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Message #18893
Re: Rotated pads in PNS
On 23.06.2015 18:18, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 06:11:52PM +0200, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>> Chris,
>>
>> There is a patch by Mathias Grimberger (he sent it quite a bit of time
>> ago), which I'm planning to integrate with P&S this week, along with
>> other, IMHO more urgent bugfixes (e.g. assert failures).
>
> Excellent! I started doing it myself, but as I'm quite unfamiliar with
> the PNS code I was having trouble and figured a better use of my time
> would be fixing things up in an area I'm more familiar with for now.
> Nice to hear someone already got it.
>
>>
>> Honestly, I don't consider this a really big bug. It's just an annoyance
>> we could live with. It doesn't prevent you from using rotated pads,
>> you'll just have to route some of them without P&S.
>
> I respectfully disagree. It's not just PNS, it's all of GAL - even just
> choosing "Highlight collisions" you still can't route that unless you
> disable DRC or switch to legacy. If GAL is indeed supposed to be a full
> replacement for legacy, I'd want to be at a point where all work can be
> done in GAL before release.
AFAIR the non-GAL canvas does not have a highlight collisions mode
either... Anyway, arguing won't fix anything. The patch is done, I just
need to test and integrate it.
T.
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> Chris
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