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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

I could make the unit choice "auto", "mm", "in" where auto = guess at board
center,
but I'm not comfortable with that since "auto" is not a unit and is not
selecting a unit.
Another alternative is to add a button to enable/disable the manual offset
entry but
I have a feeling that will make the GUI look ugly/uglier. I will think
about it more.

- Cirilo


On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:35 AM, easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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