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Date: | Mon, 7 Nov 2011 17:34:09 -0800 |
From: | Colin D Bennett <colin AT gibibit DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] Footprint Pads (8-sided) |
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 10:24:26 +1100 Stephen Ecob <stephen DOT ecob AT sioi DOT com DOT au> wrote: > > This looks much better in Peter Clifton's pcb+gl branch than in > > mainline pcb git HEAD at present. See attached image. Â It > > handles overlapping traces MUCH more nicely. > > I agree it looks nicer, but the transparency effects in GIT head > using GTK+GL do have the benefit of letting the user know that > these are not simple pads. They /almost/ don't need to know, but > it would he helpful if they experience the unexpected behaviour > of "snap to pad center" when working with overlapping but > misaligned pads. Agreed that the snap-to-pad is really lousy when you have non-simple pads. Still, it hardly helps the user to see all the component pads... the problem of snapping remains. Regards, Colin
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