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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] how to you actually draw a polygon?
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 17:17:11 +0100
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DJ Delorie wrote:

> If you have "all direction lines" selected, it will probably do what
> you expected.  The default is for that to be not selected, which
> means you're limited to 45 and 90 degree lines, making Shift-P
> refuse to close the polygon unless it can close it with a 45 or 90
> degree line.

A combination of 45° and 90° lines should always be able to close the 
polygon.


> Clicking on the start vertex a second time will close the polygon
> (subject to the above conditions) but hitting the exact spot depends
> on your grid settings ;-)

In a perfect GUI the cursor would snap to the start vertex. Like all 
snapping, the sensitive radius should be given in screen coordinates 
(rather then real world dimensions).

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