Re: gEDA-user: poll: How do you geda?

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
>>    That would be *fantastic*.  It'd also be nice (though this is 
>> somewhat pie-in-the-sky) to have a layer of abstraction between the user 
>> coordinate system and the internal coordinate system.  Say, allow the 
>> user to enter a translation factor (like "* 2.54, * 2.54") by which any 
>> coordinates entered would be scaled before being applied.
> 
> I suppose I could let you type units after it:
> 
>   :1.5in 4.5mm Paste()
> 
> or relative to the mark:
> 
>   :+200mil +400mil Paste()
> 
> How would that work out?

   Hmm yes, that'd do the trick.  And I really like the relative 
coordinate idea.  I use that quite a bit in AutoCAD, to great advantage.

   (is there a Move() function?)

           -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL


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