2009/5/8 bears1bear <[email protected]>:
> hi.
> in using gerbview to review externally generated (i.e. not from
>   pcbnew) gerbers and manually editing same for a bug report,
>   there are a couple of features that would have been really
>   handy:
>
> 1. the ability to delete a block of data.
>
> e.g. select a block of stuff to move in the usual fashion but
>   use delete key as signal to just eliminate the data instead
>   of moving it. (i think it'd also be useful in eeschema and
>   pcbnew)

You can drag as normal to select a block, and then right click and
from the context menu select "Delete Block". I find the block
selection a bit odd sometimes though, you only have to get a single
point of an object in the selection and it will be deleted.

> 2. the ability to re-export gerber data from gerbview.
>
> admitting that i've not looked at the source code to see the
>   internal representations used and whether or not there is any
>   linkage to source maintained, i realise this one might take
>   quite some doing.
> the only output now is back to pcbnew, and that does not preserve
>   arcs properly.

I expect this to be a future capability. Again, the feature request
tracker is active if you want to request any features:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=145591&atid=762479

Best Regards,

Brian Sidebotham.

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