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Re: Drawing arcs broken in pcbnew and footprint editor?

 

What do you mean by two different tools?

2015-10-20 18:50 GMT+02:00 Stefano Rossi <chimera.stefano@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Why not have it as two different tools? I think altium has it like that.
>
> On Oct 20, 2015 02:36, "tiger12506" <tiger12506@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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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