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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Stephano, we should have two tools for arcs, as sometime starting with the center is preferred, but more often start/end then center is better suited.

My $0.02,
Jean-Paul
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> On Oct 20, 2015, at 4:03 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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