Comment 8 for bug 593877
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| Stephen (artist-wavenet) wrote Re: Proposal to introduce so-called reference pointpoint | #8 |
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A way this could be done is to add a two pairs of fields in the Module parameters dialog box for coordinates. One of the them would be for the X,Y coordinates relative to the origin point for drill and place files, and the other relative to the origin point of the grid.
I too very much need this for providing connector coordinates to the mechanical designer. I generally provide connector coordinates relative to the lower left edge of the board. To do this now I temporarily move the entire board so its lower left edge is at the origin of the coordinate system.
To ease my providing these coordinates I design my connector modules with the X origin on the connector's center line. To ease placement to where the connector is against the chassis wall I place the module's Y origin where the inner wall of the chassis would be.