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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cirilo,

I guess your assumption about meters units in VRML export being useless
was not correct.  I see no harm in adding meters back to the list of
export units.  Maybe we need to start asking the user's group before we
decide something is useless or not.  When you get a chance, would you
please add meters back to the VRML export dialog?

Thanks,

Wayne

On 8/11/2015 4:05 AM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> I got this on the user list:
> 
> =====
> Hello,
> I've just discovered that VRML export from PCBnew cannot export in
> meter units anymore.
> I do conversion from VRML to STEP and when VRML is in mm (only option
> in metric measures) my model gets 1000 times bigger then it was
> expected.
> I wonder if it's possible to restore export to VRML in meter units?
> 
> -----
> Regards,
> Gennady
> mob. +7 985 8181210
> =====
> 
> Of course that reminds me of this:
> 
> https://xkcd.com/1172/
> 
> So - I can add a button so that there is a 'm' option again - any
> objections?
> In the meantime I'll also suggest that the user make use of the better
> options for communicating MCAD data (IDF and Maurice's StepUp).
> 
> - Cirilo
> 
> 
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