Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Add line end to line type dialog

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 02:59 +0200, Armin Faltl wrote:
> Is it correct, that round linestyle is default because of its superior
> mechanical/thermal properties? - I definitely read this for pads and
> it's easy to imagine, that a corner more easily delaminates than a round
> edge. In the light of this, a "small bend" corner style would be cool ;-)

Round-ended lines with the same end-coordinate make a neat join at any
angle. Almost all (all?) PCB programs I know of use rounded end line
primitives.

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Peter Clifton

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