Vanessa Ezekowitz <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:57:20 -0800 > Dave N6NZ <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Feb 25, 2010, at 10:45 AM, DJ Delorie wrote: >> >> > >> > Everything in pcb supports non-90 arcs, except for the ability to >> > create them. Someone needs to come up with a friendly way to >> > create/edit arcs that aren't 90 degrees, that's all. >> FWIW QCad has 3 pimary arc creation modes: >> [snip] >> Not that pcb needs to or should follow QCad, just posting the info for >> reference. The "center/radius/end1/end2" method seems pretty natural and if >> PCB did only that it would cover a lot of ground. > > The way I as thinking, the user could click once to set the center, > make a second click to set the radius and the first endpoint of the > arc at the same time, and a third click to set the second endpoint of > the arc. One might also want to support the control key to constrain > the arc to regular steps like 22.5 degrees.
There was a request for line trimming and extension. Maybe that could be implemented first, and then made to work for arcs/circles as well. That's how I draw arcs in qcad: I draw a circle, and then trim it. -- Stephan _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
