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- Lines Library Help
-
- Lines items are used to define the complex
- segmented shapes used by the board outline
- and user defined shapes.
-
- Lines items consist of 0 or more pieces
- and 0 or more text strings.
-
- Each piece contains info on the corners
- describing the segments of the piece.
-
- Each corner describes its location and if
- the previous segment of the piece is an arc,
- the corner also indicates its start angle
- and the length (in degrees) of the arc.
-
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- The format for a Lines item is:
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- (Items that are not in capital letters are
- Optional)
-
- NAME TYPE X Y LEVEL WIDTH NUMPIECES numtext
- TYPE NUMCRNS {for each piece in item}
- X Y BGNARC DELTAARC GEMOARC MINX MINY MAXX MAXY
- X Y BGNARC DELTAARC GEMOARC MINX MINY MAXX MAXY
- .
- X Y BGNARC DELTAARC GEMOARC MINX MINY MAXX MAXY
- PIETYPE NUMCRNS {for each piece in item}
- X Y BGNARC DELTAARC GEMOARC MINX MINY MAXX MAXY
- .
- X Y BGNARC DELTAARC GEMOARC MINX MINY MAXX MAXY
-
- X Y ORI LEVEL HEIGHT WIDTH MIRROR
- TEXT
- .
- X Y ORI LEVEL HEIGHT WIDTH mirror
- TEXT
-
-
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- > NAME TYPE X Y LEVEL WIDTH NUMPIECES numtext
-
- NAME: User defined Lines item name
- (up to 16 chars)
- TYPE: Valid Lines types are:
- LINES- General purpose item
- BOARD - Board outline item
- X Y: Origin of lines item.
- LEVEL: Level to put the item on.
- Level 0 means all levels.
- BOARD and DECAL type items must be put
- on level 0.
- WIDTH: Line width used to draw the item.
- NUMPIECES: Number of pieces in the lines
- item.
- numtext: Number of text strings associated
- with the lines item(optional).
-
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- > TYPE NUMCRNS {for each piece in item}
-
- TYPE: Type of piece being described.
- OPEN - Segments of are open ended.
- CLOSED - Segments of are closed ended.
- The last corner must be same as the
- first corner. BOARD type line items
- must be closed.
- CIRCLE - Piece must have two corners
- which describe the diameter.
- NUMCRNS: Number of corners in the piece.
-
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- >X Y BGNARC DELTAARC GEMOARC MINX MINY MAXX MAXY
-
- X,Y: x,y coordinate of corner
- BGNARC: (optional) bgn angle in degrees of
- the arc
- DELTAARC: (optional) length in degrees of
- the arc.
- GEOMARC: (optional) length in degrees of
- the arc( same as delta arc).
-
- MINX MINY MAXX MAXY: (optional) rectangle
- around circle on which the arc is described.
-
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- > X Y ORI LEVEL HEIGHT WIDTH mirror
-
- X,Y: x,y location of text relative to the
- lines origin.
- ORI: Rotation of text (0 90 180 270).
- LEVEL: Level the text is located on.
- HEIGHT: Height of the text in thous/inch.
- WIDTH: Line width used to draw the text.
- mirror: Mirror value of the text M=mirrored,
- N=not mirrored(optional)
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- > TEXT
-
- TEXT: String of text associated with the
- lines item
-
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- <END OF HELP FILE>
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