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I shouldn't really be hijacking your thread -- but I hate the 
center->start->end ordering for drawing arcs.
I think it should always be start->end->(center). It's really hard to 
make an arc meet up with other line drawings if I have to calculate and 
click on the center first.

Jacob

On 10/20/2015 1:39 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I already mentioned it in the OS X graphics performance thread…
> Is drawing arcs working as expected on Windows/Linux for pcbnew and footprint editor?
>
> For OS X it doesn’t seem right for me…
> In eeschema I draw by clicking start->end->3rd point (if I remember correctly), in OpenGL canvas it is center->start->end.
> In default canvas it seems that I can click only 2 times (center and some other point) and I only get 90° arcs.
> Similar for footprint editor, but here I additionally get drawing artefacts in form of two concentric arc fragments I don’t get in pcbnew.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
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