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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you’re going to do everything in DXF, why have drawing tools at all?

(And by corollary, if you’re going to have drawing tools then make them suitable for the task at hand.)

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 11 Jul 2019, at 17:16, easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 07/11/2019 5:17 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>> Here’s a footprint I drew recently which was made much harder by Kicad’s focus on arc centre points:
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> This is exactly an example that should be done in a mechanical CAD and imported later in KiCAD (i.e. as DXF).
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> Complex mechanical object should be addressed with mechanical CAD, not ECAD.
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