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Re: Arc bounding box

 

True, I would like to remove the center point due to the same reason. I
am just not sure if there is other code relying on the current
behaviour, or if it was intentional.

Regards,
Orson

On 09/02/2015 08:43 PM, Marcos Chaparro wrote:
> IMHO, when it comes to select an arc shape I'd prefer to don't have to
> include the center. Some pcb outlines have slight curves with large radious
> and in order to include the arc in the selection I have to select a huge
> area that includes that arc center. The center could be a meter away from
> the actual arc, so it gets unpractical.
> 
> Marcos
> 
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:05 PM, LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> In response to a message written on 02.09.2015, 18:54, from Maciej
>> Sumiński:
>>
>>> On 09/02/2015 06:47 PM, LordBlick wrote:
>>>
>>>> In response to a message written on 02.09.2015, 18:40, from Maciej
>>>>
>>> My bad, I meant 180° as the upper limit for considering the center point
>>> - thank you for the correction. Just to be clear: I am speaking about
>>> angle created by the origin, center and the end of an arc.
>>>
>> That is not so much difference, usually canvases takes start/end angle as
>> functions arg.
>> https://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man2/xhtml/gluPartialDisk.xml
>> http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Paths.html#cairo-arc
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>> LordBlick
>>
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