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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds good, Wayne. Currently I am in fact using the full resolution for 
placement, unless the option to round to 50 mils is enabled. I'm working 
on a patch to make the vertical spacing flexible, at the moment, so 
should have that ready soon - I'll submit it as an incremental patch.

Thanks
Chris

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:39:25AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 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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