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[Ben Kempke <bpkempke@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1 from me for adding back imperial Gerber support. There was a recent
discussion regarding this in the following ticket. A small patch is
included as well to add the option for imperial output into the UI.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1475730
On Aug 4, 2015 2:31 AM, "Lorenzo Marcantonio" <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx');>> wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 05:38:26 +0200,
> Chris Pavlina wrote:
> >
> > pcbnew used to be able to plot Gerbers in imperial units. What happened
> > to that? Some (particularly older and non-Asian) board houses still
> > expect those... Is there any reason they were removed, or did they just
> > "fall out"? And can they be put back in?
>
> Since the new plotting infrastructure the gerber plotter already
> supported both units; the IN was simply the compatibility default and it
> only needed an UI option to be bound.
>
> If someone changed the default without adding a radio button or
> something then blame to him:P
>
> AFAIK there would be no technical reason to not do inch plotting...
>
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
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