>----- Original Message -----
>From: Dan Chianucci <[email protected]>
>To: Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]>
>Cc: [email protected]
>Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:58 AM
>Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] New Pcbnew file format.
[snip]
>To Cirilo:
>I agree with what you are saying, about being difficult to associate
>individual pieces to a single module if they were all saved the same
>way. However the module "text" will still be inside of a module 'tag
>block'. I would say that the parts that make up a module should be
>saved as if the module were centered at (0,0) with a rotation of 0.
>Then the module itself would hold onto where it is on the board, and
>at what rotation. Internally, it would be trivial to calculate the
>actual positions of the each module's pieces.
Ah, OK - I probably misunderstood. So the issue is really one of generalizing
an object 'text' rather than having an object such as 'pcb_text' and
'module_text'. In that case I agree with you 100% - they are all text but will
behave differently when plotted depending on what their parent object is. Even
in the old format the context is clear and the tool I am working on to produce
STEP assemblies from a (old format) pcb file uses a generic "text" object
rather than separate specialized objects.
- Cirilo
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