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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo_bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: Vesa Solonen <vesa.solonen@xxxxxxxx>
> To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 8:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] underlay for reconstructing boards
> 
> 03/08/14, 03:09, Cirilo Bernardo kirjoitti:
> 
>>  Any comments/suggestions/objections?
> 
> I'd really like to see this materialize. I do some restoration of old,
> sometimes even historically interesting equipment.
> 
> There has been some attempts to it with even more functionality than
> just underlay. Please review [1] and [2].
> 
> Two layer underlay would probably help as then the components could be
> seen as well. I have a feeling that using OpenGL rendering anything
> needed will be possible. Loading the image and stretching it to size
> (with corner grip points / coordinates) would be most convenient. That
> would allow almost any photo to be used as no aspect ratio or (flat)
> perspective distortion would get in the way. Most of the low cost
> equipment can not give any strict guarantees of the pixel size anyway.
> 
> -Vesa
> 
> 
> [1] https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg07628.html
> 
> [2] https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg07632.html
> 



Thanks Vesa,  I'll have a look through. At the moment I'm thinking
as minimal a system as possible. I had thought about items like
automatic scaling/rotation and feature recognition, but that's
probably best done in a stand-alone app. I'll consider a 2-layer
underlay.

- Cirilo