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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1 June 2015 at 10:46, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On 31 May 2015 at 23:25, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>>  I suggest we leave the scaling etc until after the stable release; it's
a
>> nightmare.
>>
>>  Historically the scaling allowed users to reuse similar models if they
>> didn't already
>> have a suitable model, for example grow or shrink a THT 0.25W resistor to
>> pretend
>> it's a 0.5/1.0/2.0W type or a small glass-encapsulated diode. I think
with
>> the
>> currently available tools and numerous models there is no need to support
>> this
>> intended behavior and the GUI should only have a Z rotation and a Z
offset;
>> to
>> remove all ambiguity we do need to specify the units of the Z offset.
>
> Changing  the way scaling works is not on the table here. Only a
> user-helper which is to fill in the pre-existing scale UI with values
> that are awkward to work out for a normal user (and laborious to type
> for everyone). That's all I'm proposing - as well as a documentation
> update.
>

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