As a side note... something I like about freecad sketch drawing is that you can start drawing a line, and pressing M the tool switches to arc mode, so you can draw very quickly a rounded rectangle flr example. Just a comment.
Thanks and cheers On Mar 15, 2017 11:50, "John Beard" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > This tool doesn't add any new feature to the arc tool other than angle > snap. If the lines are rectilinear and end on the grid, the angle > snapping at least makes this a /little/ bit easier. > > If you mean having arcs tangent to a line that "grow" out of the end > of a line, that would not really be possible with the tool as it > stands. However, the geometry manager stuff in this patch is intended > to make it reasonably straight forward to implement new geometric > construction processes, with a view to enabling exactly that kind of > thing. > > On the other hand, if users are trying to make rounded corners, an > "arc fillet" tool might work better for that particular use case? Also > a rounded rect tool to quickly layout the most common (?) case. > Ideally we'd have all the above, as no one tool will perfectly cover > all cases. > > Cheers, > > John > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Simon Richter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 14.03.2017 16:44, John Beard wrote: > > > >> This is something I've bene toying with for a little while: an > >> enhanced overlay and construction method for arcs in Pcbnew. > > > > One thing that people have been asking about is a way to connect arcs > > and lines, is it possible to add that in your design later? > > > > Simon > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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