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I Cirilo,

I tested the release 6091, and I noticed that there is the new Grid 
reference point, which is a nice feature.

It would be possible to display in the exporting dialog, instead of 'X 
ref: 0, Y ref: 0' the actual base point of the board?

In this way it would be compatible with old IDF export...

I mean if the user wants to place the IDF pcb at X=0, Y=0 he has only to 
put 0 on the X ref and Y ref fields; if not the IDF pcb will be exported 
as in previous versions to the center of the pcb coordinates in kicad.

I know it would be possible to insert the mid value of the board, but it 
should be calculate manually, getting values from the pcb edges of the 
board.
Putting in the dialog fields as default the the center of the pcb 
coordinates in kicad will avoid that operation and do not change the way 
it was exported in previous versions.

I'm asking that because in this way kicad StepUp chain will keep working 
as in previous versions...

I mean I can change myself the value of the pcb IDF position, but this 
would be done discriminating which version of pcbnew is used... before 
6091 or after.

thank you
Maurice

On 13/08/2015 03.10, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> The attached patch implements the following changes:
>
> 1. Restores a "Meter" output option to the VRML export
>
> 2. Adds a "Grid Reference Point" to the VRML export; this
> allows a user to specify the (X,Y) coordinate which will be
> the origin point on the output. Previous behavior was to
> guess a point at the center of the board, but a user-specified
> value is more useful and was planned though never implemented.
>
> 3. Adds a "Grid Reference Point" to the IDF export; this
> is similar in purpose to the corresponding VRML export feature.
>
>  From my perspective the addition of the Grid Reference Point
> is the last minor improvement to the VRML and IDF export
> code. Except for bug fixes I have no intention of making any
> further changes to those export codes until after the post-
> release 3D refactoring.
>
> Despite the size of the patch, the changes are minor. The bulk
> of the patch is due to wxFormBuilder's autogenerated code.
>
> - Cirilo
>
>
>
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