Kicad eeschama: Anyone know how to modify/remove frame?

[Joerg]

Still haven't changed CAD programs yet. Kicad eeschema looks best so far
but has (or seems to have?) a serious quirk: A frame that looks, ahem,
less than professional.

Does anyone know how to get rid of it or modify it beyond just filling
in line entries in the page setup? Without re-compiling the whole
software

I've asked in the Kicad Yahoo forum but there isn't much traffic there
anymore and no answer. Same for others who've asked similar questions in
the past, no answers.

 

[Rich Webb]

Still haven't changed CAD programs yet. Kicad eeschema looks best so far
but has (or seems to have?) a serious quirk: A frame that looks, ahem,
less than professional.

Does anyone know how to get rid of it or modify it beyond just filling
in line entries in the page setup? Without re-compiling the whole
software

I've asked in the Kicad Yahoo forum but there isn't much traffic there
anymore and no answer. Same for others who've asked similar questions in
the past, no answers.

The frames do indeed appear to be internal.

As you've probably already found, the text contents are in the $Descr
section at the top of the .sch file and are easy to modify outside of
the schematic editor; e.g., RCS tags such as $Id$ get updated properly
during check-in/check-out. The frame itself, not so much.

(The Yahoo! account I use over there is "axtz4", a throw-away account
that I never quite got around to throwing away.)

 

[Joerg]

I actually use the _old_ original MicroSim Schematics. Hierarchical
plus checkpoint capability... perfect for ASIC's.

PSpice schematics 9.1? I thought they had capture in there or something
compatible. My last PSpice license harkens back to the good old days of
DOS. That's also when OrCad was really good. In fact so good that if I
had my druthers I'd go back to Orcad-SDT. Because it does not crash. But
zoom, print and stuff is somewhat of an issue under Windows.

 

[Joerg]

The frames do indeed appear to be internal.

As you've probably already found, the text contents are in the $Descr
section at the top of the .sch file and are easy to modify outside of
the schematic editor; e.g., RCS tags such as $Id$ get updated properly
during check-in/check-out. The frame itself, not so much.

Internal, that's the problem, it's embedded somewhere. One thing is that
the date format is automatic and European-style. But often I need to
draw without any frame because it'll be entered into some other document
via import. Ok, can be done by spec'ing an oversized frame and then
cut-crop with an image editor but that gets old pretty fast.

Other than that it would be a really nice CAD program.

(The Yahoo! account I use over there is "axtz4", a throw-away account
that I never quite got around to throwing away.)

I use the gmane group which works like a newsgroup. I really don't like
over-sophisticated and thus slow forum portals such as Yahoo.

 

[Nico Coesel]

Still haven't changed CAD programs yet. Kicad eeschema looks best so far
but has (or seems to have?) a serious quirk: A frame that looks, ahem,
less than professional.

Does anyone know how to get rid of it or modify it beyond just filling
in line entries in the page setup? Without re-compiling the whole
software

That wouldn't be a bad route if Kicad compiles out of the box.
WxWidgets (the cross platform framework Kicad is using) compiles
nicely if you have MingW (GCC for Windows) installed.