Why do parts get placed at the center of their bounding box and not at their origin? The latter would be much more sensible since accurately placing complex-shaped parts like connectors becomes needlessly difficult when they get placed at the center of their bounding box.
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Maybe yes maybe no. I think that in the one of the previous versions I used origin of the model. Why this changed - I do not remember :), but probably I had a good reason to modify the code ;).
Other thing, for many models this is without difference - not everyone is doing models at 0, 0, 0.
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My projects includes complex parts such as USB and FFC connectors. For each one of these, I'd need to find out the bounding box in freecad and punch these values into freecad-pcb. Maybe you could add an option for either placing parts at their origin or a button for calculating the X/Y/Z shift from the bounding box and filling these in automatically.
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Hi,
there is some pull request on the github about auto model assignment for kicad. Maybe it will be something similar to your question, I need to check this. If not, I will try to find some solution for this.
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Why do parts get placed at the center of their bounding box and not at their origin? The latter would be much more sensible since accurately placing complex-shaped parts like connectors becomes needlessly difficult when they get placed at the center of their bounding box.
Maybe yes maybe no. I think that in the one of the previous versions I used origin of the model. Why this changed - I do not remember :), but probably I had a good reason to modify the code ;).
Other thing, for many models this is without difference - not everyone is doing models at 0, 0, 0.
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My projects includes complex parts such as USB and FFC connectors. For each one of these, I'd need to find out the bounding box in freecad and punch these values into freecad-pcb. Maybe you could add an option for either placing parts at their origin or a button for calculating the X/Y/Z shift from the bounding box and filling these in automatically.
Hi,
there is some pull request on the github about auto model assignment for kicad. Maybe it will be something similar to your question, I need to check this. If not, I will try to find some solution for this.