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[Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, Cirilo!

On 2016-01-14 01:39, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> I'd like to implement arbitrary pad shapes but this requires a functional 2D
> geometry kernel first. I'm starting on one but I may have nothing to demonstrate
> until the end of the year.

That sounds very interesting - until I read "end of the year". ;-)

RoundRects pad shapes are treated in in the other tool also as basic
or elementary pad shapes and I hope we can do the math to treat the
corners properly by hand (we will see).
So i am fine with the current test-implementation of Mathias
since it could become usable (in a testing-branch) far before the end
of the year.

I might be a bit pushing here as RoundRect pad shapes are about the
(next ;-) last missing feature in Kicad to suck in the librarys I
used to generate for my other tools.

Arbitrary shaped pads (polygones associated to pins) are
also in use, but they are not generated yet.

OT: I am talking a lot about footprint generation because ideally,
I am able to adjust and tune all the standard footprints in a library
for the different manufacturing processes to optimize yield without
touching the footprint assignments manually in my designs.
(This also affects schematics copy&paste as well as physical design
reuse.)

Regards,

Clemens