Re: [Kicad-developers] fp_arc confusion

On 2017-06-27 06:18 PM, hauptmech wrote: I suspect it will come up about as often as it has (so once in 5 years?). Perhaps you could a couple lines of documentation for fp_arc in the file formats pdf so the next person that encounters this has a chance to recognize the error? It was

Re: [Kicad-developers] fp_arc confusion

or use boost::variant and switch to std::variant in the future? On 28 June 2017 at 00:18, hauptmech wrote: > The tokens for circles are fine. > > I suspect it will come up about as often as it has (so once in 5 years?). > > Perhaps you could a couple lines of documentation

Re: [Kicad-developers] fp_arc confusion

The tokens for circles are fine. I suspect it will come up about as often as it has (so once in 5 years?). Perhaps you could a couple lines of documentation for fp_arc in the file formats pdf so the next person that encounters this has a chance to recognize the error? It would have saved me a

Re: [Kicad-developers] fp_arc confusion

The tokens in the file format match the member names of the DRAWSEGMENT object so I see how this could be confusing for arcs and circles. Changing the "start" token to "center" is not a can of worms that I want to open. On 6/27/2017 8:45 AM, hauptmech wrote: > Just to clarify, I'm talking about

Re: [Kicad-developers] fp_arc confusion

Just to clarify, I'm talking about the file format not the internal implementation. The file_formats documentation has the old format using 'center' and 'start' for circles and 'start' and 'end' for arcs (which go from a start point to and end point as the terminology suggests). All good and

Re: [Kicad-developers] fp_arc confusion

It's not an error. Arcs are part of the DRAWSEGMENT object which encapsulates line segments, arcs, etc. The start coordinate (m_start member) is the center point for arcs and circles. It is documented as such in the KiCad source. wxPoint m_Start; ///< Line start point or Circle and

[Kicad-developers] fp_arc confusion

In the module s-expressions, what is the rationale for having arc center labeled 'start' and having the arc starting point labeled 'end'? This bit me as I was writing an Allegro footprint extractor to kicad and got confused why my start,end,angle arcs were not displaying correctly. Assuming