gEDA-user: rotatable curvy lines in pcb

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter TB Brett wrote:
>> On 11/13/09, Gabriel Paubert <paubert@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> IMO if PCB would fully support such complicated curves, it would
>> better support something general like beziers; it would not be much
>> harder, but more useful.
> 
> I agree -- Bezier splines are much more useful and flexible than ellipses,
> and as an added bonus it's possible to use them to approximate an ellipse
> closely.

What if a plugin created line segments to approximate ellipses and splines?
Then you could rotate to your heart's content.  The file size wouldn't
have to explode,  only increase linearly with desired fineness of line-step-size.

John
-- 
Ecosensory   Austin TX


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