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Iain Wilkie
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 15 Jan 2023 : 11:24:41
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As a very long term user of EasyPC I find my self a little embarrassed having to ask a basic question such as this, its maybe old age I don't know but here goes .....
I normally am given complex board outlines from my customers in the form of a DXF file and thats fine. However on this occasion I need to create my own. Its basically an outline containing a number of specific angles of various sides.
Now I *thought* I could do this with the "shape editor" tool but it doesn't seem to work the way I would like. I'm probably not using this correctly but if I draw the rough shape I need, then open the shape information bar and try to edit co-ordinates and angles the angle information for instance is initially all 0.0 and editing it to a given value only creates arcs !!
I'm doing something wrong here or I'm going mad in my aging years .... probably the latter !!!
Embarrased Iain 
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edrees
United Kingdom
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Posted - 15 Jan 2023 : 14:37:26
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Iain, nothing to do with Fillet/Mitre settings?
Just a wild guess!
Sorry can't help with the age issue. I'm having the same problem, hopefully V27 will have a fix for this! |
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Iain Wilkie
United Kingdom
1018 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jan 2023 : 11:41:01
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Ed,
Nope canny really figure it out ... such a basic thing to try and achieve .... yup its maybe old man syndrome 
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edrees
United Kingdom
781 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jan 2023 : 12:11:49
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Just "experimenting" Iain and can see your issue.
Try adding a segment to your segment in question (using the Shape Info Tool as guidance for x,y and angle info), then "Arc"=> "Arc to line" should give you what you're after.
Must admit, not used this feature before and its not exactly intuitive is it!
BR.
Ed.
Edit.
I've concluded its easier to do the Trig to work out the next X,Y co-ordinates! |
Edited by - edrees on 16 Jan 2023 12:51:07 |
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Iain Wilkie
United Kingdom
1018 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jan 2023 : 16:50:40
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Ed,
Thanks for confirming I'm not loosing my mind.
My eventual solution was the same as yours and do the trigonometry and then simply enter the co-ordinates !
Everyday is a school day even at our ages 
cheers
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PCB outline problem