Request for new primitives

[Manfred Schaefer]

Hello,

Among the primitives, there is the primitive n-fchrd.dat. This primitive is well suited for creating a transition to, for example, an enclosing circle. Unfortunately, the starting point of the circle segment is always at 0°. Sometimes it would be useful if this starting point were at 22.5°, for example. The circle segment would then go from 22.5° to 67.5°. In the high-resolution version, it would be 7.5° or a multiple thereof.

Rotation that is not equal to a step size of 90° results in rounding errors that can lead to visual errors.

Furthermore, a similar primitive would be useful, forming a circle segment from, for example, 22.5° to -22.5°. The center point of the circle segment would then be at 0°.

My question is whether it would be possible to introduce such primitives.

Best regards,

Manfred

[Manfred Schaefer]

Hello,

I’d like to come back to my question above.
What is the procedure if I need primitives, as described above?
Can I simply create them, or are there specific rules to follow?
Question for Travis Cobbs: what about support for primitive substitution in LDView for these new primitives?

Best regards,

Manfred

[Travis Cobbs]

Question for Travis Cobbs: what about support for primitive substitution in LDView for these new primitives?

Regarding LDView, the best way to get it to support a new primitive is to create a GitHub issue. I will point out that I haven't spent a lot of time developing LDView for quite a few years now, but its development hasn't stopped.