Re: [kicad] DXF Plots and dxflib

2023-06-06 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Hi John, You may want to consider creating a DXFLIB_PLOTTER object along with the logic to use it rather than risking breaking the existing DXF_PLOTTER.  I don't know that anyone on the development team has any experience with using dxflib to write to DXF.  Once the DXFLIB_PLOTTER object is pr

Re: [kicad] DXF Plots and dxflib

2023-06-06 Thread John Timms
Hello Seth, Thanks. I took a day before writing to look at what would need to be done assuming no migration to dxflib. I will take a look now and make sure I haven't underestimated the complexity of migrating. John On Mon, Jun 5, 2023, 12:33 Seth Hillbrand wrote: > Hi John, > > The plotter c

Re: [kicad] DXF Plots and dxflib

2023-06-05 Thread Seth Hillbrand
Hi John, The plotter code pre-dates the dxflib import code by some number of years. That is the simple reason why the library isn't used for plotting. If you were to revise the dxf plotting code to use dxflib, I doubt anyone would have any heartburn over this change as long as you worked within t

[kicad] DXF Plots and dxflib

2023-06-04 Thread John Timms
Hello, I am new to the project and interested in contributing on Issue #2446 DXF export should export dimension items as DXF dimensions (lp:#1832717) . The 7.0.0 release does not plot KiCad dimension items at all with the option "Plot graphic