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["Alain M." <alainm@...>]

Dick Hollenbeck escreveu:
> This whole concept seems a bit awkward to me for pcbnew. I would have 
> added this functionality to the gerber viewer and not to pcbnew. If the 
> gerber viewer had this functionality along with the ability to save to 
> panelized gerbers, 

IN fact it is a *very* nice thing. I even made a program to do exactly 
that for TangoPcb (in normal mode, component names were changed).

Why is it nice? because when you panelize, the manufacturer also asks to 
add an extra blank area on top and bottom, plus a guide-hole, plus some 
alignment things, a unified drilling is also desirable, etc...

In Kicad this is very easy and it was one of the very first things that 
I tested before adopting Kicad. So, me too, I am hoping that this get 
fixed ;)

Thanks for all,
Alain