Re: gEDA-user: pcb crooked traces

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 15:25 -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> I think we want to allow negative locations. It would be nice to set parts
> outside of the pcb boundary, for example when initially placing everything.

We limit ourselves to half so that *distances* can fit in a signed
same-size value.  The range of computable distances on a board will
always be twice the range of coordinates.  More if you do 2-D distance,
but we can use floating point there (we'd be doing a sqrt() anyway)



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