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[jean-pierre charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 09/04/2012 17:02, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
> On 4/9/2012 6:28 AM, jean-pierre charras wrote:
> > > On 8/04/2012 8:23 p.m., Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
> > > > On 04/08/2012 11:38 AM, lajos kamocsay wrote:
> > > > > Hi Wayne-
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > The new file format looks awesome. Very simple and readable.
> > > > >
> > > > > Would it be possible to standardize the transformation data? Currently
> > > > > there seems to be a couple different formats, some examples:
> > > > >
> > > > >    (draw line (pts xy(76.581 47.9425) xy(77.724 47.9425)) (layer 21)
> > > > > (width 0.127))
> > > > >
> > > > >    (size 1.016 1.651)
> > > > >
> > > > >    (at -1.524 0)
> > > > >
> > > > >    (at (xyz 0 0 0))
> > > > >    (scale (xyz 0.17 0.16 0.16))
> > > > >    (rotate (xyz 0 0 0))
> >
> > Thanks, Wayne for your work.
> > Here is my first thoughts
> >
> > (layer 21)
> >
> > uses an internal pcbnew value to identify a layer.
> > I am thinking something like
> >
> > (layer SILKSCREEN_FRONT)
> >
> > is better.
>
> JP,
>
> Thanks for looking at this.  I agree that the layer number is not
> readable.  Do we have any code in place to select the layer number by
> the description?  If not, I'll have to add that in order to load the file.

No code to do that.

> > Also I am thinking inside the brd file, a field giving current units is
> > good:
> > something like (unit millimeter)
>
> Either that or a comment that the units used within the file are in
> millimeters.  I don't think the design goal was to support different
> units in the file itself unless I missed something.
>
> Wayne

Could be just a comment.


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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS