On 8 April 2012 13:14, Edwin van den Oetelaar <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Edwin van den Oetelaar <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:28 PM > Subject: remarks about the internal nanometer resolution > To: KiCad Developers <[email protected]> > > > First of, I have not followed the discussion about the NanoMeter. > I do have some remarks. > >From an engineering standpoint the NanoMeter makes little sense to me. > If the smallest item represented is a nano-meter, in a 32 bit integer > this means the largest board can be only 2.14 meters in size. (-/+ of > the origin) > >From my viewpoint this is not enough. (I know of CNC machines much > larger than 2 meters)
But +/- 2.15m is ~ 4.3m I don't see any point in changing anything that has already been done in order to support a PCB larger than 4 metres. The patch would simply be to move coordinates to a 64-bit int anyway, so it would not be too difficult should someone come along with this as a requirement. 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
