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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

The edge.cut layer is a nice addition, but lacks real drawing tools.
I do not understand why we have an ARC and CIRCLE drawing tool, but no RECTANGLE tool.
That would make life a lot easier. Creating a rectangle with a polyline tool is always a pain if you use a small grid.
I would really like a rectangle tool, plus a break/cut tool in order to insert features (cuts)

Just my two cents,

Jean-Paul



On Sep 3, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 05:33:09PM +0100, Brian Sidebotham wrote:
>> I don't think there's any reason to have disconnected vertexes on the
>> Edge.Cuts layer is there? Perhaps for drawing a rout line, but then I
>> draw a rectangle with the correct width of the router bit I want used
>> so it is less ambiguous.
> 
> As a rule there *can't* be disconnected edges on the border layer...
> IDF and probably SPECCTRE too need closed polygons and the DRC and zone
> filler need to convert the borders to a zone to work.
> 
> So I'd say that in some way the pcb edges should close to a polygon
> (with holes). *Multiple* polygons could be debatable, however...
> 
> -- 
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
> Logos Srl
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