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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I strongly disagree with this mindset.
It feels like saying that because KiCad is currently bad at something, it
should always be bad at something and users should just use a different
tool because KiCad will never be good at it.
If we have the developer interest to make KiCad good at drawing things, why
not do so?
It doesn't help that the available FOSS MCAD tools are (in my opinion) much
less capable relative to their commercial competitors than KiCad is
relative to commercial ECAD tools.

-Jon

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:16 PM easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> 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:
> >
>
> This is exactly an example that should be done in a mechanical CAD and
> imported later in KiCAD (i.e. as DXF).
>
> Complex mechanical object should be addressed with mechanical CAD, not
> ECAD.
>
>
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