kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If we called it a "helper" or something, would it be reasonable to have it
just create the lines and arcs at creation time and not keep them linked?

Adam Wolf

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Adam,
>
> The easiest solution would be to create a rectangle drawing tool in the
> GAL canvas.  We already support lines and arcs which should be adequate
> for representing the rectangle in the board file.  The only bad thing
> about this approach is that there is no way of knowing that a given set
> of lines and/or arcs was drawn as a rectangle.  That would require a
> change in the file format which would be a lot more involved.  I suppose
> you could do some math and logical testing to see if any group of lines
> and/or arcs form a rectangle for editing but that could be rather tricky.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 12/21/2015 9:41 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Let's say I wanted to add a rectangle drawer, or even a rounded
> > rectangle drawer, to KiCad, and get it accepted.
> >
> > For me, this would be purely for Edges.
> >
> > Any ideas on how I'd best go about this?
> >
> > Adam Wolf
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> > Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> > More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> Post to     : kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>