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Re: [PATCH] Measurement tool for GAL

 

I agree that presistent rulers would be nice, but saving into the
files will take a format bump. I opened an issue for it for people to
put their comments on:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1676814

Perhaps a ruler graticule around the preview window would work?
Something like the Inkscape rulers? It would be useful in Pcbnew too.

Might take a bit of fiddling to get a neat implementation, but it
would avoid having to mandate extra rulers in all footprints (which,
if supported, could still be used in certain useful cases).

As an aside, can bug reporters/feature requesters /please/ not just
chuck extra requests into existing bugs or issues. When the main issue
gets closed first, your comment, no matter how insightful, will be
probably be ignored forever. Open a new issue and put all the details
you can in that. Add a link to/from the original if that will help.
It's a waste of everyone's time to pick out random comments from
semi-related issues into their own issues.

Cheers,

John

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 28.03.2017 09:41, Andrey Kuznetsov wrote:
>
>> It would be nice if the ruler could be a manipulable object that can be
>> saved, locked, have multiple rulers on screen. It won't be output to
>> gerbers, for kicad viewing only.
>
> I wonder if it would make sense to have dimensions in the footprint (and
> ask for them in the library policy). These wouldn't be imported into the
> PCB, but make the preview more understandable.
>
>    Simon
>
>
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