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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:55:13PM +0100, Mathias Grimmberger wrote:
> BTW, does anybody know what the CERN people are doing? Because properly
> supporting roundrect pads in the PNS router needs an extension to the
> geometry primitives, something like a convex polygon shape (as a bonus
> this would make support for arbitrarily rotated pads possible).

I think that for handling 99% of the use cases the rectangle is a good
approximation.

Unless, of course, you're starved of space and you want to cut through
diagonally on the rectangle fillet :D

I claim guilty of these tricks, having nested whole components to the
side of D2PAK leads...

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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