Here’s a footprint I drew recently which was made much harder by Kicad’s focus on arc centre points:
> On 11 Jul 2019, at 15:46, Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > to 11. heinäk. 2019 klo 15.43 easyw (ea...@katamail.com > <mailto:ea...@katamail.com>) kirjoitti: > > On 07/11/2019 1:21 PM, Dino Ghilardi wrote: > > On 11/07/19 12:26, easyw wrote: > > 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). > > I don't get your user case... > > I realized even before you (easyw) wrote that I was partly wrong about the > relative importance of different features of arc. But I have lately been > exposed to a workflow quite similar to what Dino told about. And he's exactly > right - "should do" and "do" are two different things. In small companies > fighting for their life you don't have the luxury of having dedicated > "fashion designer" and people use what they can and do what they can. I won't > go into details here to save myself and some other people from embarrassment; > for example I won't mention STL as intermediate format. > > I don't blame KiCad at all for not supporting suboptimal design workflows but > it would be good if it would support all use cases. This is of course only > tangential for the discussion about the file format, but maybe it can at > least give something "FYI" to the developers. What Tom said is very > interesting. The new UI and backend may make current feature wishes > fullfilled or unnecessary. > > Eeli Kaikkonen > _______________________________________________ > 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
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