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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,  I'll commit the latest patch as is.  You can tweak it as time
goes by.  This will also give other developers and users a chance to
comment on it as well.

Technically there is no reason not to use the full resolution of
eeschema (0.001") when placing the fields rather than using a fixed grid
spacing.  This way the field spacing could be flexible.  Maybe you could
use a fixed distance between each field so that no matter what the text
height is, the spacing will always be constant.  It's something to think
about.

On 12/12/2015 4:17 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Wayne, would you rather I make this change and submit an updated monolithic patch (will take a few days), or would you rather I make a second patch on top of this one to be applied in a second commit?
> 
> JP, the horizontal grid is already flexible, but the autoplacer doesn't do vertical texts. How would that even work? It has to arrange them in a grid somehow. Texts are always placed horizontally with respect to the sheet.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 07:43:47PM +0100, jp charras wrote:
>> Le 12/12/2015 18:26, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
>>> I actually thought a bit about that, and wasn't sure how to reconcile 
>>> "make the labels look nice" with "we like 50mil grids". But then, I went 
>>> off-grid for horizontal _anyway_, so... *shrug*
>>>
>>> It'll take some reworking of the placement code to make the vertical 
>>> grid flexible - not something I'd probably bother doing on my own, but 
>>> if other people want it, let me know and I'll have no problem 
>>> implementing that.
>>>
>>
>> The 50 mils grid is good (read: mandatory) to place pins.
>> So "we like this grid" for connected items (pins, labels, wires ..)
>>
>> But for graphics items a smaller grid is often needed.
>>
>> Fields can be seen as graphics items.
>> I am thinking a smaller grid like 10 mils could be used to place them.
>>
>> (the horizontal grid should be also flexible, especially for vertical texts)
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>>
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