Comment 35 for bug 1643330

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Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw) wrote : Re: [Bug 1643330] Re: pcbnew: plot dxf draws 2 lines instead 1 with the right width

@Eldar, if this is the proper use of the DXF line thickness parameter,
then your changes would not correctly represent a DXF file. I don't
think it's a good idea to be using the DXF thickness parameter in a
non-standard way just for own purposes. It will only confuse users who
generated DXF files using third party CAD tools for importing them into
KiCad. Exporting them will cause the same confusion because users will
assume as I did that setting the thickness parameter will be renderer as
lines with thickness in third party CAD tools. Does anyone else out
there have enough knowledge of the DXF file format to verify that I am
correct about this?

On 4/22/2017 1:55 PM, Eldar Khayrullin wrote:
> And https://a360.autodesk.com/viewer/ use the Thickness parameter as
> extrusion height. Kicad DXF import interpretate extrusion thickness as
> line width. Probably DXF doesn't support lines width.
>