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

"Kicad" ??

Fits right in with your "state of the art" medical electronic standards ;-)

...Jim Thompson

So what's the alternative? Capture?

I've kicked the tired a bit. I creates nice hierarchical sheets, has a rich set of library edit features and best of all a converter for existing libraries. That converter isn't perfect but would save a ton of work.

In medical and other strongly regulated markets the issue is not the kind of CAD you use, it's the completeness of the design history file etc. In the same way that FDA or FAA never cared about what brand of vellum pad you used.

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

...Jim Thompson

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.)

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.

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.

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.

They have Capture now, unless you insist.

...Jim Thompson

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.

If the program is available in source form it is just a matter of finding the code and modifying it. If you are sufficiently interested.

...but "Who will bell the cat?"

I can't believe Joerg is the first KiCAD user to groan about this. It seems like an apt Feature Request for the KiCAD Developers' Forum.