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Re: New Pcbnew file format.

 

On 4/9/2012 9:43 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> Wayne and all,
> 
> 
> I feel better now about PCBNEW loading a BOARD with USE_PCBNEW_NANOMETRES defined after
> some work I did this weekend.

Dick,

Great work!  Thanks for fixing this so we can keep the new file format
compiled in and still use Pcbnew without having to build a separate
version with nanometers disabled.  Maybe we can get this fairly well
tested over the next few weeks and make it the default build.

Thanks again,

Wayne

> 
> I was a little nervous about that.  It is still slow to load, I think this has to do with
> zone calculations being done in the higher resolutions, hopefully Jean-Pierre can help
> with that.
> 
> 
> To see Wayne's marvelous work, you can now load, then immediately save using Wayne's
> alternative file type in the save dialog window.  Then check out the new file in a text
> editor.
> 
> 
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