Re: gEDA-user: pcb crooked traces

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 05:37:48PM -0600, John Doty wrote:
> 
> On Oct 7, 2010, at 5:00 PM, kai-martin knaak wrote:
> 
> > (Are there any plans to make inside pcb metric?) 
> 
> A couple of years ago I suggested making the fundamental units
> nanometers, since that would make decimal fractions of inches
> exactly representable as integers down to 0.01 mil.
> 0.01 mil = 254 nm by definition.
>

Even on a 32-bit system, this would allow 4-meter boards,
unless I'm going crazy. So if anyone has the tenacity to
actually switch the units, this seems like a better idea
than millimeters.

Andrew
 


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