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Subject: Re: [geda-help] Drawing lines in PCB with commands
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Hello,

Narendiran writes:
 > Is it possible to draw lines (tracks) in PCB with commands?
 > Something like ...
 > 
 > Drawline(x0,y0,x1,y1)
 > [...]
 > Drawline2(x0,y0,rad, phi)

You can write simple commands like these with Guile-PCB
(https://launchpad.net/guile-pcb). See
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~patrickb/+junk/drawline/view/head:/drawline.scm
for example.

To give it a try, follow the instructions below.


With PCB 20110918, install Guile-PCB from the latest released tarball
(20110918.2) or the branch 'guile-pcb-20110918'
(https://launchpad.net/guile-pcb/20110918) or my PPA
(https://launchpad.net/~patrickb/+archive/ppa) if you are using an
Ubuntu system.

Then download the 'drawline.scm' file from its branch
(https://code.launchpad.net/~patrickb/+junk/drawline) and save it in
one of PCB 'plugins' directory.


With PCB HEAD, instead, you will have to build Guile-PCB from the
'guile-pcb-guile2' branch
(https://code.launchpad.net/~patrickb/guile-pcb/guile-pcb-guile2) and
copy the updated plugin from the 'drawline-guile2' branch
(https://code.launchpad.net/~patrickb/+junk/drawline-guile2).

HTH,

-- 
Patrick Bernaud