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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Maurice,

 The X,Y,Z offset associated with the individual IDF component models is
interpreted as whatever the currently selected pcbnew units are (mm, inch)
so the interpretation varies. I need to change the code so that the XYZ
offset is always interpreted as inches.

The board offset is a different matter; I use an approximation of the board
center for (0,0) but it would be much better if the reference point can be
specified so the user can control this.

- Cirilo


On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 6:37 PM, easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Cirilo,
>
> which is the offset problem in IDF exporter?
> At the moment the only issue I've found in the IDF exported file is the
> offset of the pcb when you rotate the board and components inside kicad
> pcbnew before export the IDF file (but I think is a quite improbable
> case)...
>
> thank you
> Maurice
>
>
>
> On 05/08/2015 10.22, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>>   I'd like an opinion on some changes I'd like to make to the VRML
>> and IDF exporters before the stable release.
>>
>> 1. VRML: In "Export VRML" the choices of unit in the output file are
>> Inch, mm, and meter.  In my opinion the 'meter' option is 100%
>> useless and I propose to change this to 100 mil (or equivalently,
>> 0.1 inch). This will push the VRML exporter 1 step closer to being
>> able to export a model which can be reused as a subassembly
>> within KiCad. I don't know the current state of the VRML parser
>> code - but if the parser currently resolves URNs then adding this
>> 0.1 inch option will indeed produce models which can be fed back
>> into KiCad.
>>
>> 2. IDF: My treatment of the 'offset' values in the IDF exporter is
>> wrong; this is a bug although not a bug which is likely to be
>> seen in action. I propose to fix this bug before the release. It might
>> sound silly that I ask for an opinion before doing this task, but
>> the reason I ask is that I really haven't got much free time at all
>> so I wouldn't bother unless others believed that I should fix the bug
>> immediately.
>>
>> - Cirilo
>>
>>
>>
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