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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm working on it. Since it's useful to have a given reference point
as well I'm adding a few more boxes to the VRML and IDF GUIs.
These are all pretty small changes; the current behavior is to
guess at an appropriate reference point which is somewhere
near the center of the board, but a few users have asked for
control of the reference point.

I'll ask on the user list before making similar changes in the
future.  Part of the problem is that I rarely get any feedback
from users so I have no idea if they even find some of these
features useful. I know for IDF there are a few users who
depend on it but aren't on the user list.

- Cirilo


On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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