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Subject: Re: [geda-user] [PATCH] Allow to create metric Gerber and drill
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:45:59AM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out, I completely missed it, but I think 
> that they point to the wrong 0 when looking at the source. 
>

Oh, good catch!
 
> Corrected in the following, with a fix for octogonal apertures
> in which I did a mistake and ended up with two metric conversion
> specifications. Note that I have touched a bit the whitespace at
> the beginning of the comments so that they start with a tab like
> the surrounding code lines.
>

Can you elaborate on this a bit? Specifically, do we need a new
test case to check on this (since our existing ones apparently
did not catch the bug)?

> 
> The fact that imperial Gerber have 2 orders or magnitude better
> resolution than the associated drill is a problem (25.4µm versus
> 0.254µm). At least metric gives micrometer resolution for both. 
>

Is this a problem with the spec, or our implementation?
 
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Andrew Poelstra
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