I would agree if it wasn't for the fact that everything else in the engineering world is specified in metric, and PCB's don't live in a bubble isolated from that metric world. Now that electronic components are (finally) going metric, having PCB software that doesn't work well in metric is becoming more and more of a problem.
Since kicad is currently based on traditional units, could the problem of rounding be solved by allowing the user to specify what the base units represent (and then storing that specification in the file so kicad always knows what base units it should be using)? Regards, Robert. > When speaking of inches you have to distinguish between decimal > inches (mils) and fractional inches as well as feet and inches vs inches > only. If you work strictly decimal inches it's no better or worse than > metric, IMO. > > eric > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your > question. > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of > Kicad. > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your > symbols/modules to the kicad library. > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the > kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups > Links > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.387 / Virus Database: 270.13.8/2227 - Release Date: 07/09/09 > 05:55:00 >
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