On 12 January 2011 23:40, Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/12/2011 04:19 PM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> I've been routing a board this week, and found the Set Grid Origin a >> god send! The only trouble is that the grid origin doesn't get saved >> with the board. >> >> Is the grid origin meant to be saved with the board file? I would have >> thought it should be if it has been moved from 0,0. Otherwise it is >> easy to get off-grid when you continue routing the board when you >> re-open it. >> >> Thanks for all your hard work, routing this PCB has been really smooth. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Brian. > > >From my recollection, Lorenzo made a patch to save that option in the board > file, and it never got committed. This is at least a year ago. I think he > has his own tree local on his disk and it is in there. It would be > wonderful if you could find the original patch and get it in sync with > current code. Would need a way to search the mailing list, or maybe Lorenzo > has a better idea. > > > Dick >
Hi Dick, Thanks for the response. This is the original email from Lorenzo for the original patch: Quote Lorenzo 13/10/2009 --- I uploaded the file gridorigin-r2010.diff.gz Only slightly tested (but is a really simple patch anyway). Notes: - I added the tool under the aux axis tool, with the same icon. It could be put under the show grid button maybe. With a new icon :P - There may be some fuzz in the patch because I also have other in house modifications. Please note in pcbnew/tool_pcb there are some AddSeparator tagged to removal; I kept it to avoid invalidating the patch (I removed separators to be able the use the 800x480 screen on the EEE); - I flagged the m_UserGridIsON. It seems to be unused; - The juice of the computation is in common/zoom.cpp. That seems to be the only place involved with grid computations; - The origin is not saved in the .brd file. I'm not sure if it could be useful... anyway I thing pcbnew/ioascii.cpp is the place to look into for it. Hope to make Dick and other people happy :P (I'm already using this :D) --- There is nothing else in the archives relating to the grid origin as far as I can see. The original patch I guess is lost along with the kicad-devel yahoo group. I will dig around the source and see if I can add the functionality as I'm sure it is more expected to be saved if it has changed. Best Regards, Brian. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
