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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops!  To be able to save to the new file format you must add
-DUSE_PCBNEW_SEXPR_FILE_FORMAT=ON and -DUSE_PCBNEW_NANOMETRES=ON when
invoking CMake in order to build the new code.

On 4/7/2012 2:09 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> It took long than I anticipated (doesn't always?) but I just committed
> the code to allow saving board files to the new s-expression based file
> format.  I would like as many folks as possible to save their favorite
> board file using File->Save As to the new format and take a look at the
> result.  My goal is to get the final file format nailed down as quickly
> as possible.  There are few caveats:
> 
> * I still have to convert angles to degrees from the current tenths of
> degrees so please ignore the fact that 270° is saved as 2700°.  This fix
> is coming soon.
> 
> * The lead developers have decided to drop support for the old segment
> filled zones (SEGZONES) which have not been used in quite some time.  I
> will be adding a dialog warning the user that they will need to refill
> their zones using the current polygon filling.  I doubt this will effect
> very many users but I could be wrong.
> 
> * I rearranged the object ordering slightly compared to the current file
> format.  I moved the graphic items (items with no net connection) before
> the modules.  This way all of the net connectable objects (modules,
> traces, zones, etc.) will be grouped together.
> 
> Please take some time to look over the new format.  If you find a token
> (key word) that is not clear, let me know so we can choose names that
> are as human readable as possible.  Please keep in mind that the file
> size is going to increase dramatically over the current format so try to
> keep names as brief as possible while still maintaining readability.
> Also, if you find any indentation or other formatting errors, let me
> know so I can fix it.  I will be working on reading the new file format
> over the next few days (weeks?) so I would like to wrap up the file
> format definition in a reasonable amount of time.  Thanks in advance for
> you help.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> 
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