Hi Wayne & Nick,
that was me that 2 years ago that opened that bug 1360790...
I didn't know that this was discussed so deeply, I just noticed there
were no reply at all ...
If you design some mechanical parts inside pcbnew (i.e. an enclosure for
the board) it is necessary to export this draw to DXF as a single line
to send this to mechanical production...
I still consider this a very useful feature missing in KiCAD but
available in most ECADs...
Still I have some hope that could be revived ...
Anyway @ Nick, if you can reach the person who needs this feature, you
can tell him/her to contact me... I have some workaround to export
pcbnew drawings to DXF; moreover my kicad StepUp script could be slighty
modified to import the drawings in FreeCAD and the directly manipulate
those or export to DXF...
but those are just workaround
Regards
Maurice
On 11/04/2016 19.42, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
This has already been discussed. The decision to change from the line
drawing to the polygon outlines was at my request. JP graciously
changed the DXF line drawings to the actual polygon shapes generated by
the intersection of the line output. I requested this because the line
drawings required massive amounts of effort to convert to polygons. I
will not ask JP to change it back or add an option to use the line
drawings. If someone is willing to step up to the plate and
re-implement the line drawing dxf output, I'm OK with that as long as
it's optional and the polygon output is kept in tact.
On 4/11/2016 6:30 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
Hi all
Someone on IRC just asked about being able to export DXF as the line
type and I found this thread via google, which I will revive. Since it
describes the problem pretty well with the attached images.
So is this by intention or not that one can not use the plot mode
combobox now? I just tested in 6673 on windows.
Regards
Nick Østergaard
2015-06-19 12:37 GMT+02:00 easyw <[email protected]>:
Hi,
I'm plotting some mechanical parts using pcbnew
in old stable release (4022) it was possible to plot DXF with the option
Mode:Line
then the mechanical DXF exported was fine with single Line objects
now (5785) it is not possible anymore ... it seems that the Line mode option
is gone...
the result is an object double lined as in the attached images...
I tried to just enable 'm_plotModeOpt->Enable( true );' and adding choice
Line to the form, but it is not enough...
could someone help me in finding where I should search to add this option?
I think that for exporting mechanical parts (related to the pcb board) it is
useful to have Line mode available...
thanks
Maurice
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