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Le 17/09/2013 19:43, Lorenzo Marcantonio a écrit :
> I remember last time I did a board the track cleanup function
> a) merged consecutive parallel track segments and
> b) removed zero length segments
> 
> also *way* more time ago it deleted 'floating' tracks; I agree that's
> not desiderable since kills tuning stubs and some kind of guard loops.
> 
> However the 'track merge' behaviour was very useful (especially due to
> the 'limitation' of the drag track tool). Zero length segment also pop
> up quite often (example: drag this
> 
> ----
>     \
>      ----
> 
> to this (typical cleanup operation)
> 
> ----0----
> 
> I think the desired behaviour for the cleanup function is to obtain
> a single segment from the three above. 
> 
> What is the design decision for not doing so anymore? in that case, what
> is meant with the merge option in the dialog?
> 

Cleanup function works for me, 0 length segments are removed and
collinear segment are merged.


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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS