On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 06:31:33PM +0800, Steven Michalske wrote: > > If so... Guys change the converters and have at your hearts content. > It should be a 2 hour patch. >
Then we have file-format compatibility to deal with, and I'm sure there are weird cases that implicitly depend on the base unit (which should be rooted out at some point anyway, I know). For file-format compatibility, setting the scale-factor to 254 if none is specified, should do the trick. > Now for conversion errors, are you really seeing errors in your metric PCBs? > Maybe not, but we -do- see the cursor position given as 8.0000, 7.9999 instead of whole numbers, and these long strings overlap the GUI sometimes (I put a patch on the tracker about this when I first got here.) Hard to read, and irritating. > As far as I am concirned the internal unit is meaningless provided it > is fine enough. > Yes, but millimeters cannot be expressed as a whole number of mils. Mils, however, can be expressed as a whole number of nanometers. So there's an important distinction. > ... > > BTW, I'd vote for 1 unit, and a scale value. That is if you are > making a 10 meter antenna, Then you set the PCB's scale to 0.1mm. > +1 Andrew _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user