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From: | "M. J. Everitt (m DOT j DOT everitt AT iee DOT org) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> |
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Date: | Sun, 5 Jun 2016 08:01:36 +0100 |
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --887C0ma31rUsCRgKApmxBKW6nqPh8E9g4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 05/06/16 05:40, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > M. J. Everitt wrote: > >> I've lost PCB elements off the drawing area by accident before .. >> the solution of simply enlarging the area, moving items, then >> re-adjusting seems perfectly reasonable to me. > I fail to see why pcb needs to enforce positioning to the "working=20 > area" in the first place. This might have had some merits when the=20 > working area was identical with the outline of the resulting board.=20 > But these days are long gone. > > So my preferred solution would be a bit more general:=20 > * Remove the distinction between working area and the rest of the=20 > canvas when in comes to positioning of objects. > * Maybe, even remove the notion of the "working area" completely.=20 > > ---<)kaimartin(>---=20 > What I mean by the 'working area' is the canvas area described in PCB as the "Board size" in the preferences, not by any outline drawn on the screen. Goodness knows what the maximum 'canvas area' can be, and hence the limits of where you _could_ theoretically /store/ components "out-of-sight" but not removed completely ... I'm sure one of the devs/coders will probably be able to answer this .. := ] --887C0ma31rUsCRgKApmxBKW6nqPh8E9g4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXU85RAAoJEEwwM0+TwiNxCEoP/35N82WnJxbDDQVJjCDz1Wjd v2QXQNMtbs+wiKI+mhgqzO3D4eIHW9Z0mB14T9UbQsp/PDMliG51dZ1T6uGFWq8o MuGskDCwg+3YFiq0p2WUB8UeRTKlLoqIrZC8EVTCqG8rRqmSW4It09tH0ttuJGBB QT8j3StG6jVe62WK+nOGDxqWpODKy6EY8yeSYRN/XPGi9cIsmTyiTGM8scuvmNWh 4LYTWJYp5oTHv3ZBYJBS0oH2kx3UYotGilU+s5xWcORzQmabBNkVfVU1J6G81Fc2 6pZA2/oiFz5NN/QDYgXhfnUSc6uKLMhMBX0/7sxQAM5aDV6kNpPfVFh/8RAm4r7Q KR5Ja7iwsavfCcMOiOWur/VqMalNp4t68EWZyMSI6dimZd9IcrrN5A05koKpRfF1 vpTqppwbl+aJeZ/8rw501ohBn1/TvuZwo1NVCbGgaa+wItiwHqzEBs6kzMw8sePl F0fw5BP3Sz4ro8CLp3v599gifGxPLZn2ewQblH/PH+LNO/O8GnT7xAhpzQfeulhn lMxPI2aw3Lu4phVGIedZ6xULm46hfy+esd70At2zz+Pz6vYj0niL1AJEnGMeb4oc sLz7R388JQ1/QRx636IzdVMP0E1W4Li7+NWBLt9Pj2x0NCEbMQnbGc8E8YuVlDaF XvnIcu+9uC6/nfZMN01c =c3a3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --887C0ma31rUsCRgKApmxBKW6nqPh8E9g4--
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