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[Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Jean-Pierre!

I see myself in charge to test that ASAP, but...
unfortunately, I am still sitting on an urgent design to get
a board out into manufacturing.

I thought I start to re-create some of my known-good
standard footprints using round-rects and create some
examples for further testing.

Image attached... greyish color == paste mask

I tend to use RoundRects also for paste mask openings
to reduce the number of cleaning cycles of the stencils.

Clemens


On 2016-02-12 18:14, jp charras wrote:
> Attached, a first patch to test rounded rect and custom shaped pads.
> (against rev bzr 6552)
> 
> Although most of features are working (DRC, plot, ...), this is still a
> work in progress, and all features and options are not fixed.
> 
> custom shaped pads can be created only by a very basic and crude editor
> in pad properties dialog.
> 
> There is not a graphic editor (the graphic pad editor is to be defined),
> just a dialog to add/remove/duplicate and edit basic shapes (line, arc
> circle and polygon)
> 
> The pad shape is a set of basic shapes + the pad anchor (a usual circle
> or rect pad, which is the pad position reference)
> In pns router and zones the pad shape clearance area is the convex hull
> of the actual shape.
> 
> Currently there is no verification of the validity of the shape.
> The full shape is expected to be only one copper area.
> 
> I attached a sample.
> 
> I need volunteers to start testing these new pads.
> 
> 
> 
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