Alex, On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Alex G wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/10/2010 06:46 PM, dave m wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Alex G <mr.nuke.me > > I hope that by "going metric" you guys mean "having the ability to > > easily switch between metric and Imperial." Imperial *is* so last > > millennium, but unfortunately it's still widely used by PCB fabricators > > in North America (at least in my corner) and in many data sheets. > > > We already have the ability to easily switch between metric and and > imperial. What I meant was to switch the base unit system to metric. > Right now, when you enter a metric value, that value is converted to > imperial and stored as such. Going metric would mean that metric values > are kept as is, but imperial values are converted to metric before being > stored. Considering the _exact_ correspondence of 25.4 between > millimeters and inches, this can be done with no loss of precision. > Currently this loss of exactness happens (3.2mm becomes 3.19999something). > > I think that's what Vesa meant as well. > > Alex I've done a bunch of work converting PCBNEW's internal unit to nanometers. --brian -- Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦ bidul...@openss7.org ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in ¦ http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to himself. ¦ ¦ Therefore all progress depends on the ¦ ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
