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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

My guess is that users would expect to be able to edit it as a rectangle
after they drew it as a rectangle.  Although I'm not opposed to using a
rectangle drawing helper.

On 12/23/2015 9:21 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     >
>     >
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