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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

IFAIK, the autoplace routine uses the board outline bounding box which
will be a rectangle created by merging all of the outline drawing items
so the results you are seeing are not surprising.  The autoplace tool is
very crude.  We would have to move to a fully polygonal design to
accomplish what you are trying to do.  You could add it to the wishlist
but it will be fairly low on the priority list.

On 11/7/2015 7:06 PM, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> If you create a non rectangular, say circular, edge cut shape, autoplace
> footprint function thinks it is rectangular and puts elements inside and
> outside borders. I did not tried complex shapes but it should misbehave
> similarly...
> 
> Please test if it's me that I am not able to use it...
> 
> Regards,
> 
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> Marco Ciampa
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