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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Bernhard,

Have a look at the video [1]. The first part is the legacy canvas (90
degrees arcs), the second is recorded with the GAL canvas enabled.

Regards,
Orson

1. https://orson.net.pl/pub/out.ogv

On 10/21/2015 04:50 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> Hi Orson,
> 
> can you explain how it should work in default canvas?
> 
> OK, I can get some arc to show up, but this is at least very different from how to do it in eeschema (and I thought it should be the same in eeschema and default canvas?):
> In eeschema I can create a half-circle with 3 clicks.
> I did not find out how to do that in pcbnew - apart from creating some (random) arc with the mouse and then tweaking it via the edit menu the way it should be.
> If that is how it should be, fine for me… :)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
>> On 21 Oct 2015, at 07:17, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bernhard,
>>
>> This is how it works in the legacy canvas, nothing wrong with OSX. We
>> have simply done it in a different way in the GAL canvas.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Orson
>>
>> On 10/21/2015 04:09 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> nice discussion, but could anybody please just try if drawing arcs on Windows/Linux is working as expected (if yes, how?)?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bernhard
>>>
>>>> On 20 Oct 2015, at 07:39, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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