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Re: A question for library devs.

 

Hi,

Indeed, this dates back from the beginning of the KLC. The question about
origin had been discussed on both the kicad-lib-committers and the
developers mailing list. Here
<https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg13066.html> is some of the
archives. I hope this helps.

Regards,

Carl

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 3:43 PM, nnn <nnn4000@xxxxx> wrote:

> I can see the rule about origins is on initial commit of kicad library
> convention (may 2014) so the origins are changing with newer commits.
> About changes: some of .pretty libraries are going to be removed because
> some of footprints were sorted to reduce the mess in official libraries.
>
>
> W dniu 01.10.2015 o 16:29, Wayne Stambaugh pisze:
>
> While I was fixing the broken 3D models on the interf_u demo, I noticed
>> that reference point (0,0) for many if not all of the through hole
>> footprints and models is now pin 1 of the footprint instead of the
>> physical center of the footprint.  When did this change take place?  I'm
>> pretty sure reference point used to be the physical center of the
>> footprint because I had to recenter (and rotate some) many of the
>> through hole footprints on the interf_u demo.  I thought that I
>> mentioned this before about announcing library changes like this to a
>> least the developers list.  I don't use through hole components very
>> often but I also don't like being blindsided by unexpected changes.  In
>> the future, when there are policy changes to the library structure or
>> footprint defaults that effect users, please give everyone (this
>> probably should include users) a heads up.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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