; not all parameters can be edited for every type of aperture
some strings updated
fixed a small issue in loading the Projects

29.04.2020

added a try-except clause in the FlatCAMTranslation.restart_program() when closing the Listener and the thread that runs it to adjust to MacOS usage
more PEP8 changes
in PreferencesUI.PreferencesUIManager class I removed the need to pass reference to the App class since it this was available through the 'ui' parameter
some fixes due to recent refactoring
minor bugs fixed (not so visible)
promoted some methods to be static
set the default layout on first run to the 'minimal' value
modified the method that detects which tab was closed in the Plot Area so it will no longer depend on it's translated text but on it's objectName set on the QTab creation
fixed the merge methods for all FlatCAM objects
fixed a SyntaxError Exception when checking for types of found old preferences
updated the French, German and Spanish Google translations
updated the Romanian translation
fixed units conversion issue
updated the units conversion method to convert all the convertible parameters in the Preferences
solved the problem with not closing all the tabs in Plot Area when creating a New Project; the issue was that once a tab was removed the indexes are remade (when tab 0 is removed then tab 1 becomes tab 0 and so on)
some more strings changed -> updated the translations
replaced some FormLayouts with Gridlayouts in Tool Cutout.

28.04.2020

handled a possible situation in App.load_defaults() method
fixed some issues in FlatCAMDB that may appear in certain scenarios
some minor changes in the Python version detection
added a new Tcl Command named SetPath which will set a path to be used by the Tcl commands. Once set will serve as a fallback path in case that the files fail to be opened first time. It will be persistent, saved in preferences.
added the GUI for the new Open Example in the FIle -> Scripting menu.
I am modifying all the open ... handlers to add a parameter that will flag if the method was launched from Tcl Shell. This way if the method will fail to open the filename (which include the path) it will try to open from a set fallback path.
fixed issue #406, bug introduced recently (leftover changes).
modified the ImportSVG Tcl command name to OpenSVG (open_svg alias)
added a new Tcl command named OpenDXF (open_dxf alias)
fixed some errors in Scripting features
added a new Tcl command named GetPath as a convenient way to get the current default path stored in App.defaults['global_tcl_path']
added a new package to be installed in Linux to make available the black theme for FlatCAM beta
moved all the 'share' resources (icons) to the 'assets/resources' folder
some more fixes to problems generated by latest changes in the open handlers
modified the make_freezed.py script for the new location of the icons
added a fix for the ConnectionRefusedError in Linux that is issued when first running after a FlatCAM crash
in SVG parser modified some imports to be one on each line
fixed the Tcl Command BBox (leftovers from recent global changes)
fixed some typos in strings reported by @pcb-hobbyst on FlatCAM forum
disabled a skip_quotes method in ToolShell.FCShell class so I can now use quotes to enclose file paths with spaces inside

27.04.2020

finished the moving of all Tcl Shell stuff out of the FlatCAAMApp class to flatcamTools.ToolShell class
updated the requirements.txt file to request that the Shapely package needs to be at least version 1.7.0 as it is needed in the latest versions of FlatCAM beta
some TOOD cleanups
minor changes
replaced the testing if instance of FlatCAMObj with testing the obj.kind attribute
removed the import of the whole FlatCAMApp file only for the usage of GracefulException
remove the import of FlatCAMApp and used alternate ways
optimized the imports in some files
moved the Bookmarksmanager and ToolDB classes into their own files
solved some bugs that were not so visible in the Editors and HPGL parser
split the FlatCAMObj file into multiple files located in the flatcamObjects folder and renamed the contained classes with names more suggestive
updated the Google Translation for the German language
added support for Hungarian language - no translation for now
minor changes
moved the ObjectCollection class to the flatcamObjects folder where it belongs
Linux Makefile

25.04.2020

ensured that on Graceful Exit (CTRL+ALT+X key combo) if using Progressive Plotting, the eventual residual plotted lines are deleted. This apply for Tool NCC and Tool Paint
fixed links in Attributions tab in Help -> About FlatCAM to be able to open external links.
updated Google Translations for French and Spanish languages
added some '\n' chars in the Help Tcl command to make the help more readable

24.04.2020

some PEP changes, some method descriptions updated
added a placeholder text to 2Sided Tool
added a new menu entry in the context menu of the Tcl Shell: 'Save Log' which will save the content of the Tcl Shell browser window to a file
the status bar messages that are echoed in the Tcl Shell will no longer have all text colored but only the identifier
some message strings cleanup
added possibility to save as text file the content in Tcl Shell browser window when clicking the Save log context menu entry
fixed an issue regarding the statusbar pixmap selection
update the language template strings.pot and updated the Romanian translation
updated the Readme file with the steps for installation for MacOS
updated the requirements.txt file
updated some of the icons in the dark_resources folder (some added, some modified)
updated Paint Tool for the new Tool DB
updated the Tcl commands CopperClear and Paint

23.04.2020

fixed the Tcl Command Help to work as expected; made the text of the commands to be colored in Red color and bold
added a 'Close' menu entry in the Tcl Shell context menu that will close (hide) the Tcl Shell Dock widget
on launching the Tcl Shell the Edit line will take focus immediately
in App.on_mouse_move_over_plot() method no longer will be done a setFocus() on every move, only when it is needed
added an extra check if old preferences files are detected, a check if the type of the values is the same with the type in the current preferences file. If the type is not the same then the current type is preferred.
aligned the Tcl commands display when the Help Tcl command is run without parameters
fixed the Tcl command Plot_All that malfunctioned if there were any FlatCAM scripts (or FlatCAM documents) open
updated the shortcuts list

22.04.2020

added a new feature, project auto-saving controlled from Edit -> Preferences -> General -> APP. Preferences -> Enable Auto Save checkbox
fixed some bugs in the Tcl Commands
modified the Tcl Commands to be able to use as boolean values keywords with lower case like 'false' instead of expected 'False'
refactored some of the code in the App class and created a new Tcl Command named Help

20.04.2020

made the Grid icon in the status bar clickable and it will toggle the snap to grid function
some mods in the Distance Tool
added ability to use line width when adding shapes for both Legacy and OpenGL graphic engines
added the linewidth=2 parameter for the Tool Distance utility geometry
fixed a selection issue in Legacy graphic mode for single click
added a CHANGELOG file and changed the README file to contain the installation instructions
updated the README file
in Project Tab added tooltips for the loaded objects
fixed a bug in loading objects by drag&drop into the Project Tab where only one object in the selection was loaded

19.04.2020

fixed a bug that did not allow to edit GUI elements of type FCDoubleSpinner if it contained the percent symbol
some small optimizations in the GUI of Cutout Tool
fixed more issues (new) in NCC Tool
added a new layout named 'minimal'
some PEP8 changes in Geometry Editor

15.04.2020

made sure that the Tcl commands descriptions listed on help command are aligned

14.04.2020

lightened the hue of the color for 'success' messages printed in the Tcl Shell browser
modified the extensions all over such the names include also the extension name. For Linux who does not display the extensions in the native FileDialog.
added descriptions for some of the methods in the app.
added lightened icons for the dark theme from Leandro Heck

13.04.2020

added the outname parameter for the geocutout Tcl command
multiple fixes in the Tcl commands (especially regarding the interchange between True/false and 1/0 values)
updated the help for all Tcl Commands
in Tcl Shell, the 'help' command will add also a brief description for each command in the list
updated the App.plot_all() method giving it the possibility to be run as threaded or not
updated the Tcl command PlotAll to be able to run threaded or not
updated the Tcl commands PlotAll and PlotObjects to have a parameter that control if the objects are to be plotted or not on canvas; it serve as a disable/enable
minor update to the autocomplete dictionary
the Show Shell in Edit -> Preferences will now toggle the Tcl shell based on the current status of the Tcl Shell
updated the Tcl command Isolate help for follow parameter
updated DrillCncJob Tcl Command with new parameters and fixed it to work in the new format of the Excellon methods
fixed issue #399
changed CncJob Tcl Command parameter 'depthperpass' to a shorter 'dpp'

11.04.2020

fixed issue #394 - the saveDialog in Linux did not added the selected extension
when the Save button is clicked in the Edit -> Preferences the Preferences tab is closed.

10.04.2020

made sure that the timeout parameter used by some Tcl Commands is seen as an integer in all cases - fixed issue #389
minor changes in Paint Tool
minor changes in GUI (Save locations in Menu -> File) and the key shortcuts - fixed issue #391

9.04.2020

if FlatCAM is not run with Python version >= 3.5 it will exit.
modified all CTRL+ with Ctrl+ and all ALT+ with Alt+ and all SHIFT+ with Shift+. Fixed issue #387.
removed some packages from setup_ubuntu.sh as they are not needed in FlatCAM beta

8.4.2020

fixed the Tcl Command Delete to have an argument -f that will force deletion evading the popup (if the popup is enabled). The sme command without a name now will delete all objects
fixed the Tcl Command JoinExcellons
fixed the Tcl Command JoinGeometry
fixed the Tcl Command Mirror
updated the Tcl Command Mirror to use a (X,Y) origin parameter. Works if the -box parameter is not used.
updated the Tcl Command Offset. Now it can use only -x or -y parameter no longer is mandatory to have both. The one that is not present will be assumed 0.0
updated the Tcl Command Panelize. The -rows and -columns parameters are no longer both required. If one is not present then it is assumed to be zero.
updated the Tcl Command Scale. THe -origin parameter can now be a tuple of (x,y) coordinates.
updated the Tcl Command Skew. Now it can use only -x or -y parameter no longer is mandatory to have both. The one that is not present will be assumed 0.0
updated the help for all the Tcl Commands

6.04.2020

added key shortcuts (arrow up/down) that will select the objects in the Project tab if the focus is in that tab
added a minor change to the ListSys Tcl command
fixed an crash generated when running the Tool Database from the Menu -> Options menu entry
fixed a bug in handling the UP/DOWN key shortcuts that caused a crash when no object was selected in the Project Tab; also made sure that the said keys are handled only for the Project Tab
some PEP8 changes and other minor changes
updated the requirements file
updated the 2Sided Tool by not allowing the Gerber file to be mirrored without a valid reference and added some placeholder texts

5.04.2020

made sure that the HDPI scaling attribute is set before the QApplication is started
made sure that when saving a project, the app will try to update the active object from UI form only if there is an active object
fix for contextual menus on canvas when using PyQt versions > 5.12.1
decision on which mouse button to use for panning is done now once when setting the plotcanvas
fix to work with Python 3.8 (closing the application)
fixed bug in Gerber parser that allowed loading as Gerber of a file that is not a Gerber
fixed a bug in extension detection for Gerber files that allowed in the filtered list files that extension .gb
added a processEvents method in the Gerber parser parse_lines() method
fixed issue #386 - multiple Cut operation on a edited object created a crash due of the bounds() method
some changes in the Geometry UI

4.04.2020

fixed the Repeated code parsing in Excellon Parse

1.04.2020

updated the SVG parser to take into consideration the 'Close' svg element and paths that are made from a single line (we may need to switch to svgpathtools module)
minor changes to increase compatibility with Python 3.8
PEP8 changes

30.03.2020

working to update the Paint Tool
fixed some issues in Paint Tool

29.03.2020

modified the new database to accept data from NCC and Paint Tools
fixed issues in the new database when adding the tool in a Geometry object
fixed a bug in Geometry object that generated a change of dictionary while iterating over it
started to add the new database links in the NCC and Paint Tools
in the new Tools DB added ability to double click on the ID in the tree widget to execute adding a tool from DB
working in updating NCC Tool

28.03.2020

finished the new database based on a QTreeWidget

21.03.2020

fixed Cutout Tool to work with negative values for Margin parameter

20.03.2020

updated the "re-cut" feature in Geometry object; now if the re-cut parameter is non zero it will cut half of the entered distance before the isolation end and half of it after the isolation end
added to Paint and NCC Tool a feature that allow polygon area selection when the reference is selected as Area Selection
in Paint Tool and NCC Tool added ability to use Escape Tool to cancel Area Selection and for Paint Tool to cancel Polygon Selection
fixed issue in "re-cut" feature when combined with multi-depth feature
fixed bugs in cncjob TclCommand

13.03.2020

fixed a bug in CNCJob generation out of a Excellon object; the plot failed in case some of the geometry of the CNCJob was invalid
fixed Properties Tool due of recent changes to the FCTree widget

12.03.2020

working on the new database
fix a bug in the TextInputTool in FlatCAM Geometry Editor that crashed the sw when some fonts are not loaded correctly

4.03.2020

updated all the FlatCAM Tools and the Gerber UI FCComboBoxes to update the box value with the latest object loaded in the App
some fixes in the NCC Tool
modified some strings

02.03.2020

added property that allow the FCComboBox to update the view with the last item loaded; updated the app to use this property

01.03.2020

updated the CutOut Tool such that while adding manual gaps, the cutting geometry is updated on-the-fly if the gap size or tool diameter parameters are adjusted
updated the UI in Geometry Editor

29.02.2020

compacted the NCC Tool UI by replacing some Radio buttons with Combo boxes due of too many elements
fixed error in CutOut Tool when trying to create a FreeFrom Cutout out of a Gerber object with the Convex Shape checked
working on a new type of database

28.02.2020

some small changes in preprocessors
solved issue #381 where there was an error when trying to generate CNCJob out of an Excellon file that have a tool with only slots and no drills
solved some issues in the preprocessors regarding the newly introduced feature that allow control of the final move X,Y positions

25.02.2020

fixed bug in Gerber parser: it tried to calculate a len() for a single element and not a list - a Gerber generated by Eagle exhibited this
added a new parameter named 'End Move X,Y' for the Geometry and Excellon objects. Adding a tuple of coordinates in this field will control the X,Y position of the final move; not entering a value there will cause not to make an end move

20.02.2020

in Paint Tool replaced the Selection radio with a combobox GUI element that is more compact
in NCC Tool modified the UI

19.02.2020

fixed some issues in the Geometry Editor; the jump signal disconnect was failing for repeated Editor tool operation
fixed an issue in Gerber Editor where the multiprocessing pool was reported as closed and an ValueError exception was raised in a certain scneraio
on Set Origin, Move to Origin and Move actions for Gerber and Excellon objects the source file will be also updated (the export functions will export an updated object)
in FlatCAMObj.export_gerber() method took into account the possibility of polygons of type 'clear' (the ones found in the Gerber files under the LPC command)

17.02.2020

updated the Excellon UI to hold data for each tool
in Excellon UI removed the tools table column for Offset Z and used the UI form parameter
updated the Excellon Editor to add for each tool a 'data' dictionary
updated all FlatCAM tools to use the new confirmation message that show if the entered value is within range or outside
updated all FlatCAM tools to use the new confirmation message for QSpinBoxes, too
in Excellon UI protected the values that are common parameters from change on tool selection change
fixed some issues related to the usage of the new confirmation message in FlatCAM Tools
made sure that the FlatCAM Tools UI initialization is done only in set_tool_ui() method and not in the constructor
adapted the GCode generation from Excellon to work with multiple tools data and modified the preprocessors header
when multiple tools are selected in Excellon UI and parameters are modified it will applied to all selected
in Excellon UI, Paint Tool and NCC Tool finished the "Apply parameters to all tools" functionality
updated Paint Tool and NCC Tool in the UI functionality
fixed the Offset spinbox not being controller by offset checkbox in NCC Tool

16.02.2020

small update to NCC Tool UI

15.02.2020

in Paint Tool added a new method of painting named Combo who will pass through all the methods until the polygon is cleared
in Paint Tool attempting to add a new mode suitable for Laser usage
more work in the new Laser Mode in the Paint Tool
modified the Paint Tool UI

14.02.2020

adjusted the UI for Excellon and Geometry objects
added a new FlatCAM Tool: Gerber Invert Tool. It will invert the copper features in a Gerber file: where is copper there will be empty and where is empty it will be copper
added the Preferences entries for the Gerber Invert Tool

13.02.2020

finished Punch Gerber Tool
minor changes in the Tool Transform and Tool Calculators UI to bring them up2date with the other tools

12.02.2020

working on fixing a bug in GeometryObject.merge() - FIXED issue #380
fixed bug: when deleting a FlatCAMCNCJob with annotations enabled, the annotations are not deleted from canvas; fixed issue #379
fixed bug: creating a new project while a project is open and it contain CNCJob annotations and/or Gerber mark shapes, did not delete them from canvas

11.02.2020

working on Tool Punch; finished the geometry update with the clear geometry for the case of Excellon method
working on Tool Punch; finished the geometry update with the clear geometry for the case of Fixed Diameter method

10.02.2020

optimized the Paint and NCC Tools. When the Lines type of painting/clearing is used, the lines will try to arrange themselves on the direction that the lines length clearing the polygon are bigger
solved bug that made drilling with Marlin preprocessor very slow
applied the fix for above bug to the TclCommand Drillcncjob too
started a new way to clear the Gerber polygons based on the 'follow' lines
some cleanup and bug fixes for the Paint Tool

8.02.2020

added a new preprocessor for using laser on a Marlin 3D printer named 'Marlin_laser_use_Spindle_pin'
modified the Geometry UI when using laser preprocessors
added a new preprocessor file for using laser on a Marlin motion controller but with the laser connected to one of the FAN pins, named 'Marlin_laser_use_FAN_pin'
modified the Excellon GCode generation so now it can use multi depth drilling; modified the preprocessors to show the number of passes

5.02.2020

Modified the Distance Tool such that the Measure button can't be clicked while measuring is in progress
optimized selection of drills in the Excellon Editor
fixed bugs in multiple selection in Excellon Editor
fixed selection problems in Gerber Editor
in Distance Tool, when run in the Excellon or Gerber Editor, added a new option to snap to center of the geometry (drill for Excellon, pad for Gerber)

3.02.2020

modified Spinbox and DoubleSpinbox Custom UI elements such that they issue a warning status message when the typed value is out of range
fixed the preprocessors with 'laser' in the name to use the spindle direction set in the Preferences
increased the upper limit for feedrates by an order of magnitude

2.02.2020

fixed issue #376 where the V-Shape parameters from Gerber UI are not transferred to the resulting Geometry object if the 'combine' checkbox is not checked in the Gerber UI
in Excellon UI, if Basic application mode is selected in Preferences, the Plot column 'P' is hidden now because some inexperienced users mistake this column checkboxes for tool selection
fixed an error in Gerber Parser; the initial values for current_x, current_y were None but should have been 0.0
limited the lower limit of angle of V-tip to a value of 1 because 0 makes no sense
small changes in Gerber UI
in Geometry Editor make sure that after an edit is finished (correctly or forced) the QTree in the Editor UI is cleared of items

31.01.2020

added a new functionality, a variation of Set Origin named Move to Origin. It will move a selection of objects to origin such as the bottom left corner of the bounding box that fit them all is in origin.
fixed some bugs
fixed a division by zero error: fixed #377

30.01.2020

remade GUI in Tool Cutout, Tool Align Objects, Tool Panelize
some changed in the Excellon UI
some UI changes in the common object UI

29.01.2020

changes in how the Editor exit is handled
small fix in some pywin32 imports
remade the GUI + small fixes in 2Sided Tool
updated 2Sided Tool

28.01.2020

some changes in Excellon Editor

27.01.2020

in Geometry Editor made sure that on final save, for MultiLineString geometry all the connected lines are merged into one LineString to minimize the number of vertical movements in GCode
more work in Punch Gerber Tool
the Jump To popup window will now autoselect the LineEdit therefore no more need for an extra click after launching the function
made some structural changes in Properties Tool
started to make some changes in Geometry Editor
finished adding in Geometry Editor a TreeWidget with the geometry shapes found in the edited object

24.02.2020

small changes to the Toolchange manual preprocessor
fix for plotting Excellon objects if the color is changed and then the object is moved
laying the GUI for a new Tool: Punch Gerber Tool which will add holes in the Gerber apertures
fixed bugs in Minimum Distance Tool
update in the GUI for the Punch Gerber Tool

22.01.2020

fixed a bug in the bounding box generation

19.01.2020

fixed some bugs that are visible in Linux regarding the ArgsThread class: on app close we need to quit the QThread running the ArgsThread class and also close the opened Socket
make sure that the fixes above apply when rebooting app for theme change or for language change
fixed and issue that made setting colors for the Gerber file not possible if using a translation
made possible to set the colors for Excellon objects too
added to the possible colors the fundamentals: black and white
in the project context menu for setting colors added the option to set the transparency and also a default option which revert the color to the default value set in the Preferences

17.01.2020

more changes to Excellon UI
changes to Geometry UI
more work in NCC Tool upgrade; each tool now work with it's own set of parameters
some updates in NCC Tool
optimized the object envelope generation in the redesigned NCC Tool

16.01.2020

updated/optimized the GUI in Preferences for Paint Tool and for NCC Tool
work in Paint Tool to bring it up to date with NCC Tool
updated the GUI in preferences for Calculator Tool
a small change in the Excellon UI
updated the Excellon and Geometry UI to be similar
put bases for future changes to Excellon Object UI such that each tool will hold it's own parameters
in ParseExcellon.Excellon the self.tools dict has now a key 'data' which holds a dict with all the default values for Excellon and Geometry
Excellon and Geometry objects, when started with multiple tools selected, the parameters tool name reflect this situation
moved default_data data update from Excellon parser to the Excellon object constructor

15.01.2020

added key shortcuts and toolbar icons for the new tools: Align Object Tool (Alt+A) and Extract Drills (Alt+I)
added new functionality (key shortcut Shift+J) to locate the corners of the bounding box (and center) in a selected object
modified the NCC Tool GUI to prepare for accepting a tool from a tool database
started to modify the Paint Tool to be similar to NCC Tool and to accept a tool from a database
work in Paint Tool GUI functionality

14.01.2020

in Extract Drill Tool added a new method of drills extraction. The methods are: fixed diameter, fixed annular ring and proportional
in Align Objects Tool finished the Single Point method of alignment
working on the Dual Point option in Align Objects Tool - angle has to be recalculated
finished Dual Point option in Align Objects Tool

13.01.2020

fixed a small GUI issue in Excellon UI when Basic mode is active
started the add of a new Tool: Align Objects Tool which will align (sync) objects of Gerber or Excellon type
fixed an issue in Gerber parser introduced recently due of changes made to make Gerber files produced by Sprint Layout
working on the Align Objects Tool

12.01.2020

improved the circle approximation resolution
fixed an issue in Gerber parser with detecting old kind of units
if CTRL key is pressed during app startup the app will start in the Legacy(2D) graphic engine compatibility mode

11.01.2020

fixed an issue in the Distance Tool
expanded the Extract Drills Tool to use a particular annular ring for each type of aperture flash (pad)
Extract Drills Tool: fixed issue with oblong pads and with pads made from aperture macros
Extract Drills Tool: added controls in Edit -> Preferences

10.02.2020

working on a new tool: Extract Drills Tool who will create a Excellon object out of the apertures of a Gerber object
finished the GUI in the Extract Drills Tool
fixed issue in Film Tool where some parameters names in calls of method export_positive_handler() were not matching the actual parameters name
finished the Extract Drills Tool
fixed a small issue in the DoubleSided Tool

8.01.2020

working in NCC Tool
selected rows in the Tools Tables will stay colored in blue after loosing focus instead of the default gray
in NCC Tool the Tool name in the Parameters section will be the Tool ID in the Tool Table
added an exception catch in case the plotcanvas init failed for the OpenGL graphic engine and warn user about what happened

7.01.2020

solved issue #368 - when using the Enable/Disable prj context menu entries the plotted status is not updated in the object properties
updates in NCC Tool

6.01.2020

working on new NCC Tool

2.01.2020

started to rework the NCC Tool GUI in preparation for adding a Tool DB feature
for auto-completer, now clicking an entry in the completer popup will select that entry and insert it
made available only for Linux and Windows (not OSX) the starting of the thread that checks if another instance of FlatCAM is already running at the launch of FLatCAM
modified Toggle Workspace function to work in the new Preferences UI configuration
cleaned the app from progress signal usage since it is not used anymore

1.01.2020

fixed bug in NCC Tool: after trying to add a tool already in the Tool Table when trying to change the Tool Type the GUI does not change
final fix for app not quiting when running a script as argument, script that has the quit_flatcam Tcl command; fixed issue #360
fixed issue #363. The Tcl command drillcncjob does not create tool cut, does not allow creation of gcode, it forces the usage of dwell and dwelltime parameters
in NCC Tool I've added a warning so the user is warned that the NCC margin has to have a value of at least the tool diameter that is doing an iso_op job in the Tool Table
modified the Drillcncjob and Cncjob Tcl commands to be allowed to work without the 'dwell' and 'toolchange' arguments. If 'dwelltime' argument is present it will be assumed that the 'dwell' is True and the same for 'toolchangez' parameter, if present then 'toolchange' will be assumed to be True, else False
modified the extracut and multidepth parameters in Cncjob Tcl command like for dwell and toolchange
added ability for Tcl commands to have optional arguments with None value (meaning missing value). This case should be treated for each Tcl command in execute() method
fixed the Drillcncjob Tcl command by adding an custom self.options key "Tools_in_use" and build it's value, in case it does not exist, to make the toolchange command work
middle mouse click on closable tabs will close them

30.12.2019

Buffer sub-tool in Transform Tool: added the possibility to apply a factor effectively scaling the aperture size thus the copper features sizes
in Transform Tool adjusted the GUI
fixed some decimals issues in NCC Tool, Paint Tool and Excellon Editor (they were still using the hardcoded values)
some small updates in the NCC Tool
changes in the Preferences UI for NCC and Paint Tool in Tool Dia entry field
fixed Tcl commands that use the overlap parameter to switch from fraction to percentage
in Transform Tool made sure that the buffer sub-tool parameters are better explained in tooltips
attempt to make TclCommand quit_flatcam work under Linux
some fixes in the NCC Tcl command (using the bool() method on some params)
another attempt to make TclCommand quit_flatcam work under Linux
another attempt to make TclCommand quit_flatcam work under Linux - use signal to call a hard exit when in Linux
TclCommand quit_flatcam work under Linux

29.12.2019

the Apply button text in Preferences is now made red when changes were made and require to be applied
the Gerber UI is built only once now so the process is lighter on CPU
the Gerber apertures marking shapes storage is now built only once because the more are built the more sluggish is the interface
added a new function called by shortcut key combo Ctrl+G when the current widget in Plot Area is an Code Editor. It will jump to the specified line in the text.
fixed a small bug where the app tried to hide a label that I've removed previously
in Paint Tool Preferences is allowed to add a list of initial tools separated by comma
in Geometry Paint Tool fixed the Overlap rate to work between 0 and 99.9999%

28.12.2019

more updates to the Preferences window and in some other parts of the GUI
updated the translations (less Russian)
fixed a minor issue that when saving a project with CNCJob objects, the variable that holds the origin of the CNCJob object was not saved in the project. Added to the serializable objects also the exc_cnc_tools dictionary
some changes in the File menu

28.12.2019

updated all the translations files
fixed the big mouse cursor in OpenGL(3D) graphic mode to get the set color
fixed the cursor to have the set color and set cursor width in the Legacy(2D) graphic engine
in Legacy(2D) graphic mode fixed the cursor toggle when the big cursor is activated
in Legacy(2D) fixed big mouse cursor to snap to the grid
RELEASE 8.991

27.12.2019

updated the POT file and the translation files for German, Spanish and French languages
fixed some typos

26.12.2019

modified the ToolDB class and changed some strings
Preferences classes now have access to the App attributes through app.setup_obj_classes() method
moved app.setup_obj_classes() upper in the App.init()
added a new Preferences setting allowing to modify the mouse cursor color
remade the GUI in Preferences -> General grouping the settings in a more clear way
made available the Jump To function in Excellon Editor
added a clean_up() method in all the Editor Tools that need it, to be run when aborting using the ESC key
fixed an error in the Gerber parser; it did not took into consideration the aperture size declared before the beginning of a Gerber region. Detected for Gerber files generated by KiCAD 5.x
in Panelize Tool made sure that for Gerber objects if one of the apertures is without geometry then it is ignored
further modifications in Preferences -> General GUI
further modifications in Preferences -> General GUI - extended the changes
in Legacy(2D) graphic engine made to work the mouse color change
theme changing is no longer auto-reboot upon change; it require now to press a button
cleaned the Preferences classes and added the signals and signal slots in those classes, removing them from the main app class
each FlatCAM object found in Preferences has it's own set of controls for changing the colors
added a set of gray icons to be used when the theme is complete dark (for now it is useful only for MacOS with dark theme because at the moment the app is not styled to dark UI except the plot area)

25.12.2019

fixed an issue in old default file detection and in saving the factory defaults file
in Preferences window removed the Import/Export Preferences buttons because they are redundant with the entries in the File -> Menu -> Backup. and added a button to Restore Defaults
when in Basic mode the Tool type of the tool in the Geometry UI Tool Table after isolating a Gerber object is automatically selected as 'C1'
let the multiprocessing Pool have as many processes as needed
added a new Preferences setting allowing a custom mouse line width (to make it thicker or thinner)
changed the extension of the Tool Database file to FlatDB for easy recognition (in the future double clicking such a file might import the new tools in the FC database)

24.12.2019

edited some icons so they don't contain white background
fixed an incorrect usage of object in the app.select_objects() method
fixed a typo in ToolDB.on_tool_add()

23.12.2019

some fixes in the Legacy(2D) graphic mode regarding the possibility of changing the color of the Gerber objects
added a method to darken the outline color for Gerber objects when they have the color set
when Printing as PDF Gerber objects now the rendered color is the print color
speed up the plotting in OpenGL(3D) graphic mode
speed up the color setting for Gerber object when using the OpenGL(3D) graphic mode
setting color for Gerber objects work on a selection of Gerber objects
~~when the selection is changed in the Project Tree the selection shape on canvas is deleted~~
if an object is selected on Project Tree and it does not have the selection shape drawn, first click on canvas over it will draw the selection shape
in Tool Transform added a new feature named 'Buffer'. For Geometry and Gerber objects will create (and replace) a geometry at a distance from the original geometry and for Excellon will adjust the Tool diameters
solved issue #355 - when the tool diameter field in the Edit → Preferences → Geometry → Geometry General → Tools → Tool dia is only one the app failed to read it
solved issue #356 - in Tools DB can not be added more than one tool if a translation is active
some changes related to the fact that the geometry default tool diameter value can be comma separated string of tool diameters

22.12.2019

added a new option for the Gerber objects: on the project context menu now can be chosen a color for the selected Gerber object
fixed issue in Gerber UI where a label was not hidden when in Basic mode
added the color parameters of the objects to the serializable attributes
fixed Gerber object color set for Legacy(2D) graphic engine; glitch on the OpenGL(3D) graphic engine
fixed the above mentioned glitch in the OpenGL(3D) graphic engine when an Gerber object has been set with a color

21.12.2019

fixed a typo in Distance Tool

20.12.2019

fixed a rare issue in the generation of non-copper-region geometry started from the Gerber Object UI (selected tab)
Print function is now printing a PDF file for a selection of objects in the colors from canvas
added an icon in the infobar that will show more clearly the status of the grid snapping
in Geometry Object UI (selected tab) when a tool type is changed from no matter what to V-shape, the cut_z value is saved and when the tool type is changed back to something different than V-shape, this saved cut-z value is restored
fixed re-cut length entry not staying disabled when the re-cut cb is not checked

19.12.2019

in 2-Sided Tool added a way to calculate the bounding box values for a selection of objects, and also the centroid
in 2-Sided Tool fixed the Reset Tool button handler to reset the bounds value too; changed a string
added Preferences values for PDF margins when saving text in Code Editor as PDF
when clicking Cancel in Preferences now the values are reverted to what they used to be before opening Preferences tab and start changing values
starting to work to a general Print function; for now it will generate PDF files; currently it works only for one object not for a selection
added shortcut key Ctrl+P for printing to PDF method

18.12.2019

added new parameters to improve Gerber parsing
small optimizations in the Preferences UI
the Jump To function reference is now saving it's last used value
added the ability to use the Jump To method in the Gerber Editor
improved the loading of Config File by using the advanced code editor
fixed a bug in the new feature 'extra buffering'
fixed the creation of CNCJob objects out of multigeo Geometry objects (objects with multiple tools)
optimized the NCC Tool

17.12.2019

more optimizations in NCC Tool
optimizations in Paint Tool
maximum range for Cut Z is now zero to deal with the situation when using V-shape with tip-dia same value with cut width
modified QValidator in FCDoubleSpinner() GUI element to allow entering the minus sign when the range maximum is set as 0.0; also for positive numbers allowed entering the symbol plus
made sure that if in Gerber UI the isolation is made with a V-Shape tool then the tool type is automatically updated on the generated Geometry Object
added ability to save the Source File as PDF (still have to adjust the page size)
fixed the generate_from_geometry_2() method to use the default values in case the parameters are None
added ability to save the Source File as PDF - fixed page size and added line breaks
more mods to generate_from_geometry_2() method
fixed bug saving the FlatCAM project saying the file is used by another application
fixed issue #347 - a Gerber generated by Sprint Layout with copper pour ON will not have rendered the copper pour

16.12.2019

in Geometry Editor added support for Jump To function such as that it works within the Editor Tools themselves. For now it works only in absolute jumps
modified the Jump To method such that now allows relative jump from the current mouse location
fixed the Defaults upgrade overwriting the new version number with the old one
fixed issue with clear_polygon3() - the one who makes 'lines' and fixed the NCC Tool
some small changes in the GeometryObject.on_tool_add() method
made sure that in Geometry Editor the self.app.mouse attribute is updated with the current mouse position (x, y)
updated the preprocessor files
fixed the HPGL preprocessor
fixed the CNCJob geometry created with HPGL preprocessor
fixed GCode generated with HPGL preprocessor to output only integer coordinates
fixed the HPGL2 import parsing for absolute linear movements
fixed the line endings for setup_ubuntu.sh

15.12.2019

fixed a bug that created a crash in special conditions; it's related to the QSettings in FlatCAMGui.py
added a script to remove the bad profiles from resource pictures. From here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22745076/libpng-warning-iccp-known-incorrect-srgb-profile/43415650, link mentioned by @camellan (Andrey Kultyapov)
prepared the application for usage of dark icons in case of using the dark theme
updated the languages
fixed a typo
fixed layout on first launch of the app
fixed some issues with the recent preparation for dark icons resource usage
added a new preprocessor file contributed by Daniel Friderich and added fixes for it
modified the export_gcode() method and the preprocessors such that the preprocessors now have the information if to include the gcode header
updated all the translation PO files and the POT file
RELEASE 8.99

14.12.2019

finished the strings update in the Google-translated Spanish
finished the strings update in the Google-translated French

13.12.2019

HPGL2 import: added support for circles, arcs and 3-point arcs. Everything works only for absolute coordinates.
removed the .plt extension from Gcode extensions
some strings updated; update on the Romanian translate
more strings updated; finished the Romanian translation update
some work in updating the Spanish Google-translation
small updates (Google Translate) in Russian and Brazilian-PT languages

12.12.2019

finished the Calibration Tool
changed the Scale Entry in Object UI to FCEntry() GUI element in order to allow expressions to be entered. E.g: 1/25.4
some small changes in the Scale button handler in FlatCAMObj() class
added option to save objects as PDF files in File -> Save menu
optimized the GerberObject.clear_plot_apertures() method
some changes in the ObjectUI and for the Geometry UI
finished a very rough and limited HPGL2 file import

11.12.2019

started work in HPGL2 parser
some more work in Calibration Tool

10.12.2019

small changes in the Geometry UI
now extracut option in the Geometry Object will recut as many points as many they are within the specified re-cut length
if extracut_length is zero then the extracut will cut up until the first point in path no matter what the distance is
in Gerber isolation, when selection mode is checked, now area selection works too
in CNCJob UI, now the CNCJob objects made out of Excellon objects will display their CNC tools (drill bits)
fixed a cumulative error when using the Tool Offset for Excellon objects
added the display of the real depth of cut (cut z + offset_z) for CNC tools made out of an Excellon object
for OpenGL graphic mode added a fit_view() execution on canvas initialization
fixed Excellon scaling the UI values
replaced the SpindleSpeed entry with a FCSpinner() GUI element; if speed is set to 0 it will amount to None

9.12.2019

updated the border for fit view on OpenGL graphic mode
Calibration Tool - added preferences values
Calibration Tool - more work on it
reverted this change: "selected object in Project used to ask twice for UI build" because it will not build the UI when a tab is closed for Document object and the object is selected
fixed issue after Geometry object edit; the GCode made from an edited object did not reflect the changes in the object
in Object UI, the Scale FCDoubleSpinner will no longer work for Return key press due of issues of unwanted scaling on focusOut event
in GeometryObject fixed the scale and offset methods to always process the self.solid_geometry
Calibration Tool - finished the calibrated object creation method
updated the POT file
fixed an error in the German PO file
updated the languages PO files
some fixes on the app.jump_to() method
made sure that the ToolFilm will not start saving a file if there are no objects loaded
some fixes on the app.jump_to() method for the Legacy(2D) graphic mode

8.12.2019

Calibrate Tool - rearranged the GUI
in Geometry UI made sure that the Label that points to the Tool parameters show clearly that those parameters apply only for the selected tool
fixed an small issue in Object UI
small fixes: selected object in Project used to ask twice for UI build; if scale factor in Object UI is 1 do nothing as there is no point in scaling with a factor of 1
in Geometry UI added a button that allow updating all the tools in the Tool Table with the current values in the UI form
updated Tcl commands to make use of either 0 or False for False value or 1 or True for True in case of a parameter with type Bool

7.12.2019

renamed Calibrate Excellon Tool to a simpler Calibrate Tool
Calibrate Tool - when generating verification GCode it will always load into an Editor from which it can be edited and/or saved. On save the editor will close.
updated the CNCJob and Drillcncjob Tcl Commands to use 0 and 1 as values for the parameters that are stated as of bool type, beside the normal keywords of False and True
Calibrate Tool - working on it

6.12.2019

fixed the toggle_units() method so now the grid values are accurate to the decimal
cleaned up the Excellon parser and fixed some bugs (old and new); Excellon parser has it's own convert_units() method no longer inheriting from Geometry
in Excellon UI fixed bug that did not allow editing of the Offset Z parameter from the Tool table
in Properties Tool added new information's for the tools in the CNCjob objects
few bugs solved regarding the newly created empty objects
changed everywhere the name "preprocessor" with "preprocessor"
updated the preprocessor files in the toolchange section in order to avoid a graphical representation of travel lines glitch
fixed a GUI glitch in the Excellon tool table
added units to some of the parameters in the Properties Tool

5.12.2019

in NCC Tool, the new Geometry object that is created on copper clear now has the solid_geometry attribute where the geometry is stored not only in the obj.tools attribute
Copper Thieving Tool - added units label for the pattern plated area
Properties Tool - added a new parameter, the copper area which show the area of the copper features for the Gerber objects
Copper Thieving Tool - added a default value for the mask clearance when generating pattern plating mask
application wide change: introduced the precision parameters in Edit -> Preferences who will control how many decimals to use in the app parameters
changed the FCDoubleSpinner, FCSpinner and FCEntry GUI elements to allow passing an alignment value: left, right or center (not yet available in the app)
fixed the GUI of the Geometry Editor Tool Transform and adapted it to use the precision setting
updated Gerber Editor to use the precision setting and the Gerber Editor Transform Tool to use the FCDoubleSpinner GUI element
in Properties Tool added more information's regarding the Excellon tools, about travelled distance and job time; fixed issues when doing Properties on the CNCjob objects
TODO: I need to solve the mess in units conversion: it's too convoluted

4.12.2019

made sure that if an older preferences file is detected then there are no errors and only the parameters that are currently active are loaded; the factory defaults file is deleted and recreated in the new format
in Preferences added a new button: 'Close' to close the Preferences window without saving
fixed bug in FCSpinner and FCDoubleSpinner GUI elements, that are now the main GUI element in FlatCAM, that made partial selection difficult
updated the Paint Tool in Geometry Editor to use the FCDoubleSpinner
added the possibility for suffix presence on the FCSpinner and FCDoubleSpinner GUI Elements
added the '%' symbol for overlap fields; I still need to divide the content by 100 to get the original (0 ... 1) value
fixed the overlap parameter all over the app to reflect the change to percentage
in Copper Thieving Tool added the display of the patterned plated area (approximate area)
Copper Thieving Tool - updated the way plated area is calculated making it a bit more precise but still it is a bit bigger than the actual area
fixed the Copy Object function to copy also the source_file content
Copper Thieving Tool - when the clearance value for the pattern plating mask is negative it will be applied to the origin soldermask too
modified the GUI in all tools making the text of the buttons bold and adding a new button named Reset Tool which have to reset the tool GUI and variables (need to check all tools to see if happen)
when the Tool tab is in focus, clicking on canvas will no longer change the focus to Project tab
Copper Thieving Tool - when creating the pattern platting mask will make a new Gerber object with it
small fix in the GUI layout in Gerber Editor

3.12.2019

in Preferences added an Apply button which apply the modified preferences but does not save to a file, minimizing the file IO operations; Ctrl+S key combo does the Apply now.
updated some of the default values to metric, values that were missed previously
remade the Gerber Editor way to import an Gerber object into the editor in such a way to use the multiprocessing
various small fixes
fix for toggle grid lines updating canvas only after moving the mouse (hack, actually)
some changes in the UI layout in Cutout Tool
added some geometry parameters in Cutout Tool as a convenience, to be passed to the generated Geometry objects

2.12.2019

fixed issue #343; updated the Image Tool
improvements in Importing SVG as Gerber - added an automatic source generation (it is not infallible)
a hack to import correctly the QRCode exported as SVG from FlatCAM
added 3 new tcl commands: export dxf, export excellon and export gerber
added a Cancel button in Tools DB when requesting to add a tool in the Geometry Tool Table
modified the default values for the METRIC system; the app now starts in the METRIC units since the majority of the world use the METRIC units system
small changes, updated the estimated release date
Tool Copper Thieving - added pattern plating mask generation feature

28.11.2019

small fixes in NCC Tool and in the GeometryObject class

27.11.2019

in Tool Film added the page size and page orientation in case of saving the film as PDF file
the application workspace has now a lot more options selectable in the Edit -> Preferences -> General -> GUI Preferences
updated the drawing of the workspace such that the application overall start time is improved and after first turn on of the workspace, toggling it will have no performance penalty
updated the workspace functions to work in Legacy(2D) graphic mode
adjusted the selection color transparency for the Legacy(2D) graphic mode because it was too transparent for the fill

26.11.2019

updated the Film Tool to allow exporting PDF and PNG file (besides the SVG file)

25.11.2019

In Gerber isolation changed the UI
in Gerber isolation added the option to selectively isolate only certain polygons
made some optimizations in GerberObject.isolate() method
updated the 'single' isolation of Gerber polygons to remove the polygon if clicked on it and it is already in the list of single polygons to be isolated
clicking to add a polygon when doing Single type isolation will add a blue shape marking the selected polygon, second click will remove that shape
fixed bugs in Paint Tool when painting single polygon
in Gerber isolation added the option to selectively isolate only certain polygons - made it to work for Legacy(2D) graphic mode
remade the Paint Tool - single polygon painting; now it can single paint a list of polygons that are clicked onto (right click will start the actual painting)

23.11.2019

in Tool Fiducials added a new fiducial type: chess pattern
work in Calibrate Excellon Tool
fixed the line numbers in the TextPlainEdit to fit all digits of the line number; activated the line numbers for ScriptObject objects too
line numbers in the TextPlainEdit for the selected line are bold
made sure that the self.defaults dictionary is deepcopy-ed in the self.options dictionary
made sure that the units are read from the self.defaults and not from the GUI
added Robber Bar option to Copper Thieving Tool

22.11.2019

Tool Fiducials - added GUI in Preferences and entries in self.defaults dict
Tool Fiducials - updated the source_file object for the modified Gerber files
working on adding line numbers to the TextPlainEdit
GCode view now has line numbers
solved a bug that made selection of objects on canvas impossible if there is an object of type ScriptObject or DocumentObject opened

21.11.2019

Tool Fiducials - finished the part with adding copper fiducials: manual and auto
Tool Fiducials - added choice of shapes: circular or non-standard cross
Tool Fiducials - finished the work on adding soldermask openings
Tool Fiducials - finished the tool
updated requirements.txt and setup_ubuntu.sh files

20.11.2019

Tool Fiducials - added the GUI and the shortcut key
Tool Fiducials - updated the icon

19.11.2019

removed the f-strings replacing them with the traditional string formatting due of not being supported by older versions of Python 3
fixed some TclCommands: MillDrills and OpenGerber
fixed bug in Tool Subtract that did not allow subtracting Gerber objects
starting to work on Tool Fiducials - created the file

18.11.2019

finished the Dots and Squares options in the Copper Thieving Tool
working on the Lines option in Copper Thieving Tool
finished the Lines option in the Copper Thieving Tool; still have to add threading to maximize performance
finished Copper Thieving Tool improvements
working on the Calibrate Excellon Tool - remade the UI

17.11.2019

optimized the storage of the Gerber mark shapes by making them one layer only
optimized the Distance Tool such that the distance utility geometry will be shown even when the mark shapes are plotted.
updated the make_freezed.py file to make sure that all the required files are included
updated the setup_ubuntu.sh to include the sudo command (courtesy of Krishna Torque on bitbucket)

16.11.2019

fixed issue #341 that affected both preprocessors that have inlined feedrate: marlin and repetier. The used feedrate was the Feedrate X-Y and instead had to be Feedrate Z.

15.11.2019

added all the recognized extensions to the save dialog filters; latest extension used will be preselected next time a save operation occur
fixed issue #335. The FCDoubleSPinBox (and FCSpinBox) value was not used when the user entered data but just hovered away the mouse expecting the data to be already confirmed
converted setup_ubuntu.sh to Linux line endings

14.11.2019

made sure that the 'default' preprocessor file is always loaded first such that this name is always first in the GUI comboboxes
added a class in GUIElements for a TextEdit box with line numbers and highlight

13.11.2019

trying to improve the performance of View CNC Code command by using QPlainTextEdit; made the mods for it
when using the Find function in the AppTextEditor and the result reach the bottom of the document, the next find will be the first in the document (before it defaulted to the beginning of the document)
finished improving the show of text files in FlatCAM (CNC Code, Source files)
fixed an issue in the FlatCAMObj.GerberObject.convert_units() which needed to be updated after changes elsewhere

12.11.2019

added two new preprocessor files for ISEL CNC and for BERTA CNC
clicking on a FCTable GUI element empty space will also clear the focus now

11.11.2019

in Tools Database added a contextual menu to add/copy/delete tool; Ctrl+C, DEL keys work too; key T for adding a tool is now only partially working
in Tools Database made the status bar messages show when adding/copying/deleting tools in DB
changed all Except statements that were single to except Exception as recommended in some PEP
renamed the Copper Fill Tool to Copper Thieving Tool as this is a more appropriate name; started to add ability for more types of copper thieving besides solid
fixed some issues recently introduced in ParseSVG
updated POT file
fixed GUI in 2Sided Tool
extending the Copper Thieving Tool - wip

9.11.2019

fixed a new bug that did not allow to open the FlatCAM Preferences files by doubleclick in Windows
added a new feature: Tools Database for Geometry objects; resolved issue #308
added tooltips for the Tools Database table headers and buttons

8.11.2019

updated the make file for frozen executable

7.11.2019

added the '.ngc' file extension to the GCode Save file dialog filter
made the 'M2' Gcode command footer optional, default is False (can be set using the TclCommand: set_sys cncjob_footer True)
added a setting in Preferences to force the GCode output to have the Windows line-endings even for non-Windows OS's

6.11.2019

the "CRTL+S" key combo when the Preferences Tab is in focus will save the Preferences instead of saving the Project
fixed bug in the Paint Tool that did not allow choosing a Paint Method that was not Standard
made sure that in the GeometryObject.merge() all the source data is deepcopy-ed in the final object
the font color of the Preferences tab will change to red if settings are not saved and it will revert to default when saved
fixed issue #333. The Geometry Editor Paint tool was not working and using it resulted in an error

5.11.2019

added a new setting named 'Allow Machinist Unsafe Settings' that will allow the Travel Z and Cut Z to take both positive and negative values
fixed some issues when editing a multigeo geometry

4.11.2019

wip
getting rid of all the Options GUI and related functions as it is no longer supported
updated the UI in Geometry UI
optimized the order of the defaults storage declaration and the update of the Preferences GUI from the defaults
started to add a Tool Database

3.11.2019

fixed the V-shape tool diameter calculation in NCC Tool
in NCC Tool made the new tool dia (circular type) a parameter in Preferences
fixed a small issue with clicking in a disabled FCDoubleSpinner or FCSpinner still doing a selection

30.10.2019

converted SolderPaste Tool to usage of SpinBoxes; changed the SolderPaste Tool UI in Preferences too
fixed a bug in SolderPaste Tool that did not allow to view the GCode

29.10.2019

a bug fix in Geometry Object
fixed some missing properties in Tool Calculators

28.10.2019

in Tools: Paint, NCC and Copper Fill, when using the Area Selection, now the selected areas will stay drawn as markers until the user click RMB
in legacy2D graphic engine, adding an utility geometry no longer draw the older ones, overwriting them
fixed some issues in the Gerber Editor (Aperture add was double adding an aperture)
converted Gerber Editor to usage of SpinBoxes
working on the Calibrate Excellon Tool
converted Excellon Editor to usage of SpinBoxes
Calibrate Excellon Tool: working on self.calculate_factors() method

27.10.2019

Copper Fill Tool: some PEP8 corrections

26.10.2019

fixed an error in the FCDoubleSpinner class when FlatCAM is run on system with locale that use the comma as decimal separator

25.10.2019

QRCode Tool: added ability to add negative QRCodes (perhaps they can be isolated on copper?); added a clear area surrounding the QRCode in case it is dropped on a copper pour (region); fixed the Gerber export
QRCode Tool: all parameters are hard-coded for now
small update
fixed imports in all TclCommands
fixed the requirements.txt and setup_ubuntu.sh files
QRCode Tool: change the plot method parameter
QRCode Tool: added ability to save the generated QRCode as SVG file or PNG file
QRCode Tool: added the feature to save the PNG file with transparent background
QRCode Tool: added GUI category in Preferences window
QRCode Tool: shortcut key for this tool is now Alt+Q while PDF import Tool was relegated to Ctrl+Q combo key shortcut
added a new FlatCAM Tool: Copper Fill Tool. It will pour copper into a Gerber filling all empty space with copper, at a clearance distance of the Gerber features
Copper Fill Tool: added possibility to select between a bounding box rectangular or convex hull when the reference is the geometry of the source Gerber object
Copper Fill Tool: cleanup on not regular tool exit
Copper Fill Tool: added GUI category in Edit -> Preferences window
QRCode Tool: added a selection limit parameter to control the selection shape vs utility geo

24.10.2019

added some placeholder texts in the TextBoxes.
working on QRCode Tool; added the utility geometry and initial functional layout
working on QRCode Tool; finished adding the QRCode geometry to the selected Gerber object and also finished adding the 'follow' geometry needed when exporting the Gerber object as a Gerber file in addition to the 'solid' geometry in the obj.apertures
working on QRCode Tool; finished offsetting the geometry both in apertures and in solid_geometry; updated the source_file of the source object

23.10.2019

QRCode Tool - a SVG object is generated and plotted on screen having the QRCode data
fixed an import error in Distance Tool
fixed the Toggle Grid Lines functionality

22.10.2019

working on the Calibrate Excellon Tool
finished the GUI layout for the Calibrate Excellon Tool
start working on QRCode Tool - not working yet
start working on QRCode Tool - searching for alternatives

21.10.2019

the context menu for the Tabs in notebook and PlotTabArea is launched now on right mouse click on tabs themselves
fixed an error when trying to view the source file and there is no object selected
updated the Objects menu signals so whenever an object is (de)selected in the Project Tab, it's state will reflect the (un)checked state of the actions in the Object menu
fixed issue in Gerber Object UI of not updating the value of CutZ entry on TipDia or TipAngle entries change. Fixed issue #324

18.10.2019

fixed a small bug in BETA status change
updated the About FlatCAM window
reverted change in tool dia being able to take only positive values in Gerber Object UI
started to work to a new tool: Calibrate Excellon Tool
solved the issue #329

18.10.2019

finished the update on the Google translated Spanish translation.
updated the new objects icons for Gerber, Geometry and Excellon
small import problem fixed
RELEASE 8.98

17.10.2019

fixed a bug in milling holes due of a message wrongly formatted
added an translator email address
finished the update on German Google translation. Part of it was corrected by Jens Karstedt
finished the update of the Romanian translation.
finished the Objects menu by adding the ability of actions to be checked so they will show the selected status of the objects and by adding to actions to (de)select all objects
fixed and optimized the click selection on canvas
fixed Gerber parsing for very simple Gerber files that have only one Polygon but many LPC zones
fixed SVG export; fix bug #327
finished the update on French Google translation.

16.10.2019

small update to Romanian translation files

15.10.2019

adjusted the layout in NCC Tool
fixed bug in Panelization Tool for which in case of Excellon objects, the panel kept a reference to the source object which created issues when moving or disabling/enabling the plots
cleaned up the module imports throughout the app (the TclCommands are not yet verified)
removed the styling on the comboboxes cellWidget's in the Tool Tables
replaced some of the icons that did not looked Ok on the dark theme
added a new toolbar button for the Copy object functionality
changed the Panelize tool icon
corrected some strings

14.10.2019

modified the result highlight color in Check Rules Tool
added the Check Rules Tool parameters to the unit conversion list
converted more of the Preferences entries to FCDoubleSpinner and FCSpinner
converted all ObjectUI entries to FCDoubleSpinner and FCSpinner
updated the translation files (~ 89% translation level)
changed the splash screen as it seems that FlatCAM beta will never be more than beta
changed some of the signals from returnPressed to editingFinished due of now using the SpinBoxes
fixed an issue that caused the impossibility to load a GCode file that contained the % symbol even when was loaded in a regular way from the File menu
re-added the CNC tool diameter entry for the CNCjob object in Selected tab.FCSpinner
since the CNCjob geometry creation is only useful for graphical purposes and have no impact on the GCode creation I have removed the cascaded union on the GCode geometry therefore speeding up the Gcode display by many factors (perhaps hundreds of times faster)
added a secondary link in the bookmark manager
fixed the bookmark manager order of bookmark links; first two links are always protected from deletion or drag-and-drop to other positions
fixed a whole load of PyQT signal problems generated by recent changes to the usage of SpinBoxes; added a signal returnPressed for the FCSpinner and for FCDoubleSpinner
fixed issue in Paint Tool where the first added tool was expected to have a float diameter but it was a string
updated the translation files to the latest state in the app

13.10.2019

fixed a bug in the Merge functions
fixed the Export PNG function when using the 2D legacy graphic engine
added a new capability to toggle the grid lines for both graphic engines: menu link in View and key shortcut combo Alt+G
changed the grid colors for 3D graphic engine when in Dark mode
enhanced the Tool Film adding the Film adjustments and added the GUI in Preferences
set the GUI layout in Preferences for a new category named Tools 2
added the Preferences for Check Rules Tool and for Optimal Tool and also updated the Film Tool to use the default settings in Preferences

12.10.2019

fixed the Gerber Parser convert units unnecessary usage. The only units conversion should be done when creating the new object, after the parsing
more fixes in Rules Check Tool
optimized the Move Tool
added support for key-based panning in 3D graphic engine. Moving the mouse wheel while pressing the CTRL key will pan up-down and while pressing SHIFT key will pan left-right
fixed a bug in NCC Tool and start trying to make the App responsive while the NCC tool is run in a non-threaded way
fixed a GUI bug with the QMenuBar recently introduced

11.10.2019

added a Bookmark Manager and a Bookmark menu in the Help Menu
added an initial support for rows drag and drop in FCTable in GUIElements; it crashes for CellWidgets for now, if CellWidgetsare in the table rows
fixed some issues in the Bookmark Manager
modified the Bookmark manager to be installed as a widget tab in Plot Area; fixed the drag & drop function for the table rows that have CellWidgets inside
marked in gray color the rows in the Bookmark Manager table that will populate the BookMark menu
made sure that only one instance of the BookmarkManager class is active at one time

10.10.2019

fixed Tool Move to work only for objects that are selected but also plotted, therefore disabled objects will not be moved even if selected

9.10.2019

updated the Rules Check Tool - solved some issues
made FCDoubleSpinner to use either comma or dot as a decimal separator
fixed the FCDoubleSpinner to only allow the amount of decimals already set with set_precision()
fixed ToolPanelize to use FCDoubleSpinner in some places

8.10.2019

modified the FCSpinner and FCDoubleSpinner GUI elements such that the wheel event will not change the values inside unless there is a focus in the lineedit of the SpinBox
in Preferences General, Gerber, Geometry, Excellon, CNCJob sections made all the input fields of type SpinBox (where possible)
updated the Distance Tool utility geometry color to adapt to the dark theme canvas
Toggle Code Editor now works as expected even when the user is closing the Editor tab and not using the command Toggle Code Editor
more changes in Preferences GUI, replacing the FCEntries with Spinners
some small fixes in toggle units conversion
small GUI changes

7.10.2019

fixed an conflict in a signal usage that was triggered by Tool SolderPaste when a new project was created
updated Optimal Tool to display both points coordinates that made a distance (and the minimum) not only the middle point (which is still the place where the jump happen)
added a dark theme to FlatCAM (only for canvas). The selection is done in Edit -> Preferences -> General -> GUI Settings
updated the .POT file and worked a bit in the romanian translation
small changes: reduced the thickness of the axis in 3D mode from 3 pixels to 1 pixel
made sure that is the text in the source file of a DocumentObject is HTML is loaded as such
added inverted icons

6.10.2019

remade the Mark area Tool in Gerber Editor to be able to clear the markings and also to delete the marked polygons (Gerber apertures)
working in adding to the Optimal Tool the rest of the distances found in the Gerber and the locations associated; added GUI
added display of the results for the Rules Check Tool in a formatted way
made the Rules Check Tool document window Read Only
made Excellon and Gerber classes from camlib into their own files in the flatcamParser folder
moved the ApertureMacro class from camlib to ParseGerber file
moved back the ApertureMacro class to camlib for now and made some import changes in the new ParseGerber and ParseExcellon classes
some changes to the tests - perhaps I will try adding a few tests in the future
changed the Jump To icon and reverted some changes to the parseGerber and ParseExcellon classes
updated Tool Optimal with display of all distances (and locations of the middle point between where they happen) found in the Gerber Object

5.10.2019

remade the Tool Calculators to use the QSpinBox in order to simplify the user interaction and remove possible errors
remade: Tool Cutout, Tool 2Sided, Tool Image, Panelize Tool, NCC Tool, Paint Tool to use the QSpinBox GUI elements
optimized the Transformation Tool both in GUI and in functionality and replaced the entries with QSpinBox
fixed an issue with the tool table context menu in Paint Tool
made some changes in the GUI in Paint Tool, NCC Tool and SolderPaste Tool
changed some of the icons; added attributions for icons source in the About FlatCAM window
added a new tool in the Geometry Editor named Explode which is the opposite of Union Tool: it will explode the polygons into lines

4.10.2019

updated the Film Tool and added the ability to generate Punched Positive films (holes in the pads) when a Gerber file is the film's source. The punch holes source can be either an Excellon file or the pads center
optimized Rules Check Tool so it runs faster when doing Copper 2 Copper rule
small GUI changes in Optimal Tool and in Film Tool
some PEP8 corrections
some code annotations to make it easier to navigate in the MainGUI.py
fixed exit FullScreen with Escape key
added a new menu category in the MenuBar named 'Objects'. It will hold the objects found in the Project tab. Useful when working in FullScreen
disabled a log.debug in ObjectColection.get_by_name()
added a Toggle Notebook button named 'NB' in the QMenBar which toggle the notebook
in Gerber isolation section, the tool dia value is updated when changing from Circular to V-shape and reverse
in Tool Film, when punching holes in a positive film, if the resulting object geometry is the same as the source object geometry, the film will not ge generated
fixed a bug that when a Gerber object is edited and it has as solid_geometry a single Polygon, saving the result was failing due of len() function not working on a single Polygon
added the Distance Tool, Distance Min Tool, Jump To and Set Origin functions to the Edit Toolbar

3.10.2019

previously I've added the initial layout for the DocumentObject object
added more editing features in the Selected Tab for the DocumentObject object

2.10.2019

fixed bug in Geometry Editor that did not allow the copy of geometric elements
created a new class that holds all the Code Editor functionality and integrated as a Editor in FlatCAM, the location is in flatcamEditors folder
remade all the functions for view_source, scripts and view_code to use the new AppTextEditor class; now all the Code Editor tabs are being kept alive, before only one could be in an open state
changed the name of the new object FlatCAMNotes to a more general one DocumentObject
changed the way a new ScriptObject object is made, the method that is processing the Tcl commands when the Run button is clicked is moved to the FlatCAMObj.ScriptObject() class
reused the Multiprocessing Pool declared in the App for the ToolRulesCheck() class
adapted the Project context menu for the new types of FLatCAM objects
modified the setup_recent_files to accommodate the new FlatCAM objects
made sure that when an ScriptObject object is deleted, it's associated Tab is closed
fixed the FlatCMAScript object saving when project is saved (loading a project with this script object is not working yet)
fixed the FlatCMAScript object when loading it from a project

1.10.2019

fixed the FCSpinner and FCDoubleSpinner GUI elements to select all on first click and deselect on second click in the Spinbox LineEdit
for Gerber object in Selected Tab added ability to chose a V-Shape tool and therefore control the isolation better by adjusting the cut width of the isolation in function of the cut depth, tip width of the tool and the tip angle of the tool
when in Gerber UI is selected the V-Shape tool, all those parameters (tip dia, tip angle, tool_type = 'V' and cut Z) are transferred to the generated Geometry and prefilled in the Geoemtry UI
added a fix in the Gerber parser to work even when there is no information about zero suppression in the Gerber file
added new settings in Edit -> Preferences -> Gerber for Gerber Units and Gerber Zeros to be used as defaults in case that those informations are missing from the Gerber file
added new settings for the Gerber newly introduced feature to isolate with the V-Shape tools (tip dia, tip angle, tool_type and cut Z) in Edit -> Preferences -> Gerber Advanced
made those settings just added for Gerber, to be updated on object creation
added the Geo Tolerance parameter to those that are converted from MM to INCH
added two new FlatCAM objects: ScriptObject and FlatCAMNotes

30.09.2019

modified the Distance Tool such that the number of decimals all over the tool is set in one place by the self.decimals
added a new tool named Minimum Distance Tool who will calculate the minimum distance between two objects; key shortcut: SHIFT + M
finished the Minimum Distance Tool in case of using it at the object level (not in Editors)
completed the Minimum Distance Tool by adding the usage in Editors
made the Minimum Distance Tool more precise for the Excellon Editor since in the Excellon Editor the holes shape are represented as a cross line but in reality they should be evaluated as circles
small change in the UI layout for Check Rules Tool by adding a new rule (Check trace size)
changed a tooltip in Optimal Tool
in Optimal Tool added display of how frequent that minimum distance is found
in Tool Distance and Tool Minimal Distance made the entry fields read-only
in Optimal Tool added the display of the locations where the minimum distance was detected
added support to use Multi Processing (multi core usage, not simple threading) in Rules Check Tool
in Rules Check Tool added the functionality for the following rules: Hole Size, Trace Size, Hole to Hole Clearance
in Rules Check Tool added the functionality for Copper to Copper Clearance
in Rules Check Tool added the functionality for Copper to Outline Clearance, Silk to Silk Clearance, Silk to Solder Mask Clearance, Silk to Outline Clearance, Minimum Solder Mask Sliver, Minimum Annular Ring
fixes to cover all possible situations for the Minimum Annular Ring Rule in Rules Check Tool
some fixes in Rules Check Tool and added a QSignal that is fired at the end of the job

29.09.2019

work done for the GUI layout of the Rule Check Tool
setup signals in the Rules Check Tool GUI
changed the name of the Measurement Tool to Distance Tool. Moved it's location to the Edit Menu
added Angle parameter which is continuously updated to the Distance Tool

28.09.2019

changed the icon for Open Script and reused it for the Check Rules Tool
added a new tool named "Optimal Tool" which will determine the minimum distance between the copper features for a Gerber object, in fact determining the maximum diameter for a isolation tool that can be used for a complete isolation
fixed the ToolMeasurement geometry not being displayed
fixed a bug in Excellon Editor that crashed the app when editing the first tool added automatically into a new black Excellon file
made sure that if the big mouse cursor is selected, the utility geometry in Excellon Editor has a thicker line width (2 pixels now) so it is visible over the geometry of the mouse cursor
fixed issue #319 where generating a CNCJob from a geometry made with NCC Tool made the app crash; also #328 which is the same
replaced in FlatCAM Tools and in FLatCAMObj.py and in Editors all references to hardcoded decimals in string formats for tools with a variable declared in the init()
fixed a small bug that made app crash when the splash screen is disabled: it was trying to close it without being open

27.09.2019

optimized the toggle axis command
added possibility of using a big mouse cursor or a small mouse cursor. The big mouse cursor is made from 2 infinite lines. This was implemented for both graphic engines
added ability to change the cursor size when the small mouse cursor is selected in Preferences -> General
removed the line that remove the spaces from the path parameter in the Tcl commands that open something (Gerber, Gcode, Excellon)
fixed issue with the old SysTray icon not hidden when the application is restarted programmatically
if an object is edited but the result is not saved, the app will reload the edited object UI and set the Selected tab as active
made the mouse cursor (big, small) change in real time for both graphic engines
started to work on a new FlatCAM tool: Rules Check
created the GUI for the Rule Check Tool
if there are (x, y) coordinates in the clipboard, when launching the "Jump to" function, those coordinates will be preloaded in the Dialog box.
when the combo SHIFT + LMB is executed there is no longer a deselection of objects
when the "Jump to" function is called, the mouse cursor (if active) will be moved to the new position and the screen position labels will be updated accordingly

27.09.2019

RELEASE FlatCAM 8.97

26.09.2019

added a Copy All button in the Code Editor, clicking this button will copy all text in the editor to the clipboard
added a 'Milling Type' radio button in Geometry Editor Preferences to contorl the type of geometry will be generated in the Geo Editor (for conventional milling or for the climb milling)
added the functionality to allow climb/conventional milling selection for the geometry created in the Geometry Editor
now any Geometry that is edited in Geometry editor will have coordinates ordered such that the resulting Gcode will allow the selected milling type in the 'Milling Type' radio button in Geometry Editor Preferences (which depends also of the spindle direction)
some strings update
French Google-translation at 100%
German Google-translation update to 100%
updated the other languages and the .POT file
changed some strings (that should not have been included for translation) and updated language files and the .POT file
fixed issue when rebooting from within in cx_freezed state (it issued a startup arg with the path to FlatCAM.exe but that triggered the last sys.exit(2) that I had in the App.args_at_startup())
modified the make_win script for the presence of MatPlotLib

25.09.2019

French translation at 33%
fixed the 'Jump To' function to work in legacy graphic engine
in legacy graphic engine fixed the mouse cursor shape when grid snapping is ON, such that it fits with the shape from the OpenGL graphic engine
in legacy graphic engine fixed the axis toggle
French Google-translation at 48%

24.09.2019

fixed the fullscreen method to show the application window in fullscreen wherever the mouse pointer it is therefore on the screen we are working on; before it was showing always on the primary screen
fixed setup_ubuntu.sh to include the matplotlib package required by the Legacy (2D) graphic engine
in legacy graphic engine, fixed issue where immediately after changing the mouse cursor snapping the mouse cursor shape was not updated
in legacy graphic engine, fixed issue where while zooming the mouse cursor shape was not updated
in legacy graphic engine, fixed issue where immediately after panning finished the mouse cursor shape was not updated
unfortunately the fix for issue where while zooming the mouse cursor shape was not updated braked something in way that Matplotlib work with PyQt5, therefore I removed it
fixed a bug in legacy graphic engine: when doing the self.app.collection.delete_all() in new_project an app crash occurred
implemented the Annotation change in CNCJob Selected Tab for the legacy graphic engine

23.09.2019

in legacy graphic engine, fixed bug that made the old object disappear when a new object was loaded
in legacy graphic engine, fixed bug that crashed the app when creating a new project
in legacy graphic engine, fixed a bug that when deleting an object all objects where deleted
added a new TclCommand named "set_origin" which will set the origin for all loaded objects to zero if the -auto True argument is used and to a certain x,y location if the format is: set_origin 5,7
added a new TclCommand named "bounds" which will return a list of bounds values from a supplied list of objects names. For use in Tcl Scripts
updated strings in the translations and the .POT file
added the new keywords to the default keywords list
fixed the FullScreen option not working for the 3D graphic engine (due bug of Qt5 when OpenGL window is fullscreen) by creating a sort of fullscreen
added a final fix that allow full coverage of the screen in FullScreen in Windows and still the menus are working
optimized the Gerber mark shapes display
fixed a color format bug in Tool Move for 3D engine
made sure that when the Tool Move is used on a Gerber file with mark shapes active, those mark shapes are deleted before the actual move
in legacy graphic engine, fixed issue with Delete shortcut key trying to delete twice
26% in Google-translated French translation and updated some strings too

22.09.2019

fixed zoom directions legacy graphic engine (previous commit)
fixed display of MultiGeo geometries in legacy graphic engine
fixed Paint tool to work in legacy graphic engine
fixed CutOut Tool to work in legacy graphic engine
fixed display of distance labels and code optimizations in ToolPaint and NCC Tool
adjusted axis at startup for legacy graphic engine plotcanvas
when the graphic engine is changed in Edit -> Preferences -> General -> App Preferences, the application will restart
made hover shapes work in legacy graphic engine
fixed bug in display of the apertures marked in the Aperture table found in the Gerber Selected tab and through this made it to also work with the legacy graphic engine
fixed annotation in Mark Area Tool in Gerber Editor to work in legacy graphic engine
fixed the MultiColor plot option Gerber selected tab to work in legacy graphic engine
documented some methods in the ShapeCollectionLegacy class
updated the files: setup_ubuntu.sh and requirements.txt
some strings changed to be easier for translation
updated the .POT file and the translation files
updated and corrected the Romanian and Spanish translations
updated the .PO files for the rest of the translations, they need to be filled in.
fixed crash when trying to set a workspace in FlatCAM in the Legacy engine 2D mode by disabling this function for the case of 2D mode
fixed exception when trying to Fit View (shortcut key 'V') with no object loaded, in legacy graphic engine

21.09.2019

fixed Measuring Tool in legacy graphic engine
fixed Gerber plotting in legacy graphic engine
fixed Geometry plotting in legacy graphic engine
fixed CNCJob and Excellon plotting in legacy graphic engine
in legacy graphic engine fixed the travel vs cut lines in CNCJob objects
final fix for key shortcuts with modifier in legacy graphic engine
refactored some of the code in the legacy graphic engine
fixed drawing of selection box when dragging mouse on screen and the selection shape drawing on the selected objects
fixed the moving drawing shape in Tool Move in legacy graphic engine
fixed moving geometry in Tool Measurement in legacy graphic engine
fixed Geometry Editor to work in legacy graphic engine
fixed Excellon Editor to work in legacy graphic engine
fixed Gerber Editor to work in legacy graphic engine
fixed NCC tool to work in legacy graphic engine

20.09.2019

final fix for the --shellvar having spaces within the assigned value; now they are retained
legacy graphic engine - made the mouse events work (click, release, doubleclick, dragging)
legacy graphic engine - made the key events work (simple or with modifiers)
legacy graphic engine - made the mouse cursor work (enabled/disabled, position report); snapping is not moving the cursor yet
made the mouse cursor snap to the grid when grid snapping is active
changed the axis color to the one used in the OpenGL graphic engine
work on ShapeCollectionLegacy
fixed mouse cursor to work for all objects
fixed event signals to work in both graphic engines: 2D and 3D

19.09.2019

made sure that if FlatCAM is registered with a file extension that it does not recognize it will exit
added some fixes in the the file extension detection
added some status messages for the Tcl script related methods
made sure that optionally, when a script is run then it is also loaded into the code editor
added control over the display of Sys Tray Icon in Edit -> Preferences -> General -> GUI Settings -> Sys Tray Icon checkbox
updated some of the default values to more reasonable ones
FlatCAM can be run in HEADLESS mode now. This mode can be selected by using the --headless=1 command line argument or by changing the line headless=False to True in config/configuration.txt file. In this mod the Sys Tray Icon menu will hold only the Run Scrip menu entry and Exit entry.
added a new TclCommand named quit_flatcam which will ... quit FlatCAM from Tcl Shell or from a script
fixed the command line argument --shellvar to work when there are spaces in the argument value
fixed bug in Gerber editor that did not allow to display all shapes after it encountered one shape without 'solid' geometry
fixed bug in Gerber Editor -> selection area handler where if some of the selected shapes did not had the 'solid' geometry will silently abort selection of further shapes
added new control in Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Gui Preferences -> Activity Icon. Will select a GIF from a selection, the one used to show that FlatCAM is working.
changed the script icon to a smaller one in the sys tray menu
fixed bug with losing the visibility of toolbars if at first startup the user tries to change something in the Preferences before doing a first save of Preferences
changed a bit the splash PNG file
moved all the GUI Preferences classes into it's own file flatcamGUI.PreferencesUI.py
changed the default method for Paint Tool to 'all'

18.09.2019

added more functionality to the Extension registration with FLatCAM and added to the GUI in Edit -> Preferences -> Utilities
fixed the parsing of the Manufacturing files when double clicking them and they are registered with FlatCAM
fixed showing the GUI when some settings (maximized_GUI) are missing from QSettings
added sys tray menu
added possibility to edit the custom keywords used by the autocompleter (in Tcl Shell and in the Code Editor). It is done in the Edit -> Preferences -> Utilities
added a new setting in Edit -> Preferences -> General -> GUI Settings -> Textbox Font which control the font on the Textbox GUI elements
fixed issue with the sys tray icon not hiding after application close
added option to run a script from the context menu of the sys tray icon. Changed the color of the sys tray icon to a green one so it will be visible on light and dark themes

17.09.2019

added more programmers that contributed to FlatCAM over the years, in the "About FlatCAM" -> Programmers window
fixed issue #315 where a script run with the --shellfile argument crashed the program if it contained a TclCommand New
added messages in the Splash Screen when running FlatCAM with arguments at startup
fixed issue #313 where TclCommand drillcncjob is spitting errors in Tcl Shell which should be ignored
fixed an bug where the pywrapcp name from Google OR-Tools is not defined; fix issue #316
if FlatCAM is started with the 'quit' or 'exit' as argument it will close immediately and it will close also another instance of FlatCAM that may be running
added a new command line parameter for FlatCAM named '--shellvars' which can load a text file with variables for Tcl Shell in the format: one variable assignment per line and looking like: 'a=3' without quotes
made --shellvars into --shellvar and make it only one list of commands passed to the Tcl. The list is separated by comma but without spaces. The variables are accessed in Tcl with the names shellvar_x where x is the index in the list of command comma separated values
fixed an issue in the TclShell that generated an exception IndexError which crashed the software
fixed the --shellvar and --shellfile FlatCAM arguments to work together but the --shellvar has precedence over --shellfile as it is most likely that whatever variable set by --shellvar will be used in the script file run by --shellfile

16.09.2019

modified the TclCommand New so it will no longer close all tabs when called (it closed the Code Editor tab which may have been holding the code that run)
fixed the App.on_view_source() method for CNCJob objects: the Gcode will now contain the Prepend and Append code from the Edit -> Preferences -> CNCJob -> CNCJob Options
added a new parameter named 'muted' for the TclCommands: cncjob, drillcncjob and write_gcode. Setting it as -muted 1 will disable the error reporting in TCL Shell
some GUI optimizations
more GUI optimizations related to being part of the Advanced category or not
added possibility to change the positive SVG exported file color in Tool Film
fixed some issues recently introduced in the TclCommands CNCJob, DrillCNCJob and write_gcode; changed some parameters names
fixed issue in the Laser preprocessor where the laser was turned on as soon as the GCode started creating an unwanted cut up until the job start
added new links in Menu -> Help (Excellon, Gerber specifications and a Report Bug)
made the splashscreen to be showed on the current monitor on systems with multiple monitors
added a new entry in Menu -> View -> Redraw All which is doing what the name says: redraw all loaded objects
fixed issue where in TCl Shell the Windows paths were not understood due of backslash symbol understood as escape symbol instead of path separator
made sure that in for the TclCommand cncjob and for the drillcncjob if one of the args is stated but no value then the value used will be the default one
made available the TSA algorithm for drill path optimization when the used OS is 64bit. When used OS is 32bit the only available algorithm is TSA

15.09.2019

refactored GeometryObject.mtool_gen_cncjob() method
fixed the TclCommandCncjob to work for multigeometry Geometry objects; still I had to fix the list of tools parameter, right now I am setting it to an empty list
update the Tcl Command isolate to be able to isolate exteriors, interiors besides the full isolation, using the iso_type parameter
fixed issue in ToolPaint that could not allow area painting of a geometry that was a list and not a Geometric element (polygon or MultiPolygon)
fixed UI showing before the initialization of FlatCAM is finished when the last state of GUI was maximized
finished updating the TclCommand cncjob to work for multi-geo Geometry objects with the parameters from the args
fixed the TclCommand cncjob to use the -outname parameter
added some more keywords in the data_model for auto-completer
fixed isolate TclCommand to use correctly the -outname parameter
added possibility to see the GCode when right clicking on the Project tab on a CNCJob object and then clicking View Source
added a new TclCommand named PlotObjects which will plot a list of FlatCAM objects
made that after opening an object in FlatCAM it is not automatically plotted. If the user wants to plot it can use the TclCommands PlotAll or PlotObjects
modified the TclCommands so that open files do not plot the opened files automatically
made all TclCommands not to be plotted automatically
made sure that all TclCommands are not threaded
added new TclCommands: NewExcellon, NewGerber
fixed the TclCommand open_project
added the outname parameter (and established an default name when outname not used) for the AlignDrillGrid and AlignDrill TclCommands
fixed Scripts repeating multiple time when the Code Editor is used. This repetition was correlated with multiple openings of the Code Editor window (especially after an error)
added the autocomplete keywords that can be changed to the defaults dictionary

14.09.2019

more string changes
updated translation files
fixed a small bug
minor changes in the Code Editor GUI
minor changes in the 'FlatCAM About' GUI
added a new shortcut key F5 for doing the 'Plot All'
updated the google-translated Spanish translation strings
fixed the layouts to include toolbars breaks where it was needed
whenever the user changes the Excellon format values for loading files, the Export Excellon Format values will be updated
made optional the behavior of Excellon Export values following the values in the Excellon Loading section
updated the translations (except RU) and the POT file
added to the NonCopperClear.ncc_handler() a parameter to be able to run it non-threaded

13.09.2019

added control for simplification when loading a Gerber file in Preferences -> Gerber -> Gerber General -> Simplify
added some messages for the Edit -> Conversions -> Join methods() to make sure that there are at least 2 objects selected for join
added a grid layout in on_about()
upgraded the Script Editor to be able to run Tcl commands in batches
added some ToolTips for the buttons in the Code Editor
converted the big strings that hold the shortcut keys descriptions to smaller string to make translations easier
fixed some of the strings that were left in the old way
updated the POT file
updated Romanian language partially
added a new way to handle scripts with repeating Tcl commands
added new buttons in the Tools toolbar for running, opening and adding new scripts
finished the Romanian translation update and updated the POT file

12.09.2019

small changes in the TclCommands: MillDrills, MillSlots, DrillCNCJob: the new parameter for tolerance is now named: diatol
cleaned up the 'About FlatCAM' window, started to give credits for the translation team
started to add an application splash screen
now, Excellon and Gerber edited objects will have the source_code updated and ready to be saved
the edited Gerber (or Excellon) object now is kept in the app after editing and the edited object is a new object
added a message to the splash screen
remade the splash screen to show multiple messages on app initialization
added a new splash image
added a control in Preferences -> General -> GUI Settings -> Splash Screen that control if the splash screen is shown at startup

11.09.2019

added the Gerber code as source for the panelized object in Panelize Tool
whenever a Gerber file is deleted, the mark_shapes objects are deleted also
made faster the Gerber parser for the case of having a not valid geometry when loading a Gerber file without buffering
updated code in self.on_view_source() to make it more responsive
fixed the TclCommand MillHoles
changed the name of TclCommand MillHoles to MillDrills and added a new TclCommand named MillSlots
modified the MillDrills and MillSlots TclCommands to accept as parameter a list of tool diameters to be milled instead of tool indexes
fixed issue #302 where a copied object lost all the tools
modified the TclCommand DrillCncJob to have as parameter a list of tool diameters to be drilled instead of tool indexes
updated the Spanish translation (Google-translation)
added a new parameter in the TclCommands: DrillCNCJob, MillDrills, MillSlots named tol (from tolerance). If the diameters of the milled (drilled) dias are within the tolerance specified of the diameters in the Excellon object than those diameters will be processed. This is to help account for rounding errors when having units conversion

10.09.2019

made isolation threaded
fixed a small typo in TclCommandCopperCLear
made changing the Plot kind in CNCJob selected tab, threaded
fixed an object used before declaring it in NCC Tool - Area option
added progress for the generation of Isolation geometry
added progress and possibility of graceful exit in Panel Tool
added graceful exit possibility when creating Isolation
changed the workers thread priority back to Normal
when disabling plots, if the selection shape is visible, it will be deleted
small changes in Tool Panel (eliminating some deepcopy() calls)
made sure that all the progress counters count to 100%

9.09.2019

changed the triangulation type in VisPyVisuals for ShapeCollectionVisual class
added a setting in Preferences -> Gerber -> Gerber General named Buffering. If set to 'no' the Gerber objects load a lot more faster (perhaps 10 times faster than when set to 'full') but the visual look is not so great as all the aperture polygons can be seen
added for NCC Tool and Paint Tool a setting in the Preferences -> Tools --> (NCC Tool/ Paint Tool) that can set a progressive plotting (plot shapes as they are processed)
some fixes in Paint Tool when done over the Gerber objects in case that the progressive plotting is selected
some fixes in Gerber isolation in case that the progressive plotting is selected; added a 'Buffer solid geometry' button shown only when progressive plotting for Gerber object is selected. It will buffer the entire geometry of the object and plot it, in a threaded way.
modified FlatCAMObj.py file to the new string format that will allow easier translations
modified camlib.py, FlatCAMAPp.py and ObjectCollection.py files to the new string format that will allow easier translations
updated the POT file and the German language
fixed issue when loading unbuffered a Gerber file that has negative regions
fixed Panelize Tool to save the aperture geometries into the panel apertures. Also made the tool faster by removing the buffering at the end of the job
modified FlatCAMEditor's files to the new string format that will allow easier translations
updated POT file and the Romanian translation

8.09.2019

added some documentation strings for methods in FlatCAMApp.App class
removed some @pyqtSlot() decorators as they interfere with the current way the program works

7.09.2019

added a method to gracefully exit from threaded tasks and implemented it for the NCC Tool and for the Paint Tool
modified the on_about() function to reflect the reality in 2019 - FlatCAM it is an Open Source contributed software
remade the handlers for the Enable/Disable Project Tree context menu so they are threaded and activity is shown in the lower right corner of the main window
added to GUI new options for the Gerber object related to area subtraction
added new feature in the Gerber object isolation allowing for the isolation to avoid an area defined by another object (Gerber or Geometry)
all transformation functions show now the progress (rotate, mirror, scale, offset, skew)
made threaded the Offset and Scale operations found in the Selected tab of the object
corrected some issues and made Move Tool to show correctly when it is plotting and when it is offsetting the objects position
made Set Origin feature, threaded
updated German language translation files
separated the Plotting thread from the transformations threads

6.09.2019

remade visibility threaded
reimplemented the thread listening for new FlatCAM process starting with args so it is no longer subclassed but using the moveToThread function
added percentage display for work done in NCC Tool
added percentage display for work done in Paint Tool
some fixes and prepared the activity monitor area to receive updated texts
added progress display in status bar for generating CNCJob from Excellon objects
added progress display in status bar for generating CNCJob from Geometry objects
modified all the FlatCAM tools strings to the new format in which the status is no longer included in the translated strings to make it easier for the future translations
more customization for the progress display in case of NCC Tool, Paint Tool and for the Gcode generation
updated POT file with the new strings
made the objects offset (therefore the Move Tool) show progress display

5.09.2019

fixed issue with loading files at start-up
fixed issue with generating bounding box geometry for CNCJob objects
added some more infobar messages and log.debug
increased the priority for the worker tasks
hidden the configuration for G91 coordinates due of deciding to leave this development for another time; it require too much refactoring
added some messages for the G-code generation so the user know in which stage the process is

4.09.2019

started to work on support for G91 in Gcode (relative coordinates)
added support for G91 coordinates
working in plotting the CNCjob generated with G91 coordinates

3.09.2019

in NCC tool there is now a depth of cut parameter named 'Cut Z' which will dictate how deep the tool will enter into the PCB material
in NCC tool added possibility to choose between the type of tools to be used and when V-shape is used then the tool diameter is calculated from the desired depth of cut and from the V-tip parameters
small changes in NCC tool regarding the usage of the V-shape tool
fixed the isolation distance in NCC Tool for the tools with iso_op type
in NCC Tool now the Area adding is continuous until RMB is clicked (no key modifier is needed anymore)
fixed German language translation
in NCC Tool added a warning in case there are isolation tools and if those isolation's are interrupted by an area or a box
in Paint Tool made that the area selection is repeated until RMB click
in Paint Tool and NCC Tool fixed the RMB click detection when Area selection is used
finished the work on file extensions registration with FlatCAM. If the file extensions are deleted in the Preferences -> File Associations then those extensions are unregistered with FlatCAM
fixed bug in NCC Tools and in SolderPaste Tool if in Edit -> Preferences only one tool is entered
fixed bug in camblib.clear_polygon3() which caused that some copper clearing / paintings were not complete (some polygons were not processed) when the Straight Lines method was used
some changes in NCC Tools regarding of the clearing itself

2.09.2019

fixed issue in NCC Tool when using area option
added formatting for some strings in the app strings, making the future translations easier
made changes in the Excellon Tools Table to make it more clear that the tools are selected in the # column and not in the Plot column
in Excellon and Gerber Selected tab made the Plot (mark) columns not selectable
some ToolTips were modified
in Properties Tool made threaded the calculation of convex_hull area and also made it to work for multi-geo objects
in NCC tool the type of tool that is used is transferred to the Geometry object
in NCC tool the type of isolation done with the tools selected as isolation tools can now be selected and it has also an Edit -> Preferences entry
in Properties Tool fixed the dimensions calculations (length, width, area) to work for multi-geo objects

1.09.2019

fixed open handlers
fixed issue in NCC Tool where the tool table context menu could be installed multiple times
added new ability to create simple isolation's in the NCC Tool
fixed an issue when multi depth step is larger than the depth of cut

27.08.2019

made FlatCAM so that whenever an associated file is double clicked, if there is an opened instance of FlatCAM, the file will be opened in the first instance without launching a new instance of FlatCAM. If FlatCAM is launched again it will spawn a new process (hopefully it will work when freezed).

26.08.2019

added support for file associations with FlatCAM, for Windows

25.08.2019

initial add of a new Tcl Command named CopperClear
remade the NCC Tool in preparation for the newly added TclCommand CopperClear
finished adding the TclCommandCopperClear that can be called with alias: 'ncc'
added new capability in NCC Tool when the reference object is of Gerber type and fixed some newly introduced errors
fixed issue #298. The changes in preprocessors done in Preferences dis not update the object UI layout as it was supposed to. The selection of Marlin postproc. did not unhidden the Feedrate Rapids entry.
fixed minor issues
fixed Tcl Command AddPolygon, AddPolyline
fixed Tcl Command CncJob
fixed crash due of Properties Tool trying to have a convex hull area on FlatCAMCNCJob objects which is not possible due of their nature
modified Tcl Command SubtractRectangle
fixed and modernized the Tcl Command Scale to be able to scale on X axis or on Y axis or on both and having as scale reference either the (0, 0) point or the minimum point of the bounding box or the center of the bounding box.
fixed and modernized the Tcl Command Skew

24.08.2019

modified CutOut Tool so now the manual gaps adding will continue until the user is clicking the RMB
added ability to turn on/off the grid snapping and to jump to a location while in CutOut Tool manual gap adding action
made PlotCanvas class inherit from VisPy Canvas instead of creating an instance of it (work of JP)
fixed selection by dragging a selection shape in Geometry Editor
modified the Paint Tool. Now the Single Polygon and Area/Reference Object painting works with multiple tools too. The tools have to be selected in the Tool Table.
remade the TclCommand Paint to work in the new configuration of the the app (the painting functions are now in their own tool, Paint Tool)
fixed a bug in the Properties Tool
added a new TcL Command named Nregions who generate non-copper regions
added a new TclCommand named Bbox who generate a bounding box.

23.08.2019

in Tool Cutout for the manual gaps, right mouse button click will exit from the action of adding gaps
in Tool Cutout tool I've added the possibility to create a cutout without bridge gaps; added the 'None' option in the Gaps combobox
in NCC Tool added ability to add multiple zones to clear when Area option is checked and the modifier key is pressed (either CTRL or SHIFT as set in Preferences). Right click of the mouse is an additional way to finish the job.
fixed a bug in Excellon Editor that made that the selection of drills is always cumulative
in Paint Tool added ability to add multiple zones to paint when Area option is checked and the modifier key is pressed (either CTRL or SHIFT as set in Preferences). Right click of the mouse is an additional way to finish the job.
in Paint Tool and NCC Tool, for the Area option, now mouse panning is allowed while adding areas to process
for all the FlatCAM tools launched from toolbar the behavior is modified: first click it will launch the tool; second click: if the Tool tab has focus it will close the tool but if another tab is selected, the tool will have focus
modified the NCC Tool and Paint Tool to work multiple times after first launch
fixed the issue with GUI entries content being deselected on right click in the box in order to copy the value
some changes in GUI tooltips
modified the way key modifiers are detected in Gerber Editor Selection class and in Excellon Editor Selection class
updated the translations
fixed aperture move in Gerber Editor
fixed drills/slots move in Excellon Editor
RELEASE 8.96

22.08.2019

added ability to turn ON/OFF the detachable capability of the tabs in Notebook through a context menu activated by right mouse button click on the Notebook header
added ability to turn ON/OFF the detachable capability of the tabs in Plot Tab Area through a context menu activated by right mouse button click on the Notebook header
added possibility to turn application portable from the Edit -> Preferences -> General -> App. Preferences -> Portable checkbox
moved the canvas setup into it's own function and called it in the init() function
fixed the Buffer Tool in Geometry Editor; made the Buffer entry field a QDoubleSpinner and set the lower limit to zero.
fixed Tool Cutout so when the target Gerber is a single Polygon then the created manual geometry will follow the shape if shape is freeform
fixed TclCommandFollow command; an older function name was used who yielded wrong results
in Tool Cutout for the manual gaps, now the moving geometry that cuts gaps will orient itself to fit the angle of the cutout geometry

21.08.2019

added feature in Paint Tool allowing the painting to be done on Gerber objects
added feature in Paint Tool to set how (and if) the tools are sorted
added Edit -> Preferences GUI entries for the above just added features
added new entry in Properties Tool which is the calculated Convex Hull Area (should give a more precise area for the irregular shapes than the box area)
added some more strings in Properties Tool for the translation
in NCC Tool added area selection feature
fixed bug in Excellon parser for the Excellon files that do not put the type of zero suppression they use in the file (like DipTrace eCAD)
fixed some issues introduced in NCC Tool

20.08.2019

added ability to do copper clearing through NCC Tool on Geometry objects
replaced the layout from Grid to Form for the Reference objects comboboxes in Paint Tool and in NCC Tool

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
some mods in the Tool Sub
fixed bug in Tool Sub that created issues when toggling visibility of the plots
fixed the Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Romanian translations

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:
stored inside FlatCAM app the VisPy data files and at the first start the application will try to copy those files to the APPDATA (roaming) folder in case of running under Windows OS
created a configuration file in the root/config/configuration.txt with a configuration line for portability. Set portable to True to run the app as portable
working on the Slots Array in Excellon Editor - building the GUI
added a failsafe path to the source folder from which to copy the VisPy data
fixed the GUI for Slot Arrays in Excellon Editor
finished the Slot Array tool in Excellon Editor
added the key shortcut handlers for Add Slot and Add Slot Array tools in Excellon Editor
started to work on the Resize tool for the case of Excellon slots in Excellon Editor
final fix for the VisPy data files; the defaults files are saved to the Config folder when the app is set to be portable
added the Slot Type parameter for exporting Excellon in Edit -> Preferences -> Excellon -> Export Excellon. Now the Excellon object can be exported also with drilled slot command G85
fixed bug in Excellon export when there are no zero suppression (coordinates with decimals)

14.08.2019

fixed the loading of Excellon with slots and the saving of edited Excellon object in regard of slots, in Excellon Editor
fixed the Delete tool, Select tool in Excellon Editor to work for Slots too
changes in the way the edited Excellon with added slots is saved
added more icons and cursor in Excellon Editor for Slots related functions
in Excellon Editor fixed the selection issue which in a certain step created a failure in the Copy and Move tools.
in Excellon Editor fixed the selection with key modifier pressed
edited the mouse cursors and saved them without included thumbnail in a bid to remove some CRC warnings made by libpng

13.08.2019

added new option in ToolSub: the ability to close (or not) the resulting paths when using tool on Geometry objects. Added also a new category in the Edit -> Preferences -> Tools, the Substractor Tool Options
some PEP8 changes in FlatCAMApp.py
added new settings in Edit -> Preferences -> General for Notebook Font size (set font size for the items in Project Tree and for text in Selected Tab) and for canvas Axis font size. The values are stored in QSettings.
updated translations
fixed a bug in FCDoubleSpinner GUI element
added a new parameter in NCC tool named offset. If the offset is used then the copper clearing will finish to a set distance of the copper features
fixed bugs in Geometry Editor
added protection's against the 'bowtie' geometries for Subtract Tool in Geometry Editor
added all the tools from Geometry Editor to the the contextual menu
fixed bug in Add Text Tool in Geometry Editor that gave error when clicking to place text without having text in the box
added all the tools from Gerber Editor to the the contextual menu
added the menu entry "Edit" in the Project contextual menu for Gerber objects
started to work in adding slots and slots array in Excellon Editor
in SlotAdd finished the utility geometry and the GUI for it

12.08.2019

done regression to solve the bug with multiple passes cutting from the copper features (I should remember not to make mods here)
if 'combine' is checked in Gerber isolation but there is only one pass, the resulting geometry will still be single geo
the 'passes' entry was changed to a IntSpinner so it will allow passes to be entered only in range (1, 999) - it will not allow entry of 0 which may create some issues
improved the GerberObject.isolate() function to work for geometry in the form of list and also in case that the elements of the list are LinearRings (like when doing the Exterior Isolation)
in NCC Tool made sure that at each run the old objects are deleted
fixed bug in camlib.Gerber.parse_lines() Gerber parser where for Allegro Gerber files the Gerber units were incorrectly detected
improved Mark Area Tool in Gerber Editor such that at each launch the previous markings are deleted

11.08.2019

small changes regarding the Project Title
trying to fix reported bugs
made sure that the annotations are deleted when the object that contain them is deleted
fixed issue where the annotations for all the CNCJob objects are toggled together whenever the ones for an single object are toggled
optimizations in GeoEditor
updated translations

10.08.2019

added new feature in NCC Tool: now another object can be used as reference for the area extent to be cleared of copper
fixed issue in the latest feature in NCC Tool: now it works also with reference objects made out of LineStrings (tool 'Path' in Geometry Editor)
translation files updated for the new strings (Google Translate)
RELEASE 8.93

9.08.2019

added Exception handing for the case when the user is trying to save & overwrite a file already opened in another file
finished added 'Area' type of Paint in Paint Tool
fixed bug that created a choppy geometry for CNCJob when working in INCH
fixed bug that did not asked the user to save the preferences after importing a new set of preferences, after the user is trying to close the Preferences tab window

7.08.2019

replaced setFixedWidth calls with setMinimumWidth
recoded the camlib.Geometry.isolation_geometry() function
started to work on Paint Area in Paint Tool

6.08.2019

fixed bug that crashed the app after creating a new geometry, if a new object is loaded and the new geometry is deleted and then trying to select the just loaded new object
made some GUI elements in Edit -> Preferences to have a minimum width as opposed to the previous fixed one
fixed issue in the isolation function, if the isolation can't be done there will be generated no Geometry object
some minor UI changes
strings added and translations updated

5.08.2019

made sure that if using an negative Gerber isolation diameter, the resulting Geometry object will use a tool with positive diameter
fixed bug that when isolating a Gerber file made out of a single polygon, an RecursionException was issued together with inability to create tbe isolation
when applying a new language if there are any changes in the current project, the app will offer to save the project before the reboot

3.08.2019

added project name to the window title
fulfilled request: When saving a CNC file, if the file name is changed in the OS window, the new name does appear in the “Selected” (in name) and “Project” tabs (in cnc_job)
solved bug such that the app is not crashing when some apertures in the Gerber file have no geometry. More than that, now the apertures that have geometry elements are bolded as opposed to the ones without geometry for which the text is unbolded
merged a pull request with language changes for Russian translate
updated the other translations

31.07.2019

changed the order of the menu entries in the FIle -> Open ...
organized the list of recent files so the Project entries are to the top and separated from the other types of file
work on identification of changes in Preferences tab
added categories names for the recent files
added a detection if any values are changed in the Edit -> Preferences window and on close it will ask the user if he wants to save the changes or not
created a new menu entry in the File menu named Recent projects that will hold the recent projects and the previous "Recent files" will hold only the previous loaded files
updated all translations for the new strings
fixed bug recently introduced that when changing the units in the Edit -> Preferences it did not converted the values
fixed another bug that when selecting an Excellon object after disabling it it crashed the app
RELEASE 8.92

30.07.2019

fixed bug that crashed the software when trying to edit a GUI value in Geometry selected tab without having a tool in the Tools Table
fixed bug that crashed the app when trying to add a tool without a tool diameter value
Spanish Google translation at 77%
changed the Disable plots menu entry in the context menu, into a Toggle Visibility menu entry
Spanish Google translation 100% but two strings (big ones) - needs review
added two more strings to translation strings (due of German language)
completed the Russian translation using the Google and Yandex translation engines (minus two big strings) - needs review

28.07.2019

fixed issue with not using the current units in the tool tables after unit conversion
after unit conversion from Preferences, the default values are automatically saved by the app
in Basic mode, the tool type column is no longer hidden as it may create issues when using an painted geometry
some PEP8 clean-up in FlatCAMGui.py
fixed Panelize Tool to do panelization for multiple passes type of geometry that comes out of the isolation done with multiple passes

20.07.2019

updated the CutOut tool so it will work on single PCB Gerbers or on PCB panel Gerbers
updated languages
70% progress in Spanish Google translation

19.07.2019

fixed bug in FlatCAMObj.GeometryObject.ui_disconnect(); the widgets signals were not disconnected from handlers when required therefore the signals were connected in an exponential way
some changes in the widgets used in the Selected tab for Geometry object
some PEP8 cleanup in FlatCAMObj.py
updated languages
60% progress in Spanish Google translation

17.07.2019

added some more strings to the translatable ones, especially the radio button labels
updated the .POT file and the available translations
51% progress in Spanish Google translation
version date change

16.07.2019

PEP8 correction in flatcamTools
merged the Brazilian-portuguese language from a pull request made by Carlos Stein
more PEP8 corrections

15.07.2019

some PEP8 corrections

13.07.2019

fixed a possible issue in Gerber Object class
added a new tool in Gerber Editor: Mark Area Tool. It will mark the polygons in a edited Gerber object with areas within a defined range, allowing to delete some of the not necessary copper features
added new menu links in the Gerber Editor menu for Eraser Tool and Mark Area Tool
added key shortcuts for Eraser Tool (Ctrl+E) and Mark Area Tool (Alt+A) and updated the shortcuts list

9.07.2019

some changes in the app.on_togle_units() to make sure we don't try to convert empty parameters which may cause crashes on FlatCAM units change
updated setup_ubuntu.sh file
made sure to import certain libraries in some of the FlatCAM files and not to rely on chained imports

8.07.2019

fixed bug that allowed empty tool in the tools generated in Geometry object
fixed bug in Tool Cutout that did not allow the transfer of used cutout tool diameter to the cutout geometry object

5.07.2019

fixed bug in CutOut Tool
some other bug in CutOut tool fixed

1.07.2019

Spanish translation at 36%

28.06.2019

Spanish translation (Google Translate) at 21%

27.06.2019

added new translation: Spanish. Finished 10%

23.06.2019

fixes issues with units conversion when the tool diameters are a list of comma separated values (NCC Tool, SolderPaste Tool and Geometry Object)
fixed a "typo" kind of bug in SolderPaste Tool
RELEASE 8.919

22.06.2019

some GUI layout optimizations in Edit -> Preferences
added the possibility for multiple tool diameters in the Edit -> Preferences -> Geometry -> Geometry General -> Tool dia separated by comma
fixed scaling for the multiple tool diameters in Edit -> Preferences -> Geometry -> Geometry General -> Tool dia, for NCC tools more than 2 and for Solderpaste nozzles more than 2
fixed bug in CNCJob where the CNC Tools table will show always only 2 decimals for Tool diameters regardless of the current measuring units
made the tools diameters decimals in case of INCH FlatCAM units to be 4 instead of 3
fixed bug in updating Grid values whenever toggling the FlatCAM units and the X, Y Grid values are linked, bugs which caused the Y value to be scaled incorrectly
set the decimals for Grid values to be set to 6 if the units of FlatCAM is INCH and to set to 4 if FlatCAM units are METRIC
updated translations
updated the Russian translation from 51% complete to 69% complete using the Yandex translation engine
fixed recently introduced bug in milling drills/slots functions
moved Substract Tool from Menu -> Edit -> Conversions to Menu -> Tool
fixed bug in Gerber isolation (Geometry expects now a value in string format and not float)
fixed bug in Paint tool: now it is possible to paint geometry generated by External Isolation (or Internal isolation)
fixed bug in editing a multigeo Geometry object if previously a tool was deleted
optimized the toggle of annotations; now there is no need to replot the entire CNCJob object too on toggling of the annotations
on toggling off the plot visibility the annotations are turned off too
updated translations; Russian translation at 76% (using Yandex translator engine - needs verification by a native speaker of Russian)

20.06.2019

fixed Scale and Buffer Tool in Gerber Editor
fixed Editor Transform Tool in Gerber Editor
added a message in the status bar when copying coordinates to clipboard with SHIFT + LMB click combo
languages update

19.06.2019

milling an Excellon file (holes and/or slots) will now transfer the chosen milling bit diameter to the resulting Geometry object

17.06.2019

fixed bug where for Geometry objects after a successful object rename done in the Object collection view (Project tab), deselect the object and reselect it and then in the Selected tab the name is not the new one but the old one
for Geometry objects, adding a new tool to the Tools table after a successful rename will now store the new name in the tool data

15.06.2019

fixed bug in Gerber parser that made the Gerber files generated by Altium Designer 18 not to be loaded
fixed bug in Gerber editor - on multiple edits on the same object, the aperture size and dims were continuously multiplied due of the file units not being updated
restored the FlatCAMObj.visible() to a non-threaded default

11.06.2019

fixed the Edit -> Conversion -> Join ... functions (merge() functions)
updated translations
Russian translate by @camellan is not finished yet
some PEP8 cleanup in camlib.py
RELEASE 8.918

9.06.2019

updated translations
fixed the the labels for shortcut keys for zoom in and zoom out both in the Menu links and in the Shortcut list
made sure the zoom functions use the global_zoom_ratio parameter from App.self.defaults dictionary.
some PEP8 cleanup

8.06.2019

make sure that the annotation shapes are deleted on creation of a new project
added folder for the Russian translation
made sure that visibility for TextGroup is set only if index is not None in VisPyVisuals.TextGroup.visible() setter

7.06.2019

fixed bug in ToolCutout where creating a cutout object geometry from another external isolation geometry failed
fixed bug in cncjob TclCommand where the gcode could not be correctly generated due of missing bounds params in obj.options dict
fixed a hardcoded tolerance in GeometryObject.generatecncjob() and in GeometryObject.mtool_gen_cncjob() to use the parameter from Preferences
updated translations

5.06.2019

updated translations
some layout changes in Edit -> Preferences such that the German translation (longer words than English) to fit correctly
after editing an parameter the focus is lost so the user knows that something happened

4.06.2019

PEP8 updates in AppExcEditor.py
added the Excellon Editor parameters to the Edit -> Preferences -> Excellon GUI
fixed a small bug in Excellon Editor
PEP8 cleanup in FlatCAMGui
finished adding the Excellon Editor parameters into the app logic and added a selection limit within Excellon Editor just like in the other editors

3.06.2019

TclCommand Geocutout is now creating a new geometry object when working on a geometry, preserving also the origin object
added a new parameter in Edit -> Preferences -> CNCJob named Annotation Color; it controls the color of the font used for annotations
added a new parameter in Edit -> Preferences -> CNCJob named Annotation Size; it controls the size of the font used for annotations
made visibility change threaded in FlatCAMObj()

2.06.2019

fixed issue with geometry name not being updated immediately after change while doing geocutout TclCommand
some changes to enable/disable project context menu entry handlers

1.06.2019

fixed text annotation for CNC job so there are no overlapping numbers when 2 lines meet on the same point
fixed issue in CNC job plotting where some of the isolation polygons are painted incorrectly
fixed issue in CNCJob where the set circle steps is not used

31.05.2019

added the possibility to display text annotation for the CNC travel lines. The setting is both in Preferences and in the CNC object properties

30.05.2019

editing a multi geometry will no longer pop-up a Tcl window
solved issue #292 where a new geometry renamed with many underscores failed to store the name in a saved project
the name for the saved projects are updated to the current time and not to the time of the app startup
some PEP8 changes related to comments starting with only one '#' symbol
more PEP8 cleanup
solved issue where after the opening of an object the file path is not saved for further open operations

24.05.2019

added a toggle Grid button to the canvas context menu in the Grids submenu
added a toggle left panel button to the canvas context menu

23.05.2019

fixed bug in Gerber editor FCDisk and DiscSemiEditorGrb that the resulting geometry was not stored into the 0 aperture where all the solids are stored
fixed minor issue in Gerber Editor where apertures were included in the saved object even if there was no geometric data for that aperture
some PEP8 cleanup in FlatCAMApp.py

22.05.2019

Geo Editor - added a new editor tool, Eraser
some PEP8 cleanup of the Geo Editor
fixed some selection issues in the new tool Eraser in Geometry Editor
updated the translation files
RELEASE 8.917

21.05.2019

added the file extension .ncd to the Excellon file extension list
solved parsing issue for Excellon files generated by older Eagle versions (v6.x)
Gerber Editor: finished a new tool: Eraser. It will erase certain parts of Gerber geometries having the shape of a selected shape.

20.05.2019

more PEP8 changes in Gerber editor
Gerber Editor - started to work on a new editor tool: Eraser

19.05.2019

fixed the Circle Steps parameter for both Gerber and Geometry objects not being applied and instead the app internal defaults were used.
fixed the Tcl command Geocutout issue that gave an error when using the 4 or 8 value for gaps parameter
made wider the '#' column for Apertures Table for Gerber Object and for Gerber Editor; in this way numbers with 3 digits can be seen
PEP8 corrections in AppGerberEditor.py
added a selection limit parameter for Geometry Editor
added entries in Edit -> Preferences for the new parameter Selection limit for both the Gerber and Geometry Editors.
set the buttons in the lower part of the Preferences Window to have a preferred minimum width instead of fixed width
updated the translation files

18.05.2019

added a new toggle option in Edit -> Preferences -> General Tab -> App Preferences -> "Open" Behavior. It controls which path is used when opening a new file. If checked the last saved path is used when saving files and the last opened path is used when opening files. If unchecked then the path for the last action (either open or save) is used.
fixed App.convert_any2gerber to work with the new Gerber apertures data structure
fixed Tool Sub to work with the new Gerber apertures data structure
fixed Tool PDF to work with the new Gerber apertures data structure

17.05.2019

remade the Tool Cutout to work on panels
remade the Tool Cutout such that on multiple applications on the same object it will yield the same result
fixed an issue in the remade Cutout Tool where when applied on a single Gerber object, the Freeform Cutout produced no cutout Geometry object
remade the Properties Tool such that it works with the new Gerber data structure in the obj.apertures. Also changed the view for the Gerber object in Properties
fixed issue with false warning that the Gerber object has no geometry after an empty Gerber was edited and added geometry elements

16.05.2019

Gerber Export: made sure that if some of the coordinates in a Gerber object geometry are repeating then the resulting Gerber code include only one copy
added a new parameter/feature: now the spindle can work in clockwise mode (CW) or counter clockwise mode (CCW)

15.05.2019

rewrited the Gerber Parser in camlib - success
moved the self.apertures[aperture]['geometry'] processing for clear_geometry (geometry made with Gerber LPC command) in Gerber Editor
Gerber Editor: fixed the Poligonize Tool to work with new geometric structure and took care of a special case
Gerber Export is fixed to work with the new Gerber object data structure and it now works also for Gerber objects edited in Gerber Editor
Gerber Editor: fixed units conversion for obj.apertures keys that require it
camlib Gerber parser - made sure that we don't loose goemetry in regions
Gerber Editor - made sure that for some tools the added geometry is clean (the coordinates are non repeating)
covered some possible issues in Gerber Export

12.05.2019

some modifications to ToolCutout

11.05.2019

fixed issue in camlib.CNCjob.generate_from_excellon_by_tool() in the drill path optimization algorithm selection when selecting the MH algorithm. The new API's for Google OR-tools required some changes and also the time parameter can be now just an integer therefore I modified the GUI
made the Feedrate Rapids parameter to depend on the type of preprocessor choosed. It will be showed only for a preprocessor which the name contain 'marlin' and for any preprocessor's that have 'custom' in the name
fixed the camlib.Gerber functions of mirror, scale, offset, skew and rotate to work with the new data structure for apertures geometry
fixed Gerber Editor selection to work with the new Gerber data structure in self.apertures
fixed Gerber Editor PadEditorGrb class to work with the new Gerber data structure in self.apertures
fixed camlib.Gerber issues related to what happen after parsing rectangular apertures
wip in camblib.Gerber
completely converted the Gerber editor to the new data structure
Gerber Editor: added a threshold limit for how many elements a move selection can have. If above the threshold only a bounding box Poly will be painted on canvas as utility geometry.

10.05.2019

Gerber Editor - working in conversion to the new data format
made sure that only units toggle done in Edit -> Preferences will toggle the data in Preferences. The menu entry Edit -> Toggle Units and the shortcut key 'Q' will change only the display units in the app
optimized Transform tool
RELEASE 8.916

9.05.2019

reworked the Gerber parser

8.05.2019

added zoom fit for Set Origin command
added move action for solid_geometry stored in the gerber_obj.apertures
fixed camlib.Gerber skew, rotate, offset, mirror functions to work for geometry stored in the Gerber apertures
fixed Gerber Editor follow_geometry reconstruction
Geometry Editor: made the tool to be able to continuously move until the tool is exited either by ESC key or by right mouse button click
Geometry Editor Move Tool: if no shape is selected when triggering this tool, now it is possible to make the selection inside the tool
Gerber editor Move Tool: fixed a bug that repeated the plotting function unnecessarily
Gerber editor Move Tool: if no shape is selected the tool will exit

7.05.2019

remade the Tool Panelize GUI
work in Gerber Export: finished the header export
fixed the Gerber Object and Gerber Editor Apertures Table to not show extra rows when there are aperture macros in the object
work in Gerber Export: finished the body export but have some errors with clear geometry (LPC)
Gerber Export - finished

6.05.2019

made units change from shortcut key 'Q' not to affect the preferences
made units change from Edit -> Toggle Units not to affect the preferences
remade the way the aperture marks are plotted in Gerber Object
fixed some bugs related to moving an Gerber object with the aperture table in view
added a new parameter in the Edit -> Preferences -> App Preferences named Geo Tolerance. This parameter control the level of geometric detail throughout FlatCAM. It directly influence the effect of Circle Steps parameter.
solved a bug in Excellon Editor that caused app crash when trying to edit a tool in Tool Table due of missing a tool offset
updated the ToolPanelize tool so the Gerber panel of type GerberObject can be isolated like any other GerberObject object
updated the ToolPanelize tool so it can be edited
modified the default values for toolchangez and endz parameters so they are now safe in all cases

5.05.2019

another fix for bug in clear geometry processing for Gerber apertures
added a protection for the case that the aperture table is part of a deleted object
in Script Editor added support for auto-add closing parenthesis, brace and bracket
in Script Editor added support for "CTRL + / " key combo to comment/uncomment line

4.05.2019

fixed bug in camlib.parse_lines() in the clear_geometry processing section for self.apertures
fixed bug in parsing Gerber regions (a point was added unnecessary)
renamed the menu entry Edit -> Copy as Geo to Convert Any to Geo and moved it in the Edit -> Conversion
created a new function named Convert Any to Gerber and installed it in Edit -> Conversion. It's doing what the name say: it will convert an Geometry or Excellon FlatCAM object to a Gerber object.

01.05.2019

the project items color is now controlled from Foreground Role in ObjectCollection.data()
made again plot functions threaded but moved the dataChanged signal (update_view() ) to the main thread by using an already existing signal (plots_updated signal) to avoid the errors with register QVector
Enable/Disable Object toggle key ("Space" key) will trigger also the datChanged signal for the Project MVC
added a new setting for the color of the Project items, the color when they are disabled.
fixed a crash when triggering 'Jump To' menu action (shortcut key 'J' worked ok)
made some mods to what can be translated as some of the translations interfered with the correct functioning of FlatCAM
updated the translations
fixed bugs in Excellon Editor
Excellon Editor: made Add Pad tool to work until right click
Excellon Editor: fixed mouse right click was always doing popup context menu
GUIElements.FCEntry2(): added a try-except clause
made sure that the Tools Tab is cleared on Editors exit
Geometry Editor: restored the old behavior: a tool is active until it is voluntarily exited: either by using the 'ESC' key, or selecting the Select tool or new: right click on canvas
RELEASE 8.915

30.04.2019

in ObjectCollection class, made sure that renaming an object in Project View does not result in an empty name. If new name is blank the rename is cancelled.
made ObjectCollection.TreeItem() inherit KeySensitiveListVIew and implicitly QTreeView (in the hope that the theme applied on app will be applied on the tree items, too (for MacOs new DarkUI theme)
renamed SilkScreen Tool to Substract Tool and move it's menu location in Edit -> Conversion
started to modify the Substract Tool to work on Geometry objects too
progress in the new Substract Tool for Geometry Objects
finished the new Substract Tool
added new setting for the color of the Project Tree items; it helps in providing contrast when using dark theme like the one in MacOS

29.04.2019

solved bug in Gerber Editor: the 0 aperture (the region aperture) had no size which created errors. Made the size to be zero.
solved bug in editors: the canvas selection shape was not deleted on mouse release if the grid snap was OFF
solved bug in Excellon Editor: when selecting a drill hole on canvas the selected row in the Tools Table was not the correct one but the next highest row
finished the Silkscreen Tool but there are some limitations (some wires fragments from silkscreen are lost)
solved the issue in Silkscreen Tool with losing some fragments of wires from silkscreen

26.04.2019

small changes in GUI; optimized contextual menu display
made sure that the Project Tab is disabled while one of the Editors is active and it is restored after returning to app
fixed some bugs recently introduced in Editors due of the changes done to the way mouse panning is detected
cleaned up the context menu's when in Editors; made some structural changes
updated the code in camlib.CNCJob.generate_from_excellon_by_tools() to work with the new API from Google OR-Tools
all Gerber regions (G36 G37) are stored in the 0 aperture
fixed a bug that added geometry with clear polarity in the apertures where was not supposed to be

25.04.2019

Geometry Editor: modified the intersection (if the selected shapes don't intersects preserve them) and substract functions (delete all shapes that were used in the process)
work in the ToolSub
for all objects, if in Selected the object name is changed to the same name, the rename is not done (because there is nothing changed)
fixed Edit -> Copy as Geom function handler to work for Excellon objects, too
made sure that the mouse pointer is restored to default on Editor exit
added a toggle button in Preferences to toggle on/off the display of the selection box on canvas when the user is clicking an object or selecting it by mouse dragging.

24.04.2019

PDF import tool: working in making the PDF layer rendering multithreaded in itself (one layer rendered on each worker)
PDF import tool: solved a bug in parsing the rectangle subpath (an extra point was added to the subpath creating nonexisting geometry)
PDF import tool: finished layer rendering multithreading
New tool: Silkscreen Tool: I am trying to remove the overlapped geo with the soldermask layer from overlay layer; layed out the class and functions - not working yet

23.04.2019

Gerber Editor: added two new tools: Add Disc and Add SemiDisc (porting of Circle and Arc from Geometry Editor)
Gerber Editor: made Add Pad repeat until user exits the Add Pad through either mouse right click, or ESC key or deselecting the Add Pad menu item
Gerber and Geometry Editors: fixed some issues with the Add Arc/Add Semidisc; in mode 132, the norm() function was not the one from numpy but from a FlatCAM Class. Also fixed some of the texts and made sure that when changing the mode, the current points are reset to prepare for the newly selected mode.
Fixed Measurement Tool to show the mouse coordinates on the status bar (it was broken at some point)
updated the translation files
added more custom mouse cursors in Geometry and Gerber Editors
RELEASE 8.914

22.04.2019

added PDF file as type in the Recent File list and capability to load it from there
PDF's can be drag & dropped on the GUI to be loaded
PDF import tool: added support for save/restore Graphics stack. Only for scale and offset transformations and for the linewidth. This is the final fix for Microsoft PDF printer who saves in PDF format 1.7
PDF Import tool: added support for PDF files that embed multiple Gerber layers (top, bottom, outline, silkscreen etc). Each will be opened in it's own Gerber file. The requirement is that each one is drawn in a different color
PDF Import tool: fixed bugs when drag & dropping PDF files on canvas the files geometry previously opened was added to the new one. Also scaling issues. Solved.
PDF Import tool: added support for detection of circular geometry drawn with white color which means actually invisible color. When detected, FlatCAM will build an Excellon file out of those geoms.
PDF Import tool: fixed storing geometries in apertures with the right size (before they were all stored in aperture D10)

21.04.2019

fixed the PDF import tool to work with files generated by the Microsoft PDF printer (chained subpaths)
in PDF import tool added support for paths filled and at the same time stroked ('B' and 'B*'commands)
added a shortcut key for PDF Import Tool (Alt+Q) and updated the Shortcut list (also with the 'T' and 'R' keys for Gerber Editor where they control the bend in Track and Region tool and the 'M' and 'D' keys for Add Arc tool in Geometry Editor)

20.04.2019

finished adding the PDF import tool although it does not support all kinds of outputs from PDF printers. Microsoft PDF printer is not supported.

19.04.2019

started to work on PDF import tool

18.04.2019

Gerber Editor: added custom mouse cursors for each mode in Add Track Tool
Gerber Editor: Poligonize Tool will first fuse polygons that touch each other and at a second try will create a polygon. The polygon will be automatically moved to Aperture 0 (regions).
Gerber Editor: Region Tool will add regions only in 0 aperture
Gerber Editor: the bending mode will now survive until the tool is exited
Gerber Editor: solved some bugs related with deleting an aperture and updating the last_selected_aperture

17.04.2019

Gerber Editor: added some messages to warn user if no selection exists when trying to do aperture deletion or aperture geometry deletion
fixed version check
added custom mouse cursors for some tools in Gerber Editor
Gerber Editor: added multiple modes to lay a Region: 45-degrees, reverse 45-degrees, 90-degrees, reverse 90-degrees and free-angle. Added also key shortcuts 'T' and 'R' to cycle forward, respectively in reverse through the modes.
Excellon Editor: fixed issue not remembering last tool after adding a new tool
added custom mouse cursors for Excellon and Geometry Editors in some of their tools

16.04.2019

added ability to use ENTER key to finish tool adding in Editors, NCC Tool, Paint Tool and SolderPaste Tool.
Gerber Editor: started to add modes of laying a track
Gerber Editor: Add Track Tool: added 5 modes for laying a track: 45-degrees, reverse-45 degrees, 90-degrees, reverse 90-degrees and free angle. Key 'T' will cycle forward through the modes and key 'R' will cycle in reverse through the track laying modes.
Gerber Editor: Add Track Tool: first right click will finish the track. Second right click will exit the Track Tool and return to Select Tool.
Gerber Editor: added protections for the Pad Array and Pad Tool for the case when the aperture size is zero (the aperture where to store the regions)

15.04.2019

working on a new tool to process automatically PcbWizard Excellon files which are generated in 2 files
finished ToolPcbWizard; it will autodetect the Excellon format, units from the INF file
Gerber Editor: reduced the delay to show UI when editing an empty Gerber object
update the order of event handlers connection in Editors to first connect new handlers then disconnect old handlers. It seems that if nothing is connected some VispY functions like canvas panning no longer works if there is at least once nothing connected to the 'mouse_move' event
Excellon Editor: update so always there is a tool selected even after the Excellon object was just edited; before it always required a click inside of the tool table, not you do it only if needed.
fixed the menu File -> Edit -> Edit/Close Editor entry to reflect the status of the app (Editor active or not)
added support in Excellon parser for autodetection of Excellon file format for the Excellon files generated by the following ECAD sw: DipTrace, Eagle, Altium, Sprint Layout
Gerber Editor: finished a new tool: Poligonize Tool (Alt+N in Editor). It will fuse a selection of tracks into a polygon. It will fill a selection of polygons if they are apart and it will make a single polygon if the selection is overlapped. All the newly created filled polygons will be stored in aperture 0 (if it does not exist it will be automatically created)
fixed a bug in Move command in context menu who crashed the app when triggered
Gerber Editor: when adding a new aperture it will be store as the last selected and it will be used for any tools that are triggered until a new aperture is selected.

14.04.2019

Gerber Editor: Remade the processing of 'clear_geometry' (geometry generated by polygons made with Gerber LPC command) to work if more than one such polygon exists
Gerber Editor: a disabled/enabled sequence for the VisPy cursor on Gerber edit make the graphics better
Editors: activated an old function that was no longer active: each tool can have it's own set of shortcut keys, the Editor general shortcut keys that are letters are overridden
Gerber and Geometry editors, when using the Backspace keys for certain tools, they will backtrack one point but now the utility geometry is immediately updated
In Geometry Editor I fixed bug in Arc modes. Arc mode shortcut key is now key 'M' and arc direction change shortcut key is 'D'
moved the key handler out of the Measurement tool to flatcamGUI.FlatCAMGui.keyPressEvent()
Gerber Editor: started to add new function of poligonize which should make a filled polygon out of a shape
cleaned up Measuring Tool
solved bug in Gerber apertures size and dimensions values conversion when file units are different than app units

13.04.2019

updating the German translation
Gerber Editor: added ability to change on the fly the aperture after one of the tools: Add Pad or Add Pad Array is activated
Gerber Editor: if a tool is cancelled via key shortcut ESCAPE, the selection is now deleted and any other action require a new selection
finished German translation (Google translated with some adjustments)
final fix for issue #277. Previous fix was applied only for one case out of three.
RELEASE 8.913

12.04.2019

Gerber Editor: added support for Oblong type of aperture
fixed an issue with automatically filled in aperture code when the edited Gerber file has no apertures; established an default with value 10 (according to Gerber specifications)
fixed a bug in editing a blank Gerber object
added handlers for the Gerber Editor context menu
updated the translation template POT file and the EN PO/MO files
Gerber Editor: added toggle effect to the Transform Tool
Gerber Editor: added shortcut for Transform Tool and also toggle effect here, too
updated the shortcut list with the Gerber Editor shortcut keys
Gerber Editor: fixed error when adding an aperture with code value lower than the ones that already exists
when adding an aperture with code 0 (zero) it will automatically be set with size zero and type: 'REG' (from region); here we store all the regions from a Gerber file, the ones without a declared aperture
Gerber Editor: added support for Gerber polarity change commands (LPD, LPC)
moved the polarity change processing from AppGerberEditor() class to camlib.Gerber().parse_lines()
made optional the saving of an edited object. Now the user can cancel the changes to the object.
replaced the standard buttons in the QMessageBox's used in the app with custom ones that can have text translated
updated the POT translation file and the MO/PO files for English and Romanian language

11.04.2019

changed the color of the marked apertures to the global_selection_color
Gerber Editor: added Transformation Tool and Rotation key shortcut
in all Editors, manually deactivating a button in the editor toolbar will automatically select the 'Select' button
fixed Excellon Editor selection: when a tool is selected in Tools Table, all the drills belonging to that tool are selected. When a drill is selected on canvas, the associated tool will be selected without automatically selecting all other drills with same tool
Gerber Editor: added Add Pad Array tool
Gerber Editor: in Add Pad Array tool, if the pad is not circular type, for circular array the pad will be rotated to match the array angle
Gerber Editor: fixed multiple selection with key modifier such that first click selects, second deselects

10.04.2019

Gerber Editor: added Add Track and Add Region functions
Gerber Editor: fixed key shortcuts
fixed setting the Layout combobox in Preferences according to the current layout
created menu links and shortcut keys for adding a new empty Gerber objects; on update of the edited Gerber, if the source object was an empty one (new blank one) this source obj will be deleted
removed the old apertures editing from Gerber Obj selected tab
Gerber Editor: added Add Pad (circular or rectangular type only)
Gerber Editor: autoincrement aperture code when adding new apertures
Gerber Editor: automatically calculate the size of the rectangular aperture

9.04.2019

Gerber Editor: added buffer and scale tools
Gerber Editor: working on aperture selection to show on Aperture Table
Gerber Editor: finished the selection on canvas; should be used as an template for the other Editors
Gerber Editor: finished the Copy, Aperture Add, Buffer, Scale, Move including the Utility geometry
Trying to fix bug in Measurement Tool: the mouse events don't disconnect
fixed above bug in Measurement Tool (but there is a TODO there)

7.04.2019

default values for Jump To function is jumping to origin (0, 0)

6.04.2019

fixed bug in Geometry Editor in buffer_int() function that created an Circular Reference Error when applying buffer interior on a geometry.
fixed issue with not possible to close the app after a project save.
preliminary Gerber Editor.on_aperture_delete()
fixed 'circular reference' error when creating the new Gerber file in Gerber Editor
preliminary Gerber Editor.on_aperture_add()

5.04.2019

Gerber Editor: made geometry transfer (which is slow) to Editor to be multithreaded
Gerber Editor: plotting process is showed in the status bar
increased the number of workers in FlatCAM and made the number of workers customizable from Preferences
WIP in Gerber Editor: geometry is no longer stored in a Rtree storage as it is not needed
changed the way delayed plot is working in Gerber Editor to use a Qtimer instead of python threading module
WIP in Gerber Editor
fixed bug in saving the maximized state
fixed bug in applying default language on first start ~~- on activating 'V' key shortcut (zoom fit) the mouse cursor is now jumping to origin (0, 0)~~
fixed bug in saving toolbars state; the file was saved before setting the self.defaults['global_toolbar_view]

4.04.2019

added support for Gerber format specification D (no zero suppression) - PCBWizard Gerber files support
added support for Excellon file with no info about tool diameters - PCB Wizard Excellon file support
modified the bogus diameters series for Excellon objects that do not have tool diameter info
made Excellon Editor aware of the fact that the Excellon object that is edited has fake (bogus) tool diameters and therefore it will not sort the tools based on diameter but based on tool number
fixed bug on Excellon Editor: when diameter is edited in Tools Table and the target diameter is already in the tool table, the drills from current tool are moved to the new tool (with new dia) - before it crashed
fixed offset after editing drill diameters in Excellon Editor.

3.04.2019

fixed plotting in Gerber Editor
working on GUI in Gerber Editor
added a Gcode end_command: default is M02
modified the calling of the on_editing_finished() slot function to fix an issue with updating geometry imported from SVG file, after edit
working on Gerber Editor - added the key shortcuts: wip
made saving of the project file non-blocking and also while saving the project file, if the user tries again to close the app while project file is being saved, the app will close only after saving is complete (the project file size is non zero)
fixed the camlib.Geometry.import_svg() and camlib.Gerber.bounds() to work when importing SVG files as Gerber

31.03.2019

fixed issue #281 by making generation of a convex shape for the freeform cutout in Tool Cutout a choice rather than the default
fixed bug in Tool Cutout, now in manual cutout mode the gap size reflect the value set
changed Measuring Tool to use the mouse click release instead of mouse click press; also fixed a bug when using the ESC key.
fixed errors when the File -> New Project is initiated while an Editor is still active.
the File->Exit action handler is now self.final_save()
wip in Gerber editor

29.03.2019

update the TCL keyword list
fix on the Gerber parser that makes searching for '%%' char optional when doing regex search for mode, units or image polarity. This allow loading Gerber files generated by the ECAD software TCl4.4
fix error in plotting Excellon when toggling units
FlatCAM editors now are separated each in it's own file
fixed TextTool in Geometry Editor so it will open the notebook on activation and close it after finishing text adding
started to work on a Gerber Editor
added a fix in the Excellon parser by allowing a comma in the tool definitions between the diameter and the rest

28.03.2019

About 45% progress in German translation
new feature: added ability to edit MultiGeo geometry (geometry from Paint Tool)
changed all the info messages that are of type warning, error or success so they have a space added after the keyword
changed the Romanian translation by adding more diacritics
modified Gerber parser to copy the follow_geometry in the self.apertures
modified the Properties Tool to show the number of elements in the follow_geometry for each aperture
modified the copy functions to copy the follow_geometry and also the apertures if it's possible (only for Gerber objects)

27.03.2019

added new feature: user can delete apertures in Advanced mode and then create a new FlatCAM Gerber object
progress in German translation. About 27% done.
fixed issue #278. Crash on name change in the Name field in the Selected Tab.

26.03.2019

fixed an issue where the Geometry plot function protested that it does not have an parameter that is used by the CNCJob plot function. But both inherit from FaltCAMObj plot function which does not have that parameter so something may need to be changed. Until then I provided a phony keyboard parameter to make that function 'shut up'
fixed bug: after using Paint Tool shortcut keys are disabled
added CNCJob geometry for the holes created by the drills from Excellon objects

25.03.2019

in the TCL completer if the word is already complete don't add it again but add a space
added all the TCL keywords in the completer keyword list
work in progress in German translation ~7%
after any autocomplete in TCL completer, a space is added
fixed an module import issue in NCC Tool
minor change (optimization) of the CNCJob UI
work in progress in German translation ~20%

22.03.2019

fixed an error that created a situation that when saving a project with some of the CNCJob objects disabled, on project reload the CNCJob objects are no longer loaded
fixed the Gerber.merge() function. When some of the Gerber files have apertures with same id, create a new aperture id for the object that is fused because each aperture id may hold different geometries.
changed the autoname for saving Preferences, Project and PNG file

20.03.2019

added autocomplete finish with ENTER key for the TCL Shell
made sure that the autocomplete function works only for FlatCAM Scripts
ESC key will trigger normal view if in full screen and the ESC key is pressed
added an icon and title text for the Toggle Units QMessageBox

19.03.2019

added autocomplete for Code editor;
autocomplete in Code Editor is finished by hitting either TAB key or ENTER key
fixed the Gerber.merge() to work for the case when one of the merged Gerber objects solid_geometry type is Polygon and not a list

18.03.2019

added ability to create new scripts and open scripts in FlatCAM Script Editor
the Code Editor tab name is changed according to the task; 'save' and 'open' buttons will have filters installed for the QOpenDialog fit to the task
added ability to run a FlatCAM Tcl script by double-clicking on the file
in Code Editor added shortcut combo key Ctrl+Shift+V to function as a Special Paste that will replace the '' char with '/' so the Windows paths will be pasted correctly for TCL Shell. Also doing SHIFT + LMB on the Paste in contextual menu is doing the same.

17.03.2019

remade the layout in 2Sided Tool
work in progress for translation in Romanian - 91%
changed some of the app strings formatting to work better with Poedit translation software
fixed bug in Drillcncjob TclCommand
finished translation in Romanian
made the translations work when the app is frozen with CX_freeze
some formatting changes for the application strings
some changes on how the first layout is applied
minor bug fixes (typos from copy/paste from another part of the program)

16.03.2019

fixed bug in Paint Tool - Single Poly: no geometry was generated
work in progress for translation in Romanian - 70%

13.03.2019

made the layout combobox current item from Preferences -> General window to reflect the current layout
remade the POT translate file
work in progress in translation for Romanian language 44%
fix for showing tools by activating them from the Menu - final fix.

11.03.2019

changed some icons here and there
fixed the Properties Project menu entry to work on the new way
in Properties tool now the Gerber apertures show the number of polygons in 'solid_geometry' instead of listing the objects
added a visual cue in Menu -> Edit about the entries to enter the Editor and to Save & Exit Editor. When one is enabled the other is disabled.
grouped all the UI files in flatcamGUI folder
grouped all parser files in flatcamParsers folder
another changes to the final_save() function
some strings were left outside the translation formatting - fixed
finished the replacement of '_' symbols throughout the app which conflicted with the _() function used by the i18n
reverted changes in Tools regarding the toggle effect - now they work as expected

10.03.2019

added a fix in the Gerber parser when adding the geometry in the self.apertures dict for the case that the current aperture is None (Allegro does that)
finished support for internationalization by adding a set of .po/.mo files for the English language. Unfortunately the final action can be done only when Beta will be out of Beta (no more changes) or when I will decide to stop working on this app.
changed the tooltip for 'feedrate_rapids' parameter to point out that this parameter is useful only for the Marlin preprocessor
fix app crash for the case that there are no translation files
fixed some forgotten strings to be prepared for internationalization in ToolCalculators
fixed Tools menu no longer working due of changes
added some test translation for the ToolCalculators (in Romanian)
fixed bug in ToolCutOut where for each tool invocation the signals were reconnected
fixed some issues with ToolMeasurement due of above changes
updated the App.final_save() function
fixed an issue created by the fact that I used the '_' char inside the app to designate unused info and that conflicted with the _() function used by gettext
made impossible to try to reapply current language that it's already applied (un-necessary)

8.03.2019

fixed issue when doing th CTRL (or SHIFT) + LMB, the focus is automatically moved to Project Tab
further work in internationalization, added a fallback to English language in case there is no translation for a string
fix for issue #262: when doing Edit-> Save & Close Editor on a Geometry that is not generated through first entering into an Editor, the geometry disappear
finished preparing for internationalization for the files: camlib and objectCollection
fixed tools shortcuts not working anymore due of the new toggle parameter for the .run().
finished preparing for internationalization for the files: FlatCAMEditor, MainGUI
finished preparing for internationalization for the files: FlatCAMObj, ObjectUI
sorted the languages in the Preferences combobox

7.03.2019

made showing a shape when hovering over objects, optional, by adding a Preferences -> General parameter
starting to work in internationalization using gettext()
Finished adding _() in FlatCAM Tools
fixed Measuring Tool - after doing a measurement the Notebook was switching to Project Tab without letting the user see the results
more work on the translation engine; the app now restarts after a language is applied
added protection against using Travel Z parameter with negative or zero value (in Geometry).
made sure that when the Measuring Tools is active after last click the Status bar is no longer deleted

6.03.2019

modified the way the FlatCAM Tools are run from toolbar as opposed of running them from other sources
some Gerber UI changes

5.03.2019

modified the grbl-laser preprocessor lift_code()
treated an error created by Z_Cut parameter being None
changed the hover and selection box transparency

4.03.2019

finished work on object hovering
fixed Excellon object move and all the other transformations
starting to work on Manual Cutout Tool
remade the CutOut Tool
finished Manual Cutout Tool by adding utility geometry to the cutting geometry
added CTRL + click behavior for adding manual bridge gaps in Cutout Tool
in Tool Cutout added shortcut key 'Escape' to cancel the current adding of bridge gaps

3.03.2019

minor UI changes for Gerber UI
~~after an object move, the apertures plotted shapes are deleted from canvas and the 'mark all' button is deselected~~
after move tool action or any other transform (rotate, skew, scale, mirror, offset), the plotted apertures are kept plotted.
changing units now will convert all the default values from one unit type to another
prettified the selection shape and the moving shape
initial work in object hovering shape

02.03.2019

fixed offset, rotate, scale, skew for follow_geometry. Fixed the move tool also.
fixed offset, rotate, scale, skew for 'solid_geometry' inside the self.apertures.

28.02.2019

added a change that when a double click is performed in a object on canvas resulting in a selection, if the notebook is hidden then it will be displayed
progress in ToolChange Custom commands replacement and rename

27.02.2019

made the Custom ToolChange Text area in CNCJob Selected Tab depend on the status of the ToolChange Enable Checkbox even in the init stage.
added some parameters throughout camlib gcode generation functions; handled some possible errors (e.g like when attempting to use an empty Custom GCode Toolchange)
added toggle effect for the tools in the toolbar.
enhanced the toggle effect for the tools in the Tools Toolbar and also for Notebook Tab selection: if the current tool is activated it will toggle the notebook side but only if the installed widget is itself. If coming from another tool, the notebook will stay visible
upgraded the Tool Cutout when done from Gerber file to create a convex_hull around the Gerber file rather than trying to isolate it
added some protections for the FlatCAM Tools run after an object was loaded

26.02.2019

added a function to read the parameters from ToolChange macro Text Box (I need to move it from CNCJob to Excellon and Geometry)
fixed the geometry adding to the self.apertures in the case when regions are done without declaring any aperture first (Allegro does that). Now, that geometry will be stored in the 0 aperture with type REG
work in progress to Toolchange_Custom code replacement -> finished the parse and replace function
fixed mouse selection on canvas, mouse drag, mouse click and mouse double click
fixed Gerber Aperture Table dimensions
added a Mark All button in the Gerber aperture table.
because adding shapes to the shapes collection (when doing Mark or Mark All) is time consuming I made the plot_aperture() threaded.
made the polygon fusing in modified Gerber creation, a list comprehension in an attempt for optimization
when right clicking the files in Project tab, the Save option for Excellon no longer export it but really save the original.
in ToolChange Custom Code replacement, the Text Box in the CNCJob Selected tab will be active only if there is a 'toolchange_custom' in the name of the preprocessor file. This assume that it is, or was created having as template the Toolchange Custom preprocessor file.

25.02.2019

fixed the Gerber object UI layout
added ability to mark individual apertures in Gerber file using the Gerber Aperture Table
more modifications for the Gerber UI layout; made 'follow' an advanced Gerber option
added in Preferences a new Category: Gerber Advanced Options. For now it controls the display of Gerber Aperture Table and the "follow" attribute4
fixed GerberObject.merge() to merge the self.apertures[ap]['solid_geometry'] too
started to work on a new feature that allow adding a ToolChange GCode macro - GUI added both in CNCJob Selected tab and in CNCJob Preferences
added a limited 'sort-of' Gerber Editor: it allows buffering and scaling of apertures

24.02.2019

fixed a small bug in the Tool Solder Paste: the App don't take into consideration pads already filled with solder paste.
prettified the defaults files and the recent file. Now they are ordered and human readable
added a Toggle Code Editor Menu and key shortcut
added the ability to open FlatConfig configuration files in Code Editor, Modify them and then save them.
added ability to double click the FlatConfig files and open them in the FlatCAM Code Editor (to be verified)
when saving a file from Code Editor and there is no object active then the OpenFileDialog filters are reset to FlatConfig files.
reverted a change in GCode that might affect Gerber polarity change in Gerber parser
ability to double click the FlatConfig files and open them in the FlatCAM Code Editor - fixed and verified
fixed the Set To Origin function when Escape was clicked
added all the Tools in a new ToolBar
fixed bug that after changing the layout all the toolbar actions are no longer working
fixed bug in Set Origin function
fixed a typo in Toolchange_Probe_MACH3 preprocessor

23.02.2019

remade the SolderPaste geometry generation function in ToolSoderPaste to work in certain scenarios where the Gerber pads in the SolderPaste mask Gerber may be just pads outlines
updated the Properties Tool to include more information's, also details if a Geometry is of type MultiGeo or SingleGeo
remade the Preferences GUI to include the Advanced Options in a separate way so it is obvious which are displayed when App Level is Advanced.
added protection, not allowing the user to make a Paint job on a MultiGeo geometry (one that is converted in the Edit -> Conversion menu)) because it is not supported

22.02.2019

added Repetier preprocessor file
removed "added ability to regenerate objects (it's actually deletion followed by recreation)" because of the way Python pass parameters to functions by reference instead of copy
added ability to toggle globally the display of ToolTips. Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Enable ToolTips checkbox.
added true fullscreen support (for Windows OS)
added the ability of context menu inside the GuiElements.FCCombobox() object.
remade the UI for ToolSolderPaste. The object comboboxes now have context menu's that allow object deletion. Also the last object created is set as current item in comboboxes.
some GUI elements changes

21.02.2019

added protection against creating CNCJob from an empty Geometry object (with no geometry inside)
changed the shortcut key for YouTube channel from F2 to key F4
changed the way APP LEVEL is showed both in Edit -> Preferences -> General tab and in each Selected Tab. Changed the ToolTips content for this.
added the functions for GCode View and GCode Save in Tool SolderPaste
some work in the Gcode generation function in Tool SolderPaste
added protection against trying to create a CNCJob from a solder_paste dispenser geometry. This one is different than the default Geometry and can be handled only by SolderPaste Tool.
ToolSolderPaste tools (nozzles) now have each it's own settings
creating the camlib functions for the ToolSolderPaste gcode generation functions
finished work in ToolSolderPaste
fixed issue with not updating correctly the plot kind (all, cut, travel) when clicking in the CNC Tools Table plot buttons
made the GCode Editor for ToolSolderPaste clear the text before updating the Code Editor tab
all the Tabs in Plot Area are closed (except Plot Area itself) on New Project creation
added ability to regenerate objects (it's actually deletion followed by recreation)

20.02.2019

finished added a Tool Table for Tool SolderPaste
working on multi tool solder paste dispensing
finished the Edit -> Preferences defaults section
finished the UI, created the preprocessor file template
finished the multi-tool solder paste dispensing: it will start using the biggest nozzle, fill the pads it can, and then go to the next smaller nozzle until there are no pads without solder.

19.02.2019

added the ability to compress the FlatCAM project on save with LZMA compression. There is a setting in Edit -> Preferences -> Compression Level between 0 and 9. 9 level yields best compression at the price of RAM usage and time spent.
made FlatCAM able to load old type (uncompressed) FlatCAM projects
fixed issue with not loading old projects that do not have certain information's required by the new versions of FlatCAM
compacted a bit more the GUI for Gerber Object
removed the Open Gerber with 'follow' menu entry and also the open_gerber Tcl Command attribute 'follow'. This is no longer required because now the follow_geometry is stored by default in a Gerber object attribute gerber_obj.follow_geometry
added a new parameter for the Tcl CommandIsolate, named: 'follow'. When follow = 1 (True) the resulting geometry will follow the Gerber paths.
added a new setting in Edit -> Preferences -> General that allow to select the type of saving for the FlatCAM project: either compressed or uncompressed. Compression introduce an time overhead to the saving/restoring of a FlatCAM project.
started to work on Solder Paste Dispensing Tool
fixed a bug in rotate from shortcut function
finished generating the solder paste dispense geometry

18.02.2019

added protections again wrong values for the Buffer and Paint Tool in Geometry Editor
the Paint Tool in Geometry Editor will load the default values from Tool Paint in Preferences
when the Tools in Geometry Editor are activated, the notebook with the Tool Tab will be unhidden. After execution the notebook will hide again for the Buffer Tool.
changed the font in Tool names
added in Geometry Editor a new Tool: Transformation Tool.
in Geometry Editor by selecting a shape with a selection shape, that object was added multiple times (one per each selection) to the selected list, which is not intended. Bug fixed.
finished adding Transform Tool in Geometry Editor - everything is working as intended
fixed a bug in Tool Transform that made the user to not be able to capture the click coordinates with SHIFT + LMB click combo
added the ability to choose an App QStyle out of the offered choices (different for each OS) to be applied at the next app start (Preferences -> General -> Gui Pref -> Style Combobox)
added support for FlatCAM usage with High DPI monitors (4k). It is applied on the next app startup after change in Preferences -> General -> Gui Settings -> HDPI Support Checkbox
made the app not remember the window size if the app is maximized and remember in QSettings if it was maximized. This way we can restore the maximized state but restore the windows size unmaximized
added a button to clear the GUI preferences in Preferences -> General -> Gui Settings -> Clear GUI Settings
added key shortcuts for the shape transformations within Geometry Editor: X, Y keys for Flip(mirror), Shift+X, Shift+Y combo keys for Skew and Alt+X, Alt+Y combo keys for Offset
adjusted the plotcanvas.zomm_fit() function so the objects are better fit into view (with a border around)
modified the GUI in Objects Selected Tab to accommodate 2 different modes: basic and Advanced. In Basic mode, some of the functionality's are hidden from the user.
added Tool Transform preferences in Edit -> Preferences and used them through out the app
made the output of Panelization Tool a choice out of Gerber and Geometry type of objects. Useful for those who want to engrave multiple copies of the same design.

17.02.2019

changed some status bar messages
New feature: added the capability to view the source code of the Gerber/Excellon file that was loaded into the app. The file is also stored as an object attribute for later use. The view option is in the project context menu and in Menu -> Options -> View Source
Serialized the source_file of the Objects so it is saved in the FlatCAM project and restored.
if there is a single tool in the tool list (Geometry , Excellon) and the user click the Generate GCode, use that tool even if it is not selected
fixed issue where after loading a project, if the default kind of CNCjob view is only 'cuts' the plot will revert to the 'all' type
in Editors, if the modifier key set in Preferences (CTRL or SHIFT key) is pressed at the end of one tool operation it will automatically continue to that action until the modifier is no longer pressed when Select tool will be automatically selected.
in Geometry Editor, on entry the notebook is automatically hidden and restored on Geometry Editor exit.
when pressing Escape in Geometry Editor it will automatically deselect any shape not only the currently selected tool.
when deselecting an object in Project menu the status bar selection message is deleted
added ability to save the Gerber file content that is stored in FlatCAM on Gerber file loading. It's useful to recover from saved FlatCAM projects when the source files are no longer available.
fixed an issue where the function handler that changed the layout had a parameter changed accidentally by an index value passed by the 'activate' signal to which was connected
fixed bug in paint function in Geometry Editor that didn't allow painting due of overlap value

16.02.2019

added the 'Save' menu entry to the Project context menu, for CNCJob: it will export the GCode.
added messages in info bar when selecting objects in the Project View list
fixed DblSided Tool so it correctly creates the Alignment Drills Excellon file using the new structure
fixed DblSided Tool so it will not crash the app if the user tries to make a mirror using no coordinates
added some relevant status bar messages in DblSided Tool
fixed DblSided Tool to correctly use the Box object (until now it used as reference only Gerber object in spite of Excellon or Geometry objects being available)
fixed DblSided Tool crash when trying to create Alignment Drills object without a Tool diameter specified
fixed DblSided Tool issue when entering Tool diameter values with comma decimal separator instead of decimal dot separator
fixed Cutout Tool Freeform to generate cutouts with options: LR, TB. 2LR, 2TB which didn't worked previously
fixed Excellon parser to detect correctly the units and zeros for Excellon's generated by Eagle 9.3.0
modified the initial size of the canvas on startup
modified the build file (make_win.py) to solve the issue with suddenly not accepting the version as Beta
changed the initial layout to 'compact'
updated the install scripts to uninstall a previously installed FlatCAM Beta (that has the same GUID)

15.02.2019

rearranged the File and Edit menu's and added some explanatory tooltips on certain menu items that could be seen as cryptic
added Excellon Export Options in Edit -> Preferences
started to work in using the Excellon Export parameters
remade the Excellon export function to work with parameters entered in Edit -> Preferences -> Excellon Export
added a new entry in the Project Context Menu named 'Save'. It will actually work for Geometry and it will do Export DXF and for Excellon and it will do Export Excellon
reworked the offer to save a project so it is done only if there are objects in the project but those objects are new and/or are modified since last project load (if an old project was loaded.)
updated the Excellon plot function so it can plot the Excellon's from old projects
removed the message boxes that popup on Excellon Export errors and replaced them with status bar messages
small change in tab width so the tabs looks good in Linux, too.

14.02.2019

added total travel distance for CNCJob object created from Excellon Object in the CNCJob Selected tab
added 'FlatCAM ' prefix to any detached tab, for easy identification
remade the Grids context menu (right mouse button click on canvas). Now it has values linked to the units type (inch or mm). Added ability to add or delete grid values and they are persistent.
updated the function for the project context menu 'Generate CNC' menu entry (Action) to use the modernized function FlatCAMObj.GeometryObject.on_generatecnc_button_click()
when linked, the grid snap on Y will copy the value in grid snap on X in real time
in Gerber aperture table now the values are displayed in the current units set in FlatCAM
added shortcut key 'J' (jump to location) in Editors and added an icon to the dialog popup window
the notebook is automatically collapsed when there are no objects in the collection and it is showed when adding an object
added new options in Edit -> Preferences -> General -> App Preferences to control if the Notebook is showed at startup and if the notebook is closed when there are no objects in the collection and showed when the collection has objects.

13.02.2019

added new parameter for Excellon Object in Preferences: Fast Retract. If the checkbox is checked then after reaching the drill depth, the drill bit will be raised out of the hole asap.
started to work on GUI forms simplification
changed the Preferences GUI for Geometry and Excellon Objects to make a difference between parameters that are changed often and those that are not.
changed the layout in the Selected Tab UI
started to add apertures table support
finished Gerber aperture table display
made the Gerber aperture table not visible as default and added a checkbox that can toggle the visibility
fixed issue with plotting in CNCJob; with Plot kind set to something else than 'all' when toggling Plot, it was defaulting to kind = 'all'
added (and commented) an experimental FlatCAMObj.GerberObject.plot_aperture()

12.02.2019

whenever a FlatCAM tool is activated, if the notebook side is hidden it will be unhidden
reactivated the Voronoi classes
added a new parameter named Offset in the Excellon tool table - work in progress
finished work on Offset parameter in Excellon Object (Excellon Editor, camlib, FlatCAMObj updated to take this param in consideration)
fixed a bug where in Excellon editor when editing a file, a tool was automatically added. That is supposed to happen only for empty newly created Excellon Objects.
starting to work on storing the solid_geometry for each tool in part in Excellon Object
stored solid_geometry of Excellon object in the self.tools dictionary
finished the solid_geometry restore after edit in Excellon Editor
finished plotting selection for each tool in the Excellon Tool Table
fixed the camlib.Excellon.bounds() function for the new type of Excellon geometry therefore fixed the canvas selection, too

10.02.2019

the SELECTED type of messages are no longer printed to shell from 2 reasons: first, too much spam and second, issue with displaying html
on set_zero function and creation of new geometry or new excellon there is no longer a zoom fit
repurposed shortcut key 'Delete' to delete tools in tooltable when the mouse is over the Seleted tab (with Geometry inside) or in Tools tab (when NCC Tool or Paint Tool is inside). Or in Excellon Editor when mouse is hovering the Selected tab selecting a tool, 'Delete' key will delete that tool, if on canvas 'Delete' key will delete a selected shape (drill). In rest, will delete selected objects.
adjusted the preprocessor files so the Spindle Off command (M5) is done before the move to Toolchange Z
adjusted the Toolchange Manual preprocessor file to have more descriptive messages on the toolchange event
added a strong focus to the object_name entry in the Selected tab
the keypad keyPressed are now detected correctly
added a pause and message/warning to do a rough zero for the Z axis, in case of Toolchange_Probe_MACH3 preprocessor file
changes in Toolchange_Probe_MACH3 preprocessor file

9.02.2019

added a protection for when saving a file first time, it require a saved path and if none then it use the current working directory
added into Preferences the Calculator Tools
made the Preferences window scrollable on the horizontal side (it was only vertically scrollable before)
fixed an error in Excellon Editor -> add drill array that could appear by starting the function to add a drill array by shortcut before any mouse move is registered while in Editor
changed the messages from status bar on new object creation/selection
in Geometry Editor fixed the handler for the Rotate shortcut key ('R')

8.02.2019

when shortcut keys 1, 2, 3 (tab selection) are activated, if the splitter left side (the notebook) is hidden it will be made visible
changed the menu entry Toggle Grid name to Toggle Grid Snap
fixed errors in Toggle Axis
fixed error with shortcut key triggering twice the keyPressEvent when in the Project List View
moved all shortcut keys handlers from Editors to the keyPressEvent() handler from FLatCAMGUI
in Excellon Editor added a protection for Tool_dia field in case numbers using comma as decimal separator are used. Also added a QDoubleValidator forcing a number with max 4 decimals and from 0.0000 to 9.9999
in Excellon Editor added a shortcut key 'T' that popup a window allowing to enter a new Tool with the set diameter
in App added a shortcut key 'T' that popup a windows allowing to enter a new Tool with set diameter only when the Selected tab is on focus and only if a Geometry object is selected
changed the shortcut key for Transform Tool from 'T' to 'Alt+T'
fixed bug in Geometry Selected tab that generated error when used tool offset was less than half of either total length or half of total width. Now the app signal the issue with a status bar message
added Double Validator for the Offset value so only float numbers can be entered.
in App added a shortcut key 'T' that popup a windows allowing to enter a new Tool with set diameter only when the Tool tab is on focus and only if a NCC Tool or Paint Area Tool object is installed in the Tool Tab
if trying to add a tool using shortcut key 'T' with value zero the app will react with a message telling to use a non-zero value.

7.02.2019

in Paint Tool, when painting single polygon, when clicking on canvas for the polygon there is no longer a selection of the entire object
commented some debug messages
imported speedups for shapely
added a disable menu entry in the canvas contextual menu
small changes in Tools layout
added some new icons in the help menu and reorganized this menu
added a new function and the shortcut 'leftquote' (left of Key 1) for toggle of the notebook section
changed the Shortcut list shortcut key to F3
moved some graphical classes out of Tool Shell to GUIElements.py where they belong
when selecting an object on canvas by single click, it's name is displayed in status bar. When nothing is selected a blank message (nothing) it's displayed
in Move Tool I've added the type of object that was moved in the status bar message
color coded the status bar bullet to blue for selection
the name of the selected objects are displayed in the status bar color coded: green for Gerber objects, Brown for Excellon, Red for Geometry and Blue for CNCJobs.

6.02.2019

fixed the units calculators crash FlatCAM when using comma as decimal separator
done a regression on Tool Tab default text. It somehow delete Tools in certain scenarios so I got rid of it
fixed bug in multigeometry geometry not having the bounds in self.options and crashing the GCode generation
fixed bug that crashed whole application in case that the GCode editor is activated on a Tool gcode that is defective.
fixed bug in Excellon Slots milling: a value of a dict key was a string instead to be an int. A cast to integer solved it.
fixed the name self-insert in save dialog file for GCode; added protection in case the save path is None
fixed FlatCAM crash when trying to make drills GCode out of a file that have only slots.
changed the messages for Units Conversion
all key shortcuts work across the entire application; moved all the shortcuts definitions in MainGUI.keyPressEvent()
renamed the theme to layout because it is really a layout change
added plot kind for CNC Job in the App Preferences
combined the geocutout and cutout_any TCL commands - work in progress
added a new function (and shortcut key Escape) that when triggered it deselects all selected objects and delete the selection box(es)
fixed bug in Excellon Gcode generation that made the toolchange X,Y always none regardless of the value in Preferences
fixed the Tcl Command Geocutout to work with Gerber objects too (besides Geometry objects)

5.02.3019

added a text in the Selected Tab which is showed whenever the Selected Tab is selected but without having an object selected to display it's properties
added an initial text in the Tools tab
added possibility to use the shortcut key for shortcut list in the Notebook tabs
added a way to set the Probe depth if Toolchange_Probe preprocessors are selected
finished the preprocessor file for MACH3 tool probing on toolchange event
added a new parameter to set the feedrate of the probing in case the used preprocessor does probing (has toolchange_probe in it's name)
fixed bug in Marlin preprocessor for the Excellon files; the header and toolchange event always used the parenthesis witch is not compatible with GCode for Marlin
fixed a issue with a move to Z_move before any toolchange

4.02.2019

modified the Toolchange_Probe_general preprocessor file to remove any Z moves before the actual toolchange event
created a prototype preprocessor file for usage with tool probing in MACH3
added the default values for Tool Film and Tool Panelize to the Edit -> Preferences
added a new parameter in the Tool Film which control the thickness of the stroke width in the resulting SVG. It's a scale parameter.
whatever was the visibility of the corresponding toolbar when we enter in the Editor, it will be set after exit from the Editor (either Geometry Editor or Excellon Editor).
added ability to be detached for the tabs in the Notebook section (Project, Selected and Tool)
added ability for all detachable tabs to be restored to the same position from where they were detached.
changed the shortcut keys for Zoom In, Zoom Out and Zoom Fit from 1, 2, 3 to '-', '=' respectively 'V'. Added new shortcut keys '1', '2', '3' for Select Project Tab, Select Selected Tab and Select Tool Tab.
formatted the Shortcut List Tab into a HTML table

3.3.2019

updated the new shortcut list with the shortcuts added lately
now the special messages in the Shell are color coded according to the level. Before they all were RED. Now the WARNINGS are yellow, ERRORS are red and SUCCESS is a dark green. Also the level is in CAPS LOCK to make them more obvious
some more changes to GUI interface (solved issues)
added some status bar messages in the Geometry Editor to guide the user when using the Geometry Tools
now the '`' shortcut key that shows the 'shortcut key list' in Editors points to the same window which is created in a tab no longer as a pop-up window. This tab can be detached if needed.
added a remove_tools() function before install_tools() in the init_tools() that is called when creating a new project. Should solve the issue with having double menu entry's in the TOOLS menu
fixed remove_tools() so the Tcl Shell action is readded to the Tools menu and reconnected to it's slot function
added an automatic name on each save operation based on the object name and/or the current date
added more information's for the statistics

2.2.2019

code cleanup in Tools
some GUI structure optimization's
added protection against entering float numbers with comma separator instead of decimal dot separator in key points of FlatCAM (not everywhere)
added a choice of plotting the kind of geometry for the CNC plot (all, travel and cut kind of geometries) in CNCJob Selected Tab
added a new preprocessor file named: 'probe_from_zmove' which allow probing to be done from z_move position on toolchange event
fixed the snap magnet button in Geometry Editor, restored the checkable property to True
some more changes in the Editors GUI in deactivate() function
a fix for saving as empty an edited new and empty Excellon Object

1.02.2019

fixed preprocessor files so now the bounds values are right aligned (assuming max string length of 9 chars which means 4 digits and 4 decimals)
corrected small type in list_sys Tcl command; added a protection of the Plot Area Tab after a successful edit.
remade the way FlatCAM saves the GUI position data from a file (previously) to use PyQt QSettings
added a 'theme' combo selection in Edit -> Preferences. Two themes are available: standard and compact.
some code cleanup
fixed a source of possible errors in DetachableTab Widget.
fixed gcode conversion/scale (on units change) when multiple values are found on each line
replaced the pop-up window for the shortcut list with a new detachable tab
removed the pop-up messages from the rotate, skew, flip commands

31.01.2019

added a parameter ('Fast plunge' in Edit -> Preferences -> Geometry Options and Excellon Options) to control if the fast move to Z_move is done or not
added new function to toggle fullscreen status in Menu -> View -> Toggle Full Screen. Shortcut key: Alt+F10
added key shortcuts for Enable Plots, Disable Plots and Disable other plots functions (Alt+1, Alt+2, Alt+3)
hidden the snap magnet entry and snap magnet toggle from the main view; they are now active only in Editor Mode
updated the camlib.CNCJob.scale() function so now the GCode is scaled also (quite a HACK :( it will need to be replaced at some point)). Units change work now on the GCODE also.
added the bounds coordinates to the GCODE header
FlatCAM saves now to a file in self.data_path the toolbar positions and the position of TCL Shell
Plot Area Tab view can now be toggled, added entry in View Menu and shortcut key Ctrl+F10
All the tabs in the GUI right side are (Plot Are, Preferences etc) are now detachable to a separate windows which when closed it returns in the previous location in the toolbar. Those detached tabs can be also reattached by drag and drop.

30.01.2019

added a space before Y coordinate in end_code() function in some of the preprocessor files
added in Calculators Tool an Electroplating Calculator.
remade the App Menu for Editors: now they will be showed only when the respective Editor is active and hidden when the Editor is closed.
added a traceback report in the TCL Shell for the errors that don't allow creation of an object; useful to trace exceptions/errors
in case that the Toolchange X,Y parameter in Selected (or in Preferences) are deleted then the app will still do the job using the current coordinates for toolchange
fixed an issue in camlib.CNCJob where tha variable self.toolchange_xy was used for 2 different purposes which created loss of information.
fixed unit conversion functions in case the toolchange_xy parameter is None
more fixes in camlib.CNCJob regarding usage of toolchange (in case it is None)
fixed preprocessor files to work with toolchange_xy parameter value = None (no values in Edit - Preferences fields)
fixed Tcl commands CncJob and DrillCncJob to work with toolchange
added to the preprocessor files the command after toolchange to go with G00 (fastest) to "Z Move" value of Z pozition.

29.01.2019

fixed issue in Tool Calculators when a float value was entered starting only with the dot.
added protection for entering incorrect values in Offset and Scale fields for Gerber and Geometry objects (in Selected Tab)
added more shortcut keys in the Geometry Editor and in Excellon Editor; activated also the zoom (fit, in, out) shortcut keys ('1' , '2', '3') for the editors
disabled the context menu in tools table on Paint Tool in case that the painting method is single.
added protection when trying to do Intersection in Geometry Editor without having selected Geometry items.
fixed the scale, mirror, rotate, skew functions to work with Geometry Objects of multi-geometry type.
added a GUI for Excellon Search time for OR-TOOLS path optimization in Edit -> Preferences -> Excellon General -> Optimization Time
more changes in Edit -> Preferences -> Geometry, Gerber and in CNCJob
added new option for Cutout Tool Freeform Gaps in Edit -> Preferences -> Tools
fixed Freeform Cutout gaps issue (it was double than the value set)
added protection so the Cutout (either Freeform or Rectangular) cannot be done on a multigeo Geometry
added 2Sided Tool default values in Edit -> Preferences -> Tools
optimized the FlatCAMCNCJob.on_plot_cb_click_table() plot function and solved a bug regarding having tools numbers not in sync with the cnc tool table

28.01.2018

fixed the GerberObject.merge() function
added a new menu entry for the Gerber Join function: Edit -> Conversions -> "Join Gerber(s) to Gerber" allowing joining Gerber objects into a final Gerber object
moved Paint Tool defaults from Geometry section to the Tools section in Edit -> Preferences
added key shortcuts for Open Manual = F1 and for Open Online VideoHelp = F2

27.01.2018

added more key shortcuts into the application; they are now displayed in the GUI menu's
reorganized the Edit -> Preferences -> Global
redesigned the messagebox that is showed when quiting ot creating a New Project: now it has an option ('Cancel') to abort the process returning to the app
added options for trace segmentation that can be useful for auto-levelling (code snippet from Lei Zheng from a rejected pull request on FlatCAM https://bitbucket.org/realthunder/ )
added shortcut key 'L' for creating 'New Excellon'
added shortcut key combo 'Shift+S' for Running a Script.
modified GRBL_laser preprocessor file so it includes a Sxxxx command on the line with M03 (laser active) whenever a value is enter in the Spindlespeed entry field
remade the EDIT -> PREFERENCES window, the Excellon and Gerber sections. Created a new section named TOOLS

26.01.2019

fixed grbl_11 preprocessor in linear_code() function
added icons to the Project Tab context menu
added new entries to the Canvas context menu (Copy, Delete, Edit/Save, Move, New Excellon, New Geometry, New Project)
fixed GRBL_laser preprocessor file
updated function for copy of an Excellon object for the case when the object has slots
updated ExcellonObject.merge() function to work in case some (or all) of the merged objects have slots

25.01.2019

deleted junk folders
remade the Panelize Tool: now it is much faster, it is multi-threaded, it works with multitool geometries and it works with multigeo geometries too.
made sure to copy the options attribute to the final object in the case of: GeometryObject.merge(), GerberObject.merge() and for the Panelize Tool
modified the panelize TclCommand to take advantage of the new panelize() function; added a 'threaded' parameter (default value is 1) which controls the execution of the panelize TclCommand: threaded or non-threaded
fixed TclCommand Cutout
added a new TclCommand named CutoutAny. Keyword: cutout_any

24.01.2019

trying to fix painting single when the actual painted object it's a MultiPolygon
fixed the Copy Object function when the object is Gerber
added the Copy entry to the Project context menu
made the functions behind Disable and Enable project context menu entries, non-threaded to fix a possible issue
added multiple object selection on Open ... and Import ... (idea and code snippet came from Travers Carter, BitBucket user https://bitbucket.org/travc/)
fixed 'GRBL_laser' preprocessor bugs (missing functions)
fixed display geometry for 'GRBL_laser' preprocessor
Excellon Editor - added possibility to create an linear drill array rotated at an custom angle
added the Edit and Properties entries to the Project context menu

23.01.2019

added a new preprocessor file named 'line_xyz' which have x, y, z values on the same GCode line
fixed calculation of total path for Excellon Gcode file
modified the way FlatCAM preferences are saved. Now they can be saved as new files with .FlatConfig extension by the user and shared.
added possibility to open the folder where FlatCAM is saving the preferences files

21.01.2019

changed some tooltips
added tooltips in Excellon tool table headers
in Excellon Tool Table the columns are now only selectable by clicking on the header (sorting is done automatically)
if CNCJob from Excellon then hide the CNC tools table in CNCJob Object

20.01.2019

fixed the HPGL code geometry rendering when travel
fixed the message box layout when asking to save the current work
made sure that whenever the HPGL preprocessor is selected the Toolchange is always ON and the MultiDepth is OFF
the HPGL preprocessor entry is not allowed in Excellon Object preprocessor selection combobox as it is only applicable for Geometry
when saving HPGL code it will be saved as a file with extension .plt
the units mentioned in HPGL format are only METRIC therefore if FlatCAM units are in INCH they will be transform to METRIC
the minimum unit in HPGL is 0.025mm therefore the coordinates are rounded to a multiple of 0.025mm
removed the raise statement in do_worker_task() function as this is fatal in conjunction with PyQt5
added a try - except clause for the situations when for a font can't be determined the family and name
moved font parsing to the Geometry Editor: it is done everytime the Text tool is invoked
made sure that the HPGL preprocessor is not populated in the Excellon preprocessors in Preferences as it make no sense (HPGL is useful only for Geometries)

19.01.2019

added initial implementation of HPGL preprocessor
fixed display HPGL code geometry on canvas

11.01.2019

added a status message for font parsing

9.01.2019

added a fix to allow creating of Excellon geometry even when there are points with no tools by skipping those points and warning the user about this in a Tcl message
added a message box asking users if they want to save the project in case that either New Project menu entry is clicked or if Exit menu entry is clicked or if the app is closed from the close button. The message box will be showed only if there are objects in the collection.
modified the first line in the Gcode header to show the FlatCAM version and version_date

8.01.2019

added checkboxes in Preferences -> General -> Global Preferences to switch on/off version check at application startup and also to control if the app will send anonymous statistics about FlatCAM usage to help improve FlatCAM

7.01.2019

added tooltips in Edit->Convert menu
fixed cutting from copper features when doing Gerber isolation with multiple passes

6.01.2019

fixed the Marlin preprocessor detection in GCode header
the version date in GCode header is now the one set in FlatCAMApp.App.version_date
fixed bug in preprocessor files: number of drills is now calculated only for the Excellon objects in toolchange function (only Excellon objects have drills)

5.01.2019

fixed cncjob TclCommand - it used the default values for parameters
fixed the layout in ToolTransform
fixed the initial text in the ToolShell
reactivated the version check in case the release is not BETA; FlatCAMApp.App has now a beta object that when set True the application will show in the Title and help-> About that is Beta (and it disable version checking)
added a new name (mine: for good and/or bad) to the contributors list
fixed the Join function to work on Gerber and Excellon, Gerber and Gerber, Excellon and Excelon combination of objects. The merged property is the solid_geometry and the result is a GeometryObject object.

3.01.2019

initial merge into FlatCAM regular

28.12.2018

changed the workspace drawing from 'gl' to 'agg'. 'gl' has better performance but it messes with the overlapping graphics
removed the initial obj.build_ui() in App.on_editing_finished()

25.12.2018

fixed bugs in Excellon Editor due of PyQt5 port
fixed bug when loading Gerber with follow
fixed bug that when a Gerber was loaded with -follow parameter it could not be isolated external and full
changed multiple status bar messages
changed some assertions to (status error message + return) combo
fixed issues in 32bit installers
added protection against using Excellon joining on different kind of objects
fixed bug in ToolCutout where the Rectangular Cutout used the Type of Gaps from Freeform Cutout
fixed bug that didn't allowed saving SVG file from a Gerber file
modified setup_ubuntu.sh file for PyQt5 packages

23.12.2018

added move (as in Tool Move) capability for CNCJob object and the GCode is updated on each move --> finished both for Gcode loaded and for CNCJob generated in the app
fixed some errors related to DialogOpen widget that I've missed in PyQt5 porting
added a bounds() method for CNCJob class in camlib (perhaps overdone as it worked well with the one inherited)
small changes in Paint Tool - the rest machining is working only partially
added more columns in CNCjob Tool Table showing more info about the present tools
make the columns in CNCJob Tool Table not editable as it has no sense

22.12.2018

fixed issues in Transform Tool regarding the message boxes
fixed more error in Double Sided Tool and added some more information's in ToolTips
added more information's in CutOut Tool ToolTips
updated the tooltips in amost all FlatCAM tools; in Tool Tables added column header ToolTips
fixed NCC rest machining in NCC Tool; added status message and stop object creation if there is no geometry on any tool
fixed version number: now it will made of a number in format main_version.secondary_version/working_version
modified the makefile for windows builds to accommodate both 32bit and 64bit executable generation

21.12.2018

added shortcut "SHIFT + W" for workspace toggle
updated the list of shortcuts
forbid editing for the MultiGeo type of Geometry because the Geometry Editor is not prepared for this
finished a "sort" of rest-machining for Non Copper Clearing Tool but it's time consuming operation
reworked the NCC Tool as it was fundamental wrong - still has issues on the rest machining
added a parameter reset for each run of Paint Tool and NCC Tool

20.12.2018

porting application to PyQt5
adjusted the level of many status bar messages
created new bounds() methods for Excellon and Gerber objects as the one inherited from Geometry failed in conjunction with PyQt5
fixed some small bugs where a string was divided by a float finally casting the result to an integer
removed the 'raise' conditions everywhere I could and make protections against loading files in the wrong place
fixed a "PyCharm stupid paste on the previous tab level even after one free line " in Excellon.bounds()
in Geometry object fixed error in tool_delete regarding deletion while iterating a dict
started to rework the NCC Tool to generate one file only
in Geometry Tool Table added checkboxes for individual plot of tools in case of MultiGeo Geometry
rework of NCC Tool UI
added a automatic selector: if the system is 32bit the OR-tools imports are not done and the OR-tools drill path optimizations are replaced by a default Travelling Salesman drill path optimization
created a Win32 make file to generate a Win32 executable
disabled the Plot column in Geometry Tool Table when the geometry is SingleGeo as it is not needed
solved a issue when doing isolation, if the solid_geometry is not a list will make it a list
added tooltips in the Geometry Tool Table headers explaining each column
added a new Tcl Command: clear. It clears the Tcl Shell of all text and restore it to the original state
fixed Properties Tool area calculation; added status bar messages if there is no object selected show an error and successful showing properties is confirmed in status bar
when Preferences are saved, now the default values are instantly propagated within the application
when a geometry is MultiGeo and all the tools are deleted, it will have no geometry at all therefore all that it's plotted on canvas that used to belong to it has to be deleted and because now it is an empty object we demote it to SingleGeo so it can be edited

19.12.2018

fixed SVG_export for MultiGeo Geometries
fixed DXF_export for MultiGeo Geometries
fixed SingleGeo to MultiGeo conversion plotting bug

18.12.2018

small changes in GeometryObject.plot()
updated the GeometryObject.merge() function and the Join Geometry feature to accommodate the different types of geometries: singlegeo and multigeo type
added Conversion submenu in Edit where I moved the Join features and added the Convert from MultiGeo to SingleGeo type and the reverse
added Copy Tool (on a selection of tools) feature in Geometry Object UI
fixed the bounds() method for the MultiGeo geometry object so the canvas selection is working and also the Properties Tool
fixed Move Tool to support MultiGeo geometry objects moving
added tool edit in Geometry Object Tool Table
added Tool Table context menu in Geometry Object and in Paint Tool
modified some Status Bar messages in Geometry Object

17.12.2018

added support for multiple solid_geometry in a geometry object; each tool can now have it's own geometry. Plot, project save/load are OK.
added support for single GCode file generation from multi-tool PaintTool job
added protection for results of Paint Tool job that do not have geometry at all. An Error will be issued. It can happen if the combination of Paint parameters is not good enough
solved a small bug that didn't allow the Paint Job to be done with lines when the results were geometries not iterable
added protection for the case when trying to run the cncjob Tcl Command on a Geometry object that do not have solid geometry or one that is multi-tool
Paint Tool Table: now it is possible to edit a tool to a new diameter and then edit another tool to the former diameter of the first edited tool
added a new type of warning, [WARNING_NOTCL]
fixed conflict with "space" keyboard shortcut for CNC job

16.12.2018

redone the Options menu; removed the Transfer Options as they were not used
deleted some folders in the project structure that were never used
Paint polygon Single works only for left mouse click allowing mouse panning
added ability to print errors in status bar without raising Tcl Shell
fixed small bug: when doing interiors isolation on a Gerber that don't allow it, no object is created now and an error in the status bar is issued
fixed bug in Paint All for Geometry made from exteriors Gerber isolation
fixed the join geometry: when the geometries has different tools the join will fail with a status bar message (as it should). Allow joining of geometries that have no tool. // Reverted on 18.12.2018
changed the error messages that are simple to the kind that do not open the TCl shell
fixed some issues in Geometry Object
Paint Tool - reworked the UI and made it compatible with the Geometry Object UI
Paint Tool - tool edit functional
added Clear action in the Context menu of the TCl Shell

14.12.2018

fixed typo in setup_ubuntu.sh
minor changes in Excellon Object UI
added Tool Table in Paint Tool
now in Paint Tool and Non Copper Clearing Tool a selection of tools can be deleted (not only one by one)
minor GUI changes (added/corrected tooltips)
optimized vispy startup time from about >6 sec to ~3 seconds
removed vispy text collection starting in plotcanvas as it did nothing // RESTORED 18.12.2018 as it messed the graphical presentation
fixed cncjob TclCommand for the new type of Geometry
make sure that when using the TclCommands, the object names are case insensitive
updated the TCL Shell auto-complete function; now it will index also the names of objects created or loaded in the application
on object removal the name is removed from the Shell auto-complete model

13.12.2018

NEW Geometry Object and CNC Object architecture (3rd attempt) which allow multiple tools for one geometry

fixed issue with cumulative G-code after successive delete/create of a CNCJob on the same geometry (some references were kept after deletion of CNCJob object which kept the deleted tools data and added it to a new one)
fixed plot and export G-code in new format
fixed project save/load in the new format for geometry
added new feature in CNCJob Object UI: since we may have multiple tools per CNCJob object due of having multiple tool in Geometry Object, now there is a Tool Table in CNC Object UI and each tool GCode can be enabled or disabled

12.12.2018

Geometry Tool Table: when the Offset type is 'custom' each tool it's storing the value and it is updated on UI when that tool is selected in UI table
Geometry Tool Table: fixed tool offset conversion when the Offset in Tool Table UI is set to Custom

11.12.2018

cleaned up the generatecncjob() function in FlatCAMObj
created a new function for generating cncjob out of multitool geometry, mtool_generate_cncjob()
cleaned up the generate_from_geometry_2() method in camlib
Geometry Tool Table: new tool added copy all the form fields (data) from the last tool
finished work on generation of a single CNC Job file (therefore a single GCODE file) even for multiple tools in Geo Tool Table
GCode header is added only on saving the file therefore the time generation will be reflected in the file
modified preprocessors to accommodate the new CNC Job file with multiple tools
modified preprocessors so the last X,Y move will be to the toolchange X,Y pos (set in Preferences)
save_project and load_project now work with the new type of multitool geometry and cncjob objects

10.12.2018

added new feature in Geometry Tool Table: if the Offset type in tool table is 'Offset' then a new entry is unhidden and the user can use custom offset
Geometry Tool Table: fixed add new tool with diameter with many decimals
Geometry Tool Table: when editing the tip dia or tip angle for the V Shape tool, the CutZ is automatically calculated

9.12.2018

new Geometry Tool Table has functional unit conversion
when entering a float number in Spindle Speed now there is no error and only the integer part is used, the decimals are discarded
finished the Geometry Tool Table in the form that generates only multiple files
if tool type is V-Shape ('V') then the Cut Z entry is disabled and new 'Tip Dia' and 'Tip Angle' fields are showed. The values entered will calculate the Cut Z parameter

5.12.2018

remade the Geometry Tool Table, before this change each tool could not store it's own set of data in case of multiple tools with same diameter
added a new column in Geo Tool Table where to specify which type of tool to use: C for circular, B for Ball and V for V-shape

4.12.2018

new geometry/excellon object name is now only "new_g"/"new_e" as the type is clear from the category is into (and the associated icon)
always autoselect the first tool in the Geometry Tool table
issue error message if the user is trying to generate CNCJob without a tool selected in Geometry Tool Table
add the whole data from Geometry Object GUI as dict in the geometry tool dict so each tool (file) will have it's own set of data

3.12.2018

Geometry Tool table: delete multiple tools with same diameter = DONE
Geometry Tool table: possibility to cut a path inside or outside or on path = DONE
Geometry Tool table: fixed situation when user tries to add a tool but there is no tool diameter entered
if a geometry is a closed shape then create a Polygon out of it
some fixes in Non Copper Clearing Tool
Geometry Tool table: added option to delete_tool function for delete_all
Geometry Tool table: added ability to delete even the last tool in plugin_table and added an warning if the user try to generate a CNC Job without a tool in tool table
if a geometry is painted inside the Geometry Editor then it will store the tool diameter used for this painting. Only one tool cn be stored (the last one) so if multiple paintings are done with different tools in the same geometry it will store only the last used tool.
if multiple geometries have different tool diameters associated (contain a paint geometry) they aren't allowed to be joined and a message is displayed letting the user know

2.12.2018

started to work on a geometry Tool Table
renamed FlatCAMShell as ToolShell and moved it (and termwidget) to flatcamTools folder
cleaned up the ToolShell by removing the termwidget separate file and added those classes to ToolShell
added autocomplete for TCL Shell - the autocomplete key is 'TAB'
covered some possible exceptions in rotate/skew/mirror functions
Geometry Tool table: add/delete tools = DONE
Geometry Tool table: add multiple tools with same diameter = DONE

1.12.2018

fixed Gerber parser so now the Gerber regions that have D02 operation code just before the end of the region will be processed correctly. Autotrax Dex Gerbers are now loaded
fixed an issue with temporary geo storage "geo" being referenced before assignment
moved all FlatCAM Tools into a single directory

30.11.2018

remade the CutOut Tool. I've put together the former Freeform Cutout tool and the Cutout Object fount in Gerber Object GUI and left only a link in the Gerber Object GUI. This tidy the GUI a bit.
created a Paint Tool and replaced the Paint Area section in Geometry Object GUI with a link to this tool.
fixed bug in former Paint Area and in the new Paint Tool that made the paint method not to be saved in App preferences
solved a bug in Gerber parser: in case that an operation code D? was encountered alone it was not remembered - fixed
fixed bug related to the newly entered toolchange feature for Geometry: it was trying to evaluate toolchange_z as a comma separated value like for toolchange x,y
fixed bug in scaling units in CNC Job which made the unit change between INCH and MM not possible if a CNC Job was present in the project objects

29.11.2018

added checks for using a Z Cut with positive value. The Z Cut parameter has to be negative so if the app will detect a positive value it will automatically convert it to negative
started to implement rest-machining for Non Copper clearing Tool - for now the results are not great
added Toolchange X,Y position parameters and modified the default and manual_toolchange preprocessor file to use them For now they are used only for Excellon objects who do have toolchange events
added Toolchange event selection for Geometry objects; for now it is as before, single tool on each file
remade the GUI for objects and in Preferences to have uniformity
fixed bug: after editing a newly created excellon/geometry object the object UI used to not keep the original settings
fixed some bugs in Tool Add feature of the new Non Copper Clear Tool
added some messages in the Non Copper Clear Tool
added parameters for coordinates no of decimals and for feedrate no of decimals used in the resulting GCODE. They are in EDIT -> Preferences -> CNC Job Options
modified the preprocessors to use the "decimals" parameters

28.11.2018

added different methods of copper clearing (standard, seed, line_based) and "connect", "contour" options found in Paint function
remake of the non-copper clearing tool as a separate tool
modified the "About" menu entry to mention the main contributors to FlatCAM 3000
modified Marlin preprocessor according to modifications made by @redbull0174 user from FlatCAM.org forum
modified Move Tool so it will detect if there is no object to move and issue a message

27.11.2018

fixed bug in isolation with multiple passes
cosmetic changes in Buffer and Paint tool from Geometry Editor
changed the way selection box is working in Geometry Editor; now cumulative selection is done with modifier key (SHIFT or CONTROL) - before it was done by default
changed the default value for CNCJob tooldia to 1mm

25.11.2018

each Tool change the name of the Tools tab to it's name
all open objects are no longer autoselected upon creation. Only on new Geometry/Excellon object creation it will be autoselected

24.11.2018

restored the selection method in Geometry Editor to the original one found in FlatCAM 8.5
minor changes in Clear Copper function
minor changes in some preprocessors
change Join Geometry menu entry to Join Geo/Gerber
added menu entry for Toggle Axis in Menu -> View
added menu entry for Toggle Workspace in Menu -> View
added Bounding box area to the Properties (when metric units, in cm2)
non-copper clearing function optimization
fixed Z_toolchange value in the GCODE header

21.11.2018

not very precise jump to location function
added shortcut key for jump to coordinates (J) and for Tool Transform (T)
some work in shortcut key

19.11.2018

fixed issue with nested comment in preprocessors
fixed issue in Paint All; reverted changes

18.11.2018

renamed FlatCAM 2018 to FlatCAM 3000
added new entries in the Help menu; one will show shortcut list and the other will start a YouTube webpage with a playlist where I will publish future training videos for this version of FlatCAM
if a Gerber region has issues the file will be loaded bypassing the error but there will be a TCL message letting the user know that there are parser errors.

17.11.2018

added Excellon parser support for units defined outside header

12.11.2018

fixed bug in Paint Single Polygon
added spindle speed in laser preprocessor
added Z start move parameter. It controls the height at which the tool travel on the fist move in the job. Leave it blank if you don't need it.

9.11.2018

fixed a reported bug generated by a typo for feedrate_z object in camlib.py. Because of that, the project could not be saved.
fixed a G01 usage (should be G1) in Marlin preprocessor.
changed the position of the Tool Dia entry in the Object UI and in MainGUI
fixed issues in the installer

30.10.2018

fixed a bug in Freeform Cutout Tool - it was missing a change in the name of an object

29.10.2018

added Excellon export menu entry and functionality that can export in fixed format 2:4 LZ INCH (format that Altium can load and it is a more generic format). It will be usefull for those who need FlatCAM to only convert the Excellon to a more useful format and visualize Gerbers. The other Excellon Export menu entry is exporting in units either Metric or INCH depending on the current units in FlatCAM, but it will always use the decimal format which may not be loaded in all cases.
disabled the Selected Tab while in Geometry Editor; the user is not supposed to have access to those functions while in Geometry Editor
added an menu entry in Menu -> File -> Recent Files named Clear Recent files which does exactly that
fixed issue: when a New Project is created but there is a Geometry still in Geometry Editor (or Excellon Editor) not saved, now that geometry is deleted
fixed problem when doing Clear Copper with Cut over 1st point option active. When the shape is not closed then it may cut over copper features. Originally the feature was meant to be used only with isolation geometry which is closed. Fixed

28.10.2018

fixed Excellon Editor shortcut messages; also fixed differences in messages between usage by shortcuts and usage by menu toolbar actions
fixed Excellon Editor bug: it was triggering exceptions when the user selected a tool in tooltable and then tried to add a drill (or array) by clicking on canvas Clicking on canvas by default clear all the used tools, therefore the action could not be done. Fixed.
fixed bug Excellon Editor: when all the drills from a tool are resized, after resize they can't be selected.
Excellon Editor: added ability to delete multiple tools at once by doing multiple selection on the tooltable
Excellon Editor: if there are no more drills to a tool after doing drills resize then delete that tool from the tooltable
Excellon Editor: always select the last tool added to the tooltable
Excellon Editor: added a small canvas context menu for Excellon Editor

27.10.2018

added a Paint tool toolbar icon and added shortcut key 'I' for Paint Tool
fixed unreliable multiple selection in Geometry Editor; some clicks were not registered
added utility geometry for Add Drill Array in Excellon Editor
fixed bug Excellon Editor: drills in drill array start now from the array start point (x, y); previously array start point was used only for calculating the radius
fixed bug Excellon Editor: Measurement Tool was not acting correctly in Exc Editor regarding connect/disconnect of events
in Excellon Editor every time a tool is clicked (except Select which is the default) the focus will return to Selected tab
added protection in Excellon Editor: if there is no tool/drill selected no operation over drills can be performed and a status bar message will be displayed
Excellon Editor: added relevant messages for all actions
fixed bug Excellon Editor: multiple selection with key modifier pressed (CTRL/SHIFT) either by simple click or through selection box is now working
fixed dwell parameter for Excellon in Preferences to be default Off

26.10.2018

when objects are disabled they can't be selected
added Feedrate_z (Plunge) parameter for Geometry Object
fixed bug in units convert for Geometry Tab; added some missing parameters to the conversion list
fixed bug in isolation Geometry when the isolated Gerber was a single Polygon
updated the Paint function in Geometry Editor

25.10.2018

added a verification on project saving to make sure that the project was saved successfully. If not, a message will be displayed in the status bar saying so.

20.10.2018

fixed the SVG import as Gerber. But unfortunately, when there is a ground pour in a imported PCB SVG, the ground pour will be isolated inside instead to be isolated outside like every other feature. That's no way around this. The end result will be thinner features for the ground pour and if one is relying on those thin connections as GND links then it will not work as intended ,they may be broken. Of course one can edit the isolation geometry and delete the isolation for the ground pour.
delete selection shapes on double clicking on object as we may not want to have selection shape while Selected tab is active

19.10.2018

solved some value update bugs in plugin_table in Excellon Editor when editing tools followed by deleting another tool, and then re-adding the just-deleted tool.
added support for chaining blocks in DXF Import
fixed the DXF arc import
added support for a type of Gerber files generated by OrCAD where the Number format is combined with G74 on the same line
in Geometry Editor added the possibility for buffer to use different kinds of corners
added protection against loading an GCODE file as Excellon through drag & drop on canvas or file open dialog
added shortcut key 'B' for buffer operation inside Geometry Editor
added shell message in case the Font used in Text Tool in Geometry editor is not supported. Only Regular, Bold, Italic adn BoldItalic are supported as of yet.
added shortcut key 'T' for Text Tool inside Geometry Editor
added possibility for Drag & Drop on FlatCAM GUI with multiple files at once

18.10.2018

fixed DXF arc import in case of extrusion enabled
added on Geo Editor Toolbar the button for Buffer Geometry; added the possibility to create exterior and interior buffer
fixed a numpy import error

17.10.2018

added Spline support and Ellipse (chord) support in DXF Import: chord might have issues (borrowed from the work of Vasilis Vlachoudis, https://github.com/vlachoudis/bCNC)
added Block support in DXF Import - no support yet for chained blocks (INSERT in block)
support for repasted block insertions

16.10.2018

added persistent toolbar view: the enabled toolbars will be active at the next app startup while those that are not enabled will not be enabled at the next app startup. To enable/disable toolbars right click on the toolbar.

15.10.2018

DXF Export works now also for Exteriors only and Interiors only geometry generated from Gerber Object
when a Geometry is edited, now the interiors and exterior of a Polygon that is part of the Geometry can be selected individually. In practice, if doing full isolation geometry, now both external and internal trace can be selected individually.

13.10.2018

solved issue in CNC Code Editor: it appended text to the previous one even if the CNC Code Editor was closed
added .GBD Gerber extension to the lists
added support for closed polylines/lwpolylines in Import DXF; now PCB patterns found in PDF format can be imported in INKSCAPE and saved as DXF. FlatCAM can import DXF as Gerber and the user now can do isolation on it.

12.10.2018

added zoom in, zoom out and zoom fit buttons on the View toolbar
fixed bug that on Double Sided Tool when a Excellon Alignment is created does not reset the list of Alignment drills
added a message warning the user to add Point coordinates in case the reference used in Double Sided Tool is Point
added new feature: DXF Export for Geometry

10.10.2018

fixed a small bug in Setup Recent Files
small fix in Freeform Cutout Tool regarding objects populating the combo boxes
Excellon object name will reflect the number of edits performed on it

9.10.2018

In Geometry Editor, now Path and Polygon draw mode can be finished not only with shortcut key Enter but also with right click on canvas
fixes regarding of circle linear approximation - final touch
fix for interference between Geo Editor and Excellon Editor
fixed Cut action in Geometry Editor so it can now be done multiple times on the target geometry without need for saving in between.
initial work on DXF import; made the GUI interface and functional structure
added import functions for DXF import
finished DXF Import (no blocks support, no SPLINE support for now)

8.10.2018

completed toggle canvas selection when there is only one object under click position for the case when clicking the object is done while other object is already selected.
added static utility geometry just upon activating an Editor function
changed the way the canvas is showed on FlatCAM startup

7.10.2018

solved mouse click not setting relative measurement origin to zero
solved bug that always added one drill when copying a selection of drills in the EXCELLON EDITOR
solved bug that the number of copied drills in Excellon Editor was not updated in the tool table
work in the Excellon Editor: found useful to change the diameter of one tool to another already in the list; could help for all those tools that are a fraction difference that comes from imperial to mm (or reverse) conversion, to reduce the tool changes - Done
in Excellon Editor, always auto-select the last tool added
in Excellon Editor fixed shortcuts for drill add and drill_array add: they were reversed. Now key 'A' is for array add and key 'D' is for drill add
solved a small bug in Excellon export: even when there were no slots in the file, it always added the tools list that acted as unnecessary toolchanges
after Move action, all objects are deselected

6.10.2018

Added basic support for SVG text in SVG import. Will not work if some letters in a word have different style (italic bold or both)
added toggle selection to the canvas selection if there is only one object under the click position
added support for "repeat" command in Excellon file
added support for Allegro Gerber and Excellon files
Python 3.7 is used again; solved bug where the activity icon was not playing when FlatCAM active

5.10.2018

fixed undesired setting focus to Project Tab when doing the SHIFT + LMB combo (to capture the click coordinates)

4.10.2018

Excellon Editor: finished Add Drill Array - Linear type action
Excellon Editor: finished Add Drill Array - Circular type action
detected bug in shortcuts: Fixed
Excellon Editor: added constrain for adding circular array, if the number of drills multiplied by angle is more than 360 the app will return with an message
solved sorting bug in the Excellon Editor tool table
solved bug in Menu -> Edit -> Sort Origin ; the selection box was not updated after offset
added Excellon Export in Menu -> File -> Export -> Export Excellon
added support to save the slots in the Excellon file in case there were some in the original file
fixed Double Sided Tool for the case of using the box as mirroring reference.

2.10.2018

made slots persistent after edit
bug detected: in Excellon Editor if new tool added diameter is bigger than 10 it mess things up: SOLVED
Excellon Editor: finished Drill Resize action
after an object is deleted from the Project list, if the current tab in notebook is not Project, always focus in the Project Tab (deletion can be done by shortcut key also)
changed the initial view to include the possible enabled workspace guides

1.10.2018

added GUI for Excellon Editor in the Tool Tab
Excellon Editor: created and populated the tool list
Excellon Editor: added possibility to add new tools in the list
Excellon Editor: added possibility to delete a tool (and the drills that it contain) by selecting a row in the tool table and clicking the Delete Tool button
Excellon Editor: added possibility to change the tool diameter in the tool list for existing tool diameters.
Excellon Editor: when selecting a drill, it will highlight the tool in the Tool table
Excellon Editor: optimized single click selection
Excellon Editor: added selection for all drills with same diameter upon tool selection in tool table; fix in tool_edit
Excellon Editor: added constrain to selection by single click, it will select if within a certain area around the drill
Excellon Editor: finished Add Drill action
Excellon Editor: finished Move Drill action
Excellon Editor: finished Copy Drill action
fixed issue: when an object is selected before entering the Editor mode, now the selecting shape is deleted before entry in the Editor (be it Geometry or Excellon).
fixed a few glitches regarding the units change
when an object is deselected on the Plot Area, the notebook will switch to Project Tab
changed the selection behavior for the dragging rectangle selection box in Editor (Geometry, Excellon): by dragging a selection box and selecting is cumulative: it just adds. To remove from selection press key Ctrl (or Shift depending of the setting in the Preferences) and drag the rectangle across the objects you want to deselect.

29.09.2018

optimized the combobox item population in Panelization Tool and in Film Tool
FlatCAM now remember the last path for saving files not only for opening
small fix in GUI
work on Excellon Editor. Excellon editor working functions are: loading an Excellon object into Editor, saving an Excellon object from editor to FlatCAM, selecting drills by left click, selection of drills by dragging rectangle, deletion of drills.
fixed Excellon merge
added more Gcode details (depthperpass parameter in Gcode header) in preprocessors
deleted the Tool informations from header in preprocessors due to Mach3 not liking the lot of square brackets
more corrections in preprocessors

28.09.2018

added a save_defaults() call on App exit from action on Menu -> File -> Exit
solved a small bug in Measurement Tool
disabled right mouse click functions when Measurement Tools is active so the user can do panning and find the destination point easily
added a new button named "Measure" in Measurement Tool that allow easy access to Measurement Tool from within the tool
fixed a bug in Gerber parser that when there was a rectangular aperture used within a region, some artifacts were generated.
some more work on Excellon Editor

27.09.2018

fixed bug when creating a new project, if a previous object was selected on screen, the selection shape survived the creation of a new project
added compatibility with old type of FlatCAM projects
reverted modifications to the way that Excellon geometry was stored to the old way.
added exceptions for Paint functions so the user can know if something failed.
modified confirmation messages to use the color coded messages (error = red, success = green, warning = yellow)
restored activity icon

26.09.2018

disabled selection of objects in Project Tab when in Editor
the Editor Toolbar is hidden in normal mode and it is showed when Editor is activated. I may change this behaviour back.
changed names in classes, functions to prepare for the Excellon editor
fixed bugs in Paint All function
fixed a bug in ParseSVG module in parse_svg_transform(), related to 'scale'
moved all the Editor menu/toolbar creation to FlatCAMUI where they belong
fixed a Gerber parse number issue when Gerber zeros are TZ (keep trailing zeros)
changed the way of how the solid_geometry for Excellon files is stored and plotted. Before everything was put in the same "container". Now, the geometries of drills and slots are organized into dictionaries having as keys the tool diameters and as values list of Shapely objects (polygons)
fix for Excellon plotting for newly created empty Excellon Object
fixed geometry.bounds() in camlib to work with the new format of the Excellon geometry (list of dicts)

24.09.2018

added packages in the Requirements and setup_ubuntu.sh. Tested in Ubuntu and it's OK
added Replace (All) feature in the CNC Code Editor
made CNC Code generation for Excellon to show progress
added information about transforms in the object properties (like skew and how much, if it was mirrored and so on)
made all the transforms threaded and make them show progress in the progress bar
made FlatCAM project saving, threaded.

23.09.2018

added support for "header-less" Excellon files. It seems that Mentor PADS does generate such non-standard Excellon files. The user will have to guess: units (IN/MM), type of zero suppression LZ/TZ (leading zeros or trailing zeros are kept) and Excellon number format(digits and decimals). All of those can be adjusted in Menu -> Edit -> Preferences -> Excellon Object -> Excellon format
fixed svgparse for Path. Now PCB rasted images can traced in Inkscape or PDF's can be converted and then saved as SVG files which can be imported into FlatCAM. This is a convolute way to convert a PDF to Gerber file.

22.09.2018

added Drag & Drop capability. Now the user can drag and drop to FlatCAM GUI interface a file (with the right extension) that can be a FlatCAM project file (.FlatPrj) a Gerber file, an Excellon file, a G-Code file or a SVG file.
made the Move Tool command threaded
added Image import into FlatCAM

21.09.2018

added new information's in the object properties: all used Tool-Table items are included in a new entry in self.options dictionary
modified the preprocessor files so they now include information's about how many drills (or slots) are for each tool. The Gcode will have this information displayed on the message from ToolChange.
removed some log.debug and add new log.debug especially for moments when some process is finished
fixed the utility geometry for Font geometry in Geometry Editor
work on selection in Geometry Editor
added multiple selection key as a Preference in Menu -> Edit -> Preferences It can be either Shift or Ctrl.
fixed bug in Gerber Object -> Copper Clearing.
added more comprehensive tooltips in Non-copper Clearing as advice on how to proceed.
adjusted make_win32.py file so it will work with Python 3.7 (cx_freeze can't copy OpenGL files, so it has to be done manually)

19.09.2018

optimized loading FlatCAM project by double clicking on project file; there is no need to clean up everything by using the function not Thread Safe: on_file_new_project() because there is nothing to clean since FlatCAM just started.
added a workspace delimitation with sizes A3, A4 and landscape or portrait format
The Workspace checkbox in Preferences GUI is doing toggle on the workspace
made the workspace app default state = False
made the workspace to resize when units are changed
disabled automatic defaults save (might create SSD wear)
added an automatic defaults save on FlatCAM application close
made the draw method for the Workspace lines 'agg' so the quality of the FC objects will not be affected
added Area constrain to the Panelization Tool: if the resulting area is too big to fit within constrains, the number of columns and/or rows will be reduced to the maximum that still fits is.
removed the Flip command from Panelization Tools because Flipping (Mirroring) should be done properly with the Transform Tool or using the provided shortcut keys.
made Font parsing threaded so the application will not wait for the font parsing to complete therefore the app start is faster

17.09.2018

fixed Measuring Tool not working when grid is turned OFF
fixed Roland MDX20 preprocessor
added a .GBR extension in the open_gerber filter
added ability to Scale and Offset (for all types of objects) to just press Enter after entering a value in the Entry just like in Tool Transform
added capability in Tool Transform to mirror(flip) around a certain Point. The point coordinates can either be entered by hand or they can be captured by left clicking while pressing key "SHIFT" and then clicking the Add button
added the .ROL extension when saving Machine Code
replaced strings that reference to G-Code from G-Code to CNC Code
added capability to open a project by serving the path/project_name.FlatPrj as a parameter to FlatCAM.py

15.09.2018

removed dwell line generator and included dwell generation in the preprocessor files
added a proposed RML1 Roland_MDX20 preprocessor file.
added a limit of 15mm/sec (900mm/min) to the feedrate and to the feedrate_rapid. Anything faster than this will be capped to 900mm/min regardless what is entered in the program GUI. This is because Roland MDX-20 has a mechanical limit of the speed to 15mm/sec (900mm/min in GUI)

14.09.2018

remade the Double Sided Tool so it now include mirroring of Excellon and Geometry Objects along Gerber. Made adding points easier by adding buttons to GUI that allow adding the coordinates captured by left mouse click + SHIFT key
added a few fixes in code to the other FlatCAM tools regarding reset_fields() function. The issue was present when clicking New Project entry in Menu -> File.
FIXED: fix adding/updating bounding box coords for the mirrored objects in Double side Tool.
FIXED: fix the bounding box values from within FlatCAM objects, upon units change.
fixed issue with running again the constructor of the drawing tools after the tool action was complete, in Geometry Editor
fixed issue with Tool tab not closed after Text Input tool is finished.
fixed issue with TEXT to GEOMETRY tool, the resulting geometry was not scaled depending of current units
fixed case when user is clicking on the canvas to place a Font Geometry without clicking apply button first or the Font Geometry is empty, in Geometry Editor - > Text Input tool
reworked Measuring Tool by adding more information's (START, STOP point coordinates) and remade the strings
added to Double Sided Tool the ability to use as reference box Excellon and Geometry Objects

12.09.2018

fixed Excellon Object class such that Excellon files that have both drills and slots are supported
remade the GUI interface for the Excellon Object in a more compact way; added a column with slots numbers (if any) along the drills numbers so now there is only one tool table for drills and slots.
remade the GUI in Preferences and removed unwanted stretch that was broken the layout.
if for a certain tool, the slots number is zero it will not be displayed
reworked Text to Geometry feature to work in Linux and MacOS
remade the Text to Geometry so font collection process is done once at app start-up improving the performance

09.09.2018

added TEXT ENTRY SUPPORT in Geometry Editor. It will convert strings of True Type Fonts to geometry. The actual dimensions are approximations because font size is in points and not in metric or inch units. For now full support is limited to Windows. In Linux/MacOS only the fonts for which the font name is the same as the font filename are supported. Italic and Bold functions may not work in Linux/MacOS.
solved bug: some Drawing menu entries not having connected functions

28.08.2018

fixed Gerber parser so now G01 "moving" rectangular aperture is supported.
fixed import_svg function; it can import SVG as geometry (solved bug)
fixed import_svg function; it can import SVG as Gerber (it did not work previously)
added menu entry's for SVG import as Gerber and separated import as Geometry

27.08.2018

fixed Gerber parser so now FlatCAM can load Gerber files generated by Mentor Graphics EDA programs.

26.08.2018

added awareness for missing coordinates in Gerber parsing. It will try to use the previous coordinates but if there are not any those lines will be ignored and an Warning will be printed in Tcl Shell.
fixed TCL commands AlignDrillGrid and DrilCncJob
added TCL script file load_and_run support in GUI
made the plugin_table in Excellon to automatically adjust the table height depending on the number of rows such that all the rows will be displayed.
structural changes in the Excellon build_ui()
icon changes and menu compress

23.08.2018

added Excellon routing support
solved a small bug that crippled Excellon slot G85 support when the coordinates are with period.
changed the way selection is done in Geometry Editor; now it should work in all cases (although the method used may be computationally intensive, because sometimes you have to click twice to make selection if you do it too fast)

21.08.2018

added Excellon slots support when using G85 command for generation of the slots file. Inspired from the work of @mgix. Thanks. Routing format support for slots will follow.
minor bug solved: option "Cut over 1st pt" now has same name both in Preferences -> Geometry Options and in Selected tab -> Geomety Object. Solves #3
added option to select Climb or Conventional Milling in Gerber Object options Solves #4
made "Combine passes" option to be saved as an app preference
added Generate Exteriors Geo and Generate Interiors Geo buttons in the Gerber Object properties
added configuration for the number of steps used for Gerber circular aperture linear approximation. The option is in Preferences -> Gerber Options
added configuration for the number of steps used for Gcode circular aperture linear approximation. The option is in Preferences -> CNCjob Options
added configuration for the number of steps used for Geometry circular aperture linear approximation. The option is in Preferences -> Geometry Options. It is used on circles/arcs made in Geometry Editor and for other types of geometries generated in the app.

17.07.2018

added the required packages in Requirements.txt file
added required packages in setup_ubuntu.sh file
added color control over almost all the colors in the application; those settings are in Menu -> Edit -> Preferences -> General Tab
added configuration of which mouse button to be used when panning (MMB or RMB)
fixed bug with missing 'drillz' parameter in function generate_from_excellon_by_tool() (credits for finding it goes to Stefan Smith https://bitbucket.org/stefan064/)
load Factory defaults in Preferences will load the defaults that are used just after first install. Load Defaults option in Preferences will load the User saved Defaults.

03.07.2018

fixed bug in rotate function that didn't update the bounding box of the modified object (rotated) due of not emitting the right signal parameter.
removed the Options tab from the Notebook (the left area where is located also the Project tab). Replaced it with the Preferences Tab launched with Menu -> Edit -> Preferences
when FlatCAM is used under MacOS, multiple selection of shapes in Editor mode is done using SHIFT key instead of CTRL key due of MacOS interpreting Ctrl+LMB_click as a RMB click
when in Editor, clicking not on a shape, reset the index of selected shapes to zero
added a new Tab in the Plot Area named Gcode Editor. It allow the user to edit the Gcode and then Save it or Print it.
added a fix so the 'preamble' Gcode is correctly inserted between the comments header and the actual GCODE
added Find function in G-Code Editor

27.06.2018

the Plot Area tab is changing name to "Editor Area" when the Editor is activated and returns to the "Plot Area" name upon exiting the Editor
made the labels shorter in Transform Tool in anticipation of Options Tab removal from Notebook and replacing it with Preferences
the Excellon Editor is not finished (not even started yet) so the Plot Area title should stay "Plot Area" not change to "Editor Area" when attempting to edit an Excellon file. Solved.
added a header comment block in the generated Gcode with useful information's
fixed issue that did not allow the Nightly's to be run in Windows 7 x64. The reason was an outdated DLL file (freetype.dll) used by Vispy python module.

25.06.2018

"New" menu entry in Menu -> File is renamed to "New Project"
on "New Project" action, all the Tools are reinitialized so the Tools tab will work as expected
fixed issue in Film Tool when generating black film
fixed Measurement Tool acquiring and releasing the mouse/key events
fixed cursor shape is updated on grid_toggle
added some infobar messages to show the user when the Editor was activated and when it was closed (control returned to App).
added thread usage for Film tool; now the App is no longer blocked on film generation and there is a visual clue that the App is working

22.06.2018

added export PNG image functionality and menu entry in Menu -> File -> Export PNG ...
added a command to set focus on canvas inside the mouve move event handler; once the mouse is moved the focus is moved to canvas so the shortcuts work immediatly.
solved a small bug when using the 'C' key to copy name of the selected object to clipboard
fixed millholes() function and isolate() so now it works even when the tool diameter is the same as the hole diameter.

Actually if the passed value to the buffer() function is zero, I artificially add a value of 0.0000001 (FlatCAM has a precision of 6 decimals so I use a tenth of that value as a pseudo "zero") because the value has to be positive. This may have solved for some use cases the user complaints that on clearing the areas of copper there is still copper leftovers.

added shortcut "Shift+G" to toggle the axis presence. Useful when one wants to save a PNG file.
changed color of the grid from 'gray' to 'dimgray'
the selection shape is deleted when the object is deleted
the plot area is now in a TAB.
solved bug that allowed middle button click to create selection
fixed issue with main window geometry restore (hopefully).
made view toolbar to be hidden by default as it is not really needed (we have the functions in menu, zoom is done with mouse wheel, and there is also the canvas context menu that holds the functionality)
remade the GUIElements.FCInput() and made a GUIElements.FCTab()
on visibility plot toogle the selection shape is deleted
made sure that on panning in Geometry editor, the context menu is not displayed
disabled App shortcut keys on entry in Geometry Editor so only the local shortcut keys are working
deleted metric units in canvas context menu
added protection so object deletion can't be done until Geometry Editor session is finished. Solved bug when the shapes on Geometry Editor were not transferred to the New_geometry object yet and the New_Geometry object is deleted. In this case the drawn shapes are left in a intermediary state on canvas.
added selection shape drawing in Geometry Editor preserving the current behavior: click to select, click on canvas clear selection, Ctrl+click add to selection new shape but remove from selection if already selected. Drag LMB from left to right select enclosed shapes, drag LMB from right to left select touching shapes. Now the selection is made based on
added info message to be displayed in infobar, when a object is renamed

20.06.2018

there are two types of mouse drag selection (rectangle selection). If there is a rectangle selection from left to right, the color of the selection rectangle is blue and the selection is "enclosing" - this means that the object to be selected has to be enclosed by the selecting blue rectangle shape. If there is a rectangle selection fro right to left, the color of the selection rectangle is green and the selection is "touching" - this means that it's enough to touch with the selecting green rectangle the object(s) to be selected so they become selected
changed the modifier key required to be pressed when LMB is ckicked over canvas in order to copy to clipboard the coordinates of the click, from CTRL to SHIFT. CTRL will be used for multiple selection.
change the entry names in the canvas context menu
disconnected the app mouse event functions while in geometry editor since the geometry editor has it's own mouse event functions and there was interference between object and geometry items. Exception for the mouse release event so the canvas context menu still work.
solved a bug that did not update the obj.options after a geometry object was edited in geometry editor
solved a bug in the signal that saved the position and dimensions of the application window.
solved a bug in app.on_preferences() that created an error when run in Linux

18.06.2018 Update 1

reverted the 'units' parameter change to 'global_units' due of a bug that did not allow saving of the project
modified the camlib transform (rotate, mirror, scale etc) functions so now they work with Gerber file loaded with 'follow' parameter

18.06.2018

reworked the Properties context menu option to a Tool that displays more informations on the selected object(s)
remade the FlatCAM project extension as .FlatPrj
rearranged the toolbar menu entries to a more properly order
objects can now be selected on canvas, a blue polygon is drawn around when selected
reworked the Tool Move so it will work with the new canvas selection
reworked the Measurement Tool so it will work with the new canvas selection
canvas selection can now be done by dragging left mouse boutton and creating a selection box over the objects
when the objects are overlapped on canvas, the mouse click selection works in a circular way, selecting the first, then the second, then ..., then the last and then again the first and so on.
double click on a object on canvas will open the Selected Tab
each object store the bounding box coordinates in the options dict
the bbox coordinates are updated on the obj options when the object is modified by a transform function (rotate, scale etc)

15.06.2018

the selection marker when moving is now a semitransparent Polygon with a blue border
rectified a small typo in the ToolTip for Excellon Format for Diptrace excellon format; from 4:2 to 5:2
corrected an error that cause no Gcode could be saved

14.06.2018

more work on the contextual menu
added Draw context menu
added a new tool that bring together all the transformations, named Transformation Tool (Rotate, Skew, Scale, Offset, Flip)
added shorcut key 'Q' which toggle the units between IN and MM
remade the Move tool, there is now a selection box to show where the move is done
remade the Measurement tool, there is now a line between the start point of measurement and the end point of the measurement.
renamed most of the system variables that have a global app effect to global_name where name is the parameter (variable)

9.06.2018

reverted to PyQt4. PyQt5 require too much software rewrite
added calculators: units_calculator and V-shape Tool calculator
solved bug in Join Excellon
added right click menu over canvas

6.06.2018 Update

fixed bug: G-Code could not be saved
fixed bug: double clicking a category in Project Tab made the app to crash
remade the bounds() function to work with nested lists of objects as per advice from JP which made the operation less performance taxing.
added shortcut Shift+R that is complement to 'R'
shorcuts 'R' and 'Shift+R' are working now in steps of 90 degrees instead of previous 45 degrees.
added filters in the open ... FlatCAM projects are saved automatically as *.flat, the Gerber files have few categories. So the Excellons and G-Code and SVG.

6.06.2018

remade the transform functions (rotate, flip, skew) so they are now working for joined objects, too
modified the Skew and Rotate comamands: if they are applied over a selection of objects than the origin point will be the center of the biggest bounding box. That allow for perfect sync between the selected objects
started to modify the program so the exceptions are handled correctly
solved bug where a crash occur when ObjCollection.setData didn't return a bool value
work in progress for handling situations when a different file is loaded as another (like loading a Gerber file using Open Excellon commands.
added filters on open_gerber and open_excellon Dialogs. There is still the ability to select All Files but this should reduce the cases when the user is trying to oprn a file from a wrong place.

4.06.2018

finished PyQt4 to PyQt4 port on the Vispy variant (there were some changes compared with the Matplotlib version for which the port was finished some time ago)
added Ctrl+S shortcut for the Geometry Editor. When is activated it will save de geometry ("update") and return to the main App.
modified the Mirror command for the case when multiple objects are selected and we want to mirror all together. In this case they should mirror around a bounding box to fill all.

3.06.2018

removed the current drill path optimizations as they are inefficient
implemented Google OR-tools drill path optimization in 2 flavors; Basic OR-tools TSP algorithm and OR-Tools Metaheuristics Guided Local Path
Move tool is moved to Menu -> Edit under the name Move Object
solved some internal bugs (info command was creating an non-fatal error in PyQt, regarding using QPixMaps outside GUI thread
reworked camlib number parsing (still had some bugs)
working in porting the application from usage of PyQt4 to PyQt4
added TclCommands save_sys and list_sys. save_sys is saving all the system default parameters and list_sys is listing them by the first letters. listsys with no arguments will list all the system parameters.

29.05.2018

modified the labels for the X,Y and Dx,Dy coordinates
modified the menu entries, added more icons
added initial work on a Excellon Editor
modified the behavior of when clicking on canvas the coordinates were copied to cliboard: now it is required to press CTRL key for this to happen, and it will only happen just for left mouse button click
removed the autocopy of the object name on new object creation
remade the Tcl commands drillcncjob and cncjob
added fix so the canvas is focused on the start of the program, therefore the shortcuts work without the need for doing first a click on canvas.

28.05.2018

added total drill count column in Excellon Tool Table which displays the total number of drills
added aliases in panelize Tool (pan and panel should work)
modified generate_milling method which had issues from the Python3 port (it could not sort the tools due of dict to dict comparison no longer possible).
modified the 'default' preprocessor in order to include a space between the value of Xcoord and the following Y
made optional the using of threads for the milling command; by default it is OFF (False) because in the current configuration it creates issues when it is using threads
modified the Panelize function and Tcl command Panelize. It was having issues due to multithreading (kept trying to modify a dictionary in redraw() method)and automatically selecting the last created object (feature introduced by me). I've added a parameter to the app_obj.new_object method, named autoselected (by default it is True) and in the panelize method I initialized it with False. By initializing the plot parameter with False for the temporary objects, I have increased dramatically the generation speed of the panel because now the temporary object are no longer ploted which consumed time.
replaced log.warn() with log.warning() in camlib.py. Reason: deprecated
fixed the issue that the "Defaults" button was having no effect when clicked and Options Combo was in Project Options
fixed issue with Tcl Shell loosing focus after each command, therefore needing to click in the edit line before we type a new command (borrowed from @brainstorm
added a header in the preprocessor files mentioning that the GCODE files were generated by FlatCAM.
modified the number of decimals in some of the line entries to 4.
added an alias for the millholes Tcl Command: 'mill'

27.04.2018

modified the Gerber.scale() function from camlib.py in order to allow loading Gerber files with 'follow' parameter in other units than the current ones
snap_max_entry is disabled when the DRAW toolbar is disabled (previous fix didn't work)
added drill count column in Excellon Tool Table which displays the total number of drills for each tool
added a new menu entry in Menu -> EDIT named "Join Excellon". It will merge a selection of Excellon files into a new Excellon file
added menu stubs for other Excellon based actions
solved bug that was not possible to generate film from joined geometry
improved toggle active/inactive of the object through SPACE key. Now the command works not only for one object but also for a selection

26.05.2018

made conversion to Python3
added Rtree Indexing drill path optimization
added a checkbox in Options Tab -> App Defaults -> Excellon Group named Excellon Optim. Type from which it can be selected the default optimization type: TS stands for Travelling Salesman algorithm and Rtree stands for Rtree Indexing
added a checkbox on the Grid Toolbar that when checked (default status is checked) whatever value entered in the GridX entry will be used instead of the now disabled GridY entry
modified the default behavior on when a line_entry is clicked. Now, on each click on a line_entry, the content is automatically selected.
snap_max_entry is disabled when the DRAW toolbar is disabled

24.05.2015

in Geometry Editor added a initial form of Rotate Geometry command in toolbar
changed the way the geometry is finished if it requires a key: before it was using key 'Space' now it uses 'Enter'
added Shortcut for Rotate Geometry to key 'Space'
after using a tool in Geometry Editor it automatically defaults to 'Select Tool'

23.05.2018

Added key shortcut's in FlatCAMApp and in Geometry Editor.

FlatCAMApp shortcut list: 1 Zoom Fit 2 Zoom Out 3 Zoom In C Copy Obj_Name E Edit Geometry (if selected) G Grid On/Off M Move Obj

N New Geometry R Rotate S Shell Toggle V View Fit X Flip on X_axis Y Flip on Y_axis ~ Show Shortcut List

Space: En(Dis)able Obj Plot Ctrl+A Select All Ctrl+C Copy Obj Ctrl+E Open Excellon File Ctrl+G Open Gerber File Ctrl+M Measurement Tool Ctrl+O Open Project Ctrl+S Save Project As Delete Delete Obj'''

Geometry Editor Key shortcut list: A Add an 'Arc' C Copy Geo Item G Grid Snap On/Off K Corner Snap On/Off M Move Geo Item

N Add an 'Polygon' O Add a 'Circle' P Add a 'Path' R Add an 'Rectangle' S Select Tool Active

~ Show Shortcut List Space: Rotate Geometry Enter: Finish Current Action Escape: Abort Current Action Delete: Delete Obj

22.05.2018

Added Marlin preprocessor
Added a new entry into the Geometry and Excellon Object's UI: Feedrate rapid: the purpose is to set a feedrate for the G0 command that some firmwares like Marlin don't intepret as 'move with highest speed'
FlatCAM was not making the conversion from one type of units to another for a lot of parameters. Corrected that.
Modified the Marlin preprocessor so it will generate the required GCODE.

21.05.2018

added new icons for menu entries
added shortcuts that work on the Project tab but also over Plot. Shorcut list is accesed with shortcut key '~' sau '`'
small GUI modification: on each "New File" command it will switch to the Project Tab regardless on which tab we were.
removed the global shear entries and checkbox as they can be damaging and it will build effect upon effect, which is not good
solved bug in that the Edit -> Shear on X (Y)axis could adjust only in integers. Now the angle can be adjusted in float with 3 decimals.
changed the tile of QInputDialog to a more general one
changed the "follow" Tcl command to the new format
added a new entry in the Menu -> File, to open a Gerber with the follow parameter = True
added a new checkbox in the Gerber Object Selection Tab that when checked it will create a "follow" geometry
added a few lines in Mill Holes Tcl command to check if there are promises and raise an Tcl error if there are any.
started to modify the Export_Svg Tcl command

20.05.2018

changed the interpretation of the axis for the rotate and skew commands. Actually I reversed them to reflect reality.
for the rotate command a positive angle now rotates CW. It was reversed.
added shortcuts (for outside CANVAS; the CANVAS has it's own set of shortcuts) Ctrl+C will copy to clipboard the name of the selected object Ctrl+A will Select All objects "X" key will flip the selected objects on X axis "Y" key will flip the selected objects on Y axis "R" key will rotate CW with a 45 degrees step
changed the layout for the top of th Options page. Added a checkbox and entries for parameters for skew command. When the checkbox is checked it will save (and load at the next startup of the program) the option that at each CNCJob generation (be it from Excellon or Geometry) it will perform the Skew command with the parametrs set in the nearby field boxes (Skew X and Skey Y angles). It is useful in case the CNC router is not perfectly alligned between the X and Y axis
added some protection in case the skew command receive a None parameter
BUG solved: made an UGLY (really UGLY) HACK so now, when there is a panel geometry generated from GUI, the project WILL save. I had to create a copy of the generated panel geometry and delete the original panel geometry. This way there is no complain from JSON module about circular reference.
removed the Save buttons previously added on each Group in Application Defaults. Replaced them with a single Save button that stays always on top of the Options TAB
added settings for defaults for the Grid that are persistent
changed the default view at FlatCAM startup: now the origin is in the center of the screen

19.05.2018

last object that is opened (created) is always automatically selected and the name of the object is automatically copied to clipboard; useful when using the TCL command :)
added new commands in MENU -> EDIT named: "Copy Object" and "Copy Obj as Geom". The first command will duplicate any object (Geometry, Gerber, Excellon). The second command will duplicate the object as a geometry. For example, holes in Excello now are just circles that can be "painted" if one wants it.
added new Tool named ToolFreeformCutout. It does what it says, it will make a board cutout from a "any shape" Gerber or Geometry file
solved bug in the TCL command "drillcncjob" that always used the endz parameter value as the toolchangez parameter value and for the endz value used a default value = 1
added preprocessor name into the TCL command "drillcncjob" parameters
when adding a new geometry the default name is now: "New_Geometry" instead of "New Geometry". TCL commands don't handle the spaces inside the name and require adding quotes.
solved bug in "cncjob" TCL command in which it used multidepth parameter as always True regardless of the argument provided
added a checkbox for Multidepth in the Options Tab -> Application Defaults

18.05.2018

added an "Defaults" button in Excellon Defaults Group; it loads the following configuration (Excellon_format_in 2:4, Excellon_format_mm 3:3, Excellon_zeros LZ)
added Save buttons for each Defaults Group; in the future more parameters will be propagated in the app, for now they are a few
added functions for Skew on X axis and for Skew on Y menu stubs. Now, clicking on those Menu -> Options -> Transform Object menu entries will trigger those functions
added a CheckBox button in the Options Tab -> Application Defaults that control the behaviour of the TCL shell: checking it will make the TCL shell window visible at each start-up, unchecking it the TCL shell window will be hidden until needed
Depth/pass parameter from Geometry Object CNC Job is now in the defaults and it will keep it's value until changed in the Application Defaults.

17.05.2018

added messages box for the Flip commands to show error in case there is no object selected when the command is executed
added field entries in the Options TAB - > Application Defaults for the following newly introduced parameters: excellon_format_upper_in excellon_format_lower_in excellon_format_upper_mm excellon_format_lower_mm

The ones with upper indicate how many digits are allocated for the units and the ones with lower indicate how many digits from coordinates are alocated for the decimals.

[ Eg: Excellon format 2:4 in INCH excellon_format_upper_in = 2 excellon_format_lower_in = 4 where the first 2 digits are for units and the last 4 digits are decimals so from a number like 235589 we will get a coordinate 23.5589 ]

added Radio button in the Options TAB - > Application Defaults for the Excellon_zeros parameter After each change of those parameters the user will have to press "Save defaults" from File menu in order to propagate the new values, or wait for the autosave to kick in (each 20sec). Those parameters can be set in the set_sys TCL command.

15.05.2018

modified SetSys TCL command: now it can change units
modified SetSys TCL command: now it can set new parameters: excellon_format_mm and excellon_format_in. the first one is when the excellon units are MM and the second is for when the excellon units are in INCH. Those parameters can be set with a number between 1 and 5 and it signify how many digits are before coma.
added new GUI command in EDIT -> Select All. It will select all objects on the first mouse click and on the second will deselect all (toggle action)
added new GUI commands in Options -> Transform object. Added Rotate selection, Flip on X axis of the selection and Flip on Y axis of the selection For the Rotate selection command, negative numbers means rotation CCW and positive numbers means rotation CW.
cleaned up a bit the module imports
worked on the excellon parsing for the case of trailing zeros. If there are more than 6digits in the coordinates, in case that there is no period, now the software will identify the issue and attempt to correct it by dividing the coordinate further by 10 for each additional digit over 6. If the number of digits is less than 6 then the software will multiply by 10 the coordinates

14.05.2018

fixed bug in Geometry CNCJob generation that prevented generating the object
added GRBL 1.1 preprocessor and Laser preprocessor (adapted from the work of MARCO A QUEZADA)

13.05.2018

added postprocessing in correct form
added the possibility to select an preprocessor for Excellon Object
added a new preprocessor, manual_toolchange.py. It allows to change the tools and adjust the drill tip to touch the surface manually, always in the X=0, Y=0, Z = toolchangeZ coordinates.
fixed drillcncjob TCL command by adding toolchangeZ parameter
fixed the preprocessor file template 'default.py' in the toolchange command section
after I created a feature that the message in infobar is cleared by moving mouse on canvas, it generated a bug in TCL shell: everytime mouse was moved it will add a space into the TCL read only section. Now this bug is fixed.
added an EndZ parameter for the drillcncjob and cncjob TCL commands: it will specify at what Z value to park the CNC when job ends
the spindle will be turned on after the toolchange and it will be turned off just before the final end move.

Previously:

added GRID based working of FLATCAM
added Set Origin command
added FilmTool, PanelizeTool GUI, MoveTool
and others

24.04.2018

Remade the Measurement Tool: it now ask for the Start point of the measurement and then for the Stop point. After it will display the measurement until we left click again on the canvas and so on. Previously you clicked the start point and reset the X and Y coords displayed and then you moved the mouse pointer wherever you wanted to measure, but moving the mouse from there you lost the measurement.
Added Relative measurement on the main plot
Now both the measuring tool and the relative measurement will work only with the left click of the mouse button because middle mouse click and right mouse click are used for panning
Renamed the tools files starting with Tool so they are grouped (in the future they may have their own folder like for TCL Commands)
Commented some shortcut keys and functions for features that are not present anymore or they are planned to be in the future but unfinished (like buffer tool, paint tool)
minor corrections regarding PEP8 (Pycharm complains about the m)
solved bug in TclCommandsSetSys.py Everytime that the command was executed it complain about the parameter not being in the list (something like this). There was a missing “else:”
when using the command “set_sys excellon_zeros” with parameter in lower case (either ‘l’ or ‘t’) now it is always written in the defaults file as capital letter
solved a bug introduced by me: when apertures macros were detected in Excellon file, FlatCam will complain about missing dictionary key “size”. Now it first check if the aperture is a macro and perform the check for zero value only for apertures with “size” key
solved a bug that didn't allowed FC to detect if Excellon file has leading zeros or trailing zeros
solved a bug that FC was searching for char ‘%’ that signal end of Excellon header even in commented lines (latest versions of Eagle end the commented line with a ‘%’)

============================================ This fork features:

Added buttons in the menu bar for opening of Gerber and Excellon files;
Reduced number of decimals for drill bits to two decimals;
Updated make_win32.py so it will work with cx_freeze 5.0.1
Added capability so FlatCAM can now read Gerber files with traces having zero value (aperture size is zero);
Added Paint All / Seed based Paint functions from the JP's FlatCAM;
Added Excellon move optimization (travelling salesman algorithm) cherry-picked from David Kahler: https://bitbucket.org/dakahler/flatcam
Corrected small typo in DblSidedTool.py
Added the TCL commands in the new format. Picked from FLATCAM master.
Hack to fix the issue with geometry not being updated after a TCL command was executed. Now after each TCL command the plot_all() function is executed and the canvas is refreshed.
Added GUI for panelization TCL command
Added GUI tool for the panelization TCL command: Changed some ToolTips. ============================================

Previously added features by Dennis

"Clear non-copper" feature, supporting multi-tool work.
Groups in Project view.
Pan view by dragging in visualizer window with pressed MMB.
OpenGL-based visualizer.

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