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Re: What happened to the dxf plotter???

 

Did you look at the code?, may be it was because some sort of refactor
to reunify code (just guessing).

I’m not very familiar with that part.

Best,  

Miguel Ángel Ajo


On Friday, 27 de February de 2015 at 10:24, LordBlick wrote:

> In response to a message written on 27.02.2015, 09:28, from Lorenzo Marcantonio:
> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 09:20:03AM +0100, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 07:51:34PM -0500, Mark Roszko wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > > >  
> > >  
> > >  
> >  
> >  
> > The long processing time could be due of that huge polygon merging
> > operation. However that's not the problem; and for a plot that could be even
> > acceptable. It's the final result that's not suitable for mechanical work.
> >  
>  
> In my opinion, DXF plot should have some checkbox option „milling contour” for
> present behavior which unchecked orders for past one. Sometimes treatment tracks
> as tiny lines also gives some useful information in precise orientation
> mechanical work.
>  
>  
> --  
> Best Regards,
> LordBlick
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