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Re: What happened to the dxf plotter???

 

I wonder if theres a bug. It literally takes 5 minutes to run a DXF
plot of the "pic programmer" demo kicad has. Gebers are instant.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio
<l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tried to plot a mechanical layout and it spit out the *outline* of all
> the segments; the segment are merged too.
>
> Also the circles are not circles but approximated by segments.
>
> ABSOLUTELY worthless for any mechanical work. Can't snap on a center,
> midlines are not there and so on.
>
> WHY did you change it that way? The line mode exporter I wrote was done
> in that way to be used for mechanical reference, not to give the outlines
> of the drawings.
>
> Arc were arc, lines were lines, circles stay as circle. Line thickness
> in DXF is substantially not useful (and solid/sketch mode was done for
> that purpose, anyway).
>
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
> Logos Srl
>
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