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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Export rounding
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 01:00:00PM -0800, Russell Dill wrote:
> I'm submitting a board that I did with gEDA PCB in metric. The export to
> imperial has caused some issues. The drill file and gerber files apparently
> round to a different number of decimal places and it causes the drills to
> wander in relation to copper.
> 
> In my case, I have holes with 5 mil annular rings, which are my process
> minimum, those minimum are now violated in my exported data. Has anyone
> else run into this issue before? Have you been able to do anything to solve
> it?

I have always export in metric now (since I wrote the patch to allow it ;-)). 
The metric Gerber and drill files have the same resolution, that's a very
good reason to use the metric export option (not the default for compatibility
reasons).

I don't know if there is an official release with this option, I am 
almost always at the bleeding edge for gEDA and PCB, compiling from 
a git repository. If you export from the GUI, there should be a metric
checkbox in the export dialog, if you use a command line, add --metric
to the options.

	Regards,
	Gabriel