Re: gEDA-user: Bug in 'FreeRotateBuffer()'? (WAS: Re: Line Thickness in Imported DXF Files; Rotating by Arbitrary Angle; UTF-8)

[Colin D Bennett <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:24:34 -0700
Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:29:59AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > Because of this bug (it is completely a bug from the user's point of
> > view), as you suggested I always make my nominally-square pads
> > slightly non-square.  Usually by +/- 0.01 mil or +/- 0.02 mil, but
> > that might not be enough for good rotation... hopefully nanometer
> > conversion will improve that significantly with no extra effort for
> > us footprint designers.
> 
> The problem is that the file-format still saves in cmils. (You can
> use a text-editor to put the new units in, but then you have problems
> with backward-compatibility.)

Perhaps after the nanometer conversion has been thoroughly run through
its paces in mainline pcb for a while, and we feel it is rock-solid, we
can add a Preferences option to save .pcb files with coordinates and
lengths in nm rather than cmil.

Regards,
Colin


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