| ID: | 3459 |
| From: | Bob Paddock <gr...@gmail.com> |
| Date: | Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:25:58 -0400 |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] What is the origin for XY files? |
| in-reply-to: | 3458 from ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| replies: | 3460 from ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 9:59 AM <gedau@igor2.repo.hu> wrote: > The origin point, by default, is the top left corner of the drawing area, > since pcb-rnd is using the same coordinate system for the xy export as for > the GUI. This link: > http://repo.hu/cgi-bin/pool.cgi?cmd=show&node=macrofab Also says: "By default pcb-rnd uses the implicit Pick and Place(P&P) origin of 0;0 at the lower left corner." As well as something else I can't locate now lead me to believe the default origin was the lower left. Either way the origin point needs to be referenced in the created file, to get around exactly these ambiguities.
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3459 Re: [pcb-rnd] What is the origin for XY files? from Bob Paddock <gr...@gmail.com>
3460 Re: [pcb-rnd] What is the origin for XY files? from ge...@igor2.repo.hu