Pcbnew: measure always on inch

Bug #1851820 reported by Michele Giorato
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KiCad
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

The dimensions (Ctrl Shift H) do not respect the unit of measurement in use, they are always in inches.
The interactive measuring instrument (caliper) follows the measurement unit in use instead.

Application: Pcbnew
Version: (5.99.0-319-g6182133a4), release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.66.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.1.1) nghttp2/1.39.2
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
    Build date: Nov 7 2019 22:08:39
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
    Boost: 1.71.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.66.0
    Compiler: GCC 9.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

Tags: pcbnew
Revision history for this message
Seth Hillbrand (sethh) wrote :

The default dimension units are in board settings.

Changed in kicad:
status: New → Invalid
tags: added: pcbnew
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