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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:25:57 -0700
From: Andrew Poelstra <asp11 AT sfu DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Working with a 0.1mm grid
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 05:24:07PM +1100, Stephen Ecob wrote:
> I'm working on a PCB with a 0.1mm grid.  When I save the PCB, the grid
> gets converted to 393 mil (approximately 0.099822 mm).  When I
> subsequently reload the PCB the grid is subtly different, and all
> sorts of off-grid mayhem results (unless I remember to manually reset
> the grid to 0.1mm after every load).
> 
> I'm using PCB built from GIT head.
> 
> Does anyone have a trick for making metric grids save and load properly ?
>

What I do is:

In src/pcb-printf.h, change the line

  ALLOW_READABLE = ALLOW_CMIL,

to

  ALLOW_READABLE = ALLOW_MM,

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Andrew Poelstra
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