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[jean-pierre charras - INPG <jean-pierre.charras@...>]

Jonas Diemer a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> as I have mentioned last week, DRC Pad2Pad checks are currently 
> incomplete.
> Right now, DRC violations between pads that are rotated by an angle not a
> multiple of 90° are not detected.
>
> To prevent undetected DRC problems, I think we should be conservative 
> and emit
> a DRC error whenever there are rotated pads for which we do not have a 
> DRC
> check in place, i.e.
>
> Index: pcbnew/drc.cpp
> ============ ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= =
> --- pcbnew/drc.cpp (Revision 1954)
> +++ pcbnew/drc.cpp (Arbeitskopie)
> @@ -1144,6 +1144,7 @@
> else // Any other orient
> {
> /* TODO : any orient ... */
> + diag = true; // ... until we have fixed this, we assume DRC
> violation.
> }
> }
> break;
>
> What do you think? Should this go into SVN until we have a fix? Who is
> currently working on DRC?
>
> Regards
> Jonas
This is a poor fix!
I do not believe Pcbnew must create a DRC error for each pad having a 
non 0 or 90 deg orientation.
This will understand as a BUG for users who have such pads in their board.

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