Re: gEDA-user: rat width

[Steven Michalske <smichalske@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 2, 2009, at 8:16 PM, Peter Clifton wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 18:59 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>> I am working on a design with a lot of small parts and pcb's default
>>> rat width is too wide to see what I'm doing.  I don't see a setting
>>> for this.  Where should I look?
>>
>> Add this to $HOME/.pcb/settings :
>>
>> rat-thickness = 3
>>
>> That forces it to be 3 pixels instead of a fixed size.  Values 0..19
>> are pixels; anything larger is PCB units (i.e. 100 means "1 mil").
>
> Yuck, nastiness!
>
> That is just the kind of magic which will end up confusing people in
> years to come.
>
agreed,  I thought we had code that understood units of mil and mm.
Could that be extended to pixels (px)?
	When exporting anything to physical, I would error/warn on px units.

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