Re: gEDA-user: Script for converting mm to hundredths of thou

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:15:09 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:

>> From my memory, DJ posted a message about that file format extension
>> long time ago, and I think I have seen a PCB footprint file containing
>> nm units. But I was not able to verify this with a short inspection of
>> the PCB manual.
> 
> It works, for mm, um, in, and mil suffixes on any number:
> 
> {FLOATINGMM}		{	return parse_number(3937.0079); } 
{FLOATINGUM}		{	return
> parse_number(3.9370079); } {FLOATINGIN}		{	return
> parse_number(100000.0); } {FLOATINGMIL}		{	return 
parse_number(100.0); }
> {DECIMAL}		{	return parse_number(1.0); }

Can't find anything about this in the docs.
Not in http://pcb.gpleda.org/pcb-cvs/pcb.html 
and not in http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/land_patterns_20070818.pdf, either.

How is this supposed to be used? 
Can you give an example?

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