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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Brian Sidebotham wrote:

> I've been routing a board this week, and found the Set Grid Origin a
> god send! The only trouble is that the grid origin doesn't get saved
> with the board.

I devised the grid origin mostly for placing modular connectors and
similar stuff... of course everyone use it however they please.
Just out of curiosity what are you using it for?

> Is the grid origin meant to be saved with the board file? I would have
> thought it should be if it has been moved from 0,0. Otherwise it is
> easy to get off-grid when you continue routing the board when you
> re-open it.

It should be trivial to save it in the board, we just need to allocate
an identifier for it in the save file.

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