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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Maurice,

 I will work out how to put in an exception to preserve the ${ENV_VAR}. The
current behavior unintentionally breaks the previous kicad behavior.

- Cirilo

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:46 PM, easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Cirilo,
>
> please consider to let users to use also $ENVAR
> with the new 3D refactor $ENVAR variables (ie.e KIPRJMOD) are still
> interpreted but cannot edited
>
> if you want to make a change to a model name still including i.e.
> KIPRJMOD, the pcbnew dialog will reject it, forcing the user to drop $ENVAR
> Error message: Invalid filename
>
> Maurice
>
>
> On 12/04/2016 08.18, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>>   The current behavior of the 3D filename resolver is to use
>> an absolute path in instances where a specified path is
>> not a descendant of a path within the aliased paths list
>> (that is, the filename cannot be shortened using an existing
>> alias). This decision was originally made to avoid ambiguous
>> relative paths such as "../../some/path" (what is it
>> relative to?).  The obvious down side of course is that
>> absolute paths are not portable and this scheme would
>> be a nuisance to people who want to share their work
>> somehow.  Since a number of people seem to be reliant
>> on using the "../" form of relative path to share their work,
>> I'd like to know people's opinions on using such relative
>> paths. If such relative paths are preferred to absolute
>> paths then I can make changes to the code such that
>> the resolver will assign a path relative to the Current
>> Project Directory rather than an absolute path in cases
>> where the file path cannot be shortened via the use of
>> an alias.
>>
>>
>> - Cirilo
>>
>>
>>
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