On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:24:34 -0700 Andrew Poelstra <as...@sfu.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:29:59AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > Because of this bug (it is completely a bug from the user's point of > > view), as you suggested I always make my nominally-square pads > > slightly non-square. Usually by +/- 0.01 mil or +/- 0.02 mil, but > > that might not be enough for good rotation... hopefully nanometer > > conversion will improve that significantly with no extra effort for > > us footprint designers. > > The problem is that the file-format still saves in cmils. (You can > use a text-editor to put the new units in, but then you have problems > with backward-compatibility.) Perhaps after the nanometer conversion has been thoroughly run through its paces in mainline pcb for a while, and we feel it is rock-solid, we can add a Preferences option to save .pcb files with coordinates and lengths in nm rather than cmil. Regards, Colin _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
