On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 14:57 -0800, Dave N6NZ wrote: > On Feb 25, 2010, at 10:45 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > > > Everything in pcb supports non-90 arcs, except for the ability to > > create them. Someone needs to come up with a friendly way to > > create/edit arcs that aren't 90 degrees, that's all. > FWIW QCad has 3 pimary arc creation modes: > 1. click1 sets center, click2 sets radius, click3 sets end point 1, click4 > sets end point 2 > 2. click1 sets endpoint 1, click2 sets a point on the arc, click3 sets end > point 2 > 3. click 1 selects a point of tangency on a line, radius set by dialog, click > 2 sets end point 2 > > One mode of elliptical arc creation: > click for center, click for axis 1/radius 1, click for axis2/radius 2, click > for end point 1, click for end point 2. > > Not that pcb needs to or should follow QCad, just posting the info for > reference. The "center/radius/end1/end2" method seems pretty natural and if > PCB did only that it would cover a lot of ground. > > -dave
I think we had that discussion (how we may do it), see that thread: http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Apr-2009/msg00267.html _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user