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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:56:02 +0200,
Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > There is a technical reason to not do inch plotting.
> > I recently explained it.

Seems a pretty good reason, actually... sorry I don't ready every thread
on the list.

> > Therefore, until someone give me a *very good reason* why inches are
> > better than mm in Gerber files, I *do not want* a inch option in Gerber
> > plot menu ( or, if this option exists, commit an algo to avoid self
> > intersecting polygons).

Silly question: couldn't we raise the decimal figures on MOIN too, to
avoid the problem or is it already at the max? Or maybe the rounding
creep is of that kind that couldn't by fixed by brute force but only
using 'correctly directed' rounding (i.e. point on the left rounded up,
point on right rounded down or something like that).

Just curious, I don't actually expect that someone could reject a MOMM
gerber file... (OTOH I know people which would reject a metric gencad
file :(

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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