--- In [email protected], Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebot...@...>
wrote:
>
> 2009/5/8 bears1bear <h...@...>:
> > 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.
thanks!
i came to kicad via gerbview, so my search of the docs was a bit
biased and limited....i didn't find info about that context
menu, but be assured i will next time.
>
> > 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.
>
many thanks, brian!
hwn
