Re: gEDA-user: Making circles in PCB

[Vanessa Ezekowitz <vanessaezekowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:57:20 -0800
Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 25, 2010, at 10:45 AM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Everything in pcb supports non-90 arcs, except for the ability to
> > create them.  Someone needs to come up with a friendly way to
> > create/edit arcs that aren't 90 degrees, that's all.
> FWIW QCad has 3 pimary arc creation modes:
> [snip]
> Not that pcb needs to or should follow QCad, just posting the info for
> reference. The "center/radius/end1/end2" method seems pretty natural and if
> PCB did only that it would cover a lot of ground.

The way I as thinking, the user could click once to set the center, make a second click to set the radius and the first endpoint of the arc at the same time, and a third click to set the second endpoint of the arc.  One might also want to support the control key to constrain the arc to regular steps like 22.5 degrees.

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