Re: gEDA-user: Making circles in PCB

[Stephan Boettcher <boettcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vanessa Ezekowitz <vanessaezekowitz@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

There was a request for line trimming and extension.  Maybe that could
be implemented first, and then made to work for arcs/circles as well.
That's how I draw arcs in qcad: I draw a circle, and then trim it.

-- 
Stephan


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