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[Dino Ghilardi <dino.ghilardi@xxxxxxxx>]

On 11/07/19 12:26, easyw wrote:
> On 07/11/2019 12:05 PM, Dino Ghilardi wrote:
> > My two cents...
> >
> > Unfortunatly some times the centers are anchors of the board, other 
> > times they are not: when the external case is designed by a "fashon 
> > designer" and you have to put your electronics inside, the board 
> > outlines can be quite weird, not (totally) under our control and the 
> > centers of the board outline arcs are not always anchor points. The 
> > problem is that both the approaches make sense in some situations: 
> > sometimes you like an "exact" center, some others you like "exact" 
> > endpoints.

> then your fashion design should use a proper CAD to design the board, 
> and the EDGE should then imported inside KiCAD i.e. from a svg or a dxf 
> file or handled directly with FreeCAD.

Yes, he should... but he won't: (he's not under my control).

> There is a Snap option in KiCAD to make an end of a segment snapping to 
> a selected end point.
> > You can do this by holding the Alt key while moved an end point.

Works well with segments, but when snapping to join two arcs it works 
only when moving one of the ending points (the other does not change the 
radius), so it becomes a little bit tricky.

Cheers,
Dino.