Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

[Colin D Bennett <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:55:02 +0200
Gabriel Paubert <paubert@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 08:30:43PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> > These too will be changed as we move away from a strict mm/mil
> > configuration.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what to do about them. Right now I have a giant
> > table of default/max/min for all these units, which totals 12
> > values per unit. Times ten currently-supported units, this is
> > 120 values!
> > 
> > Storing defaults for all of them would require 40 lines...
> > including things like cm, km, cmil, that most users would
> > never use. Then what happens when we add support for new
> > units? For user-defined units?
> 
> Great. As an astronomer, I really need to be able to define
> my PCB in astronomical units and parsecs :-) 

You'll have to wait for 64-bit internal unit storage...
(when metric internals [nm units] is implemented)

Regards,
Colin


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