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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cirilo,

Since you proposal is refining an existing feature, go ahead and make
the changes.  We are still wrestling with some segfault bugs so until we
get those resolved, I am fine with cleaning up existing features.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 8/5/2015 4:22 AM, 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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