gEDA-user: co-ordinates PCB

2009-03-31 Thread richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk
Hi I'm trying to get my head around x,y co-ordinates for foot prints. Looking at some examples I'm confused with polarity for the x, y co-ordinates used in the Element line. If the top LH corner is 0,0 I can understand that the x co-ordinates will be negative, but I cant see the logic with the y

Re: gEDA-user: co-ordinates PCB

2009-03-31 Thread John Luciani
The convention is Y values increase as you go down. (* jcl *) -- You can't create open hardware with closed EDA tools. http://www.luciani.org ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: co-ordinates PCB

2009-03-31 Thread richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk
John Luciani wrote: The convention is Y values increase as you go down. (* jcl *) Sorry I must be getting a bit thick in my old age, are you saying that in the second quandrant, ie where the first quadrant is between 0 degrees and 90 degs, and the second quadrant is between 90 degs and 180

Re: gEDA-user: co-ordinates PCB

2009-03-31 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 14:46 +0100, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Sorry I must be getting a bit thick in my old age, are you saying that in the second quandrant, ie where the first quadrant is between 0 degrees and 90 degs, and the second quadrant is between 90 degs and 180 degs, that