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Re: Acid-Traps - how to avoid them? (was: Something new and old)

 

In principle, a minimum curvature can be applied to geometric
outlines. Maybe we can do that one day; aside from creating a fillet,
such a feature would also round the edges of all rectangular pads.

- Cirilo

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, there, Hello, Heikki!
>
> I just had a look at the video at https://youtu.be/G1YCu2daNww posted from Heikki
> and was wondering if it is possible to avoid Acid-Traps [1] as shown in your example.
> I've marked these in the attached picture.
>
> Usually, the PCB tools take special care how to exit a pad with a trace avoiding these acute corners and
> have some design- and first corner rules.
>
> Regards,
>
> Clemens
>
> [1] For further information, see: https://community.cadence.com/cadence_technology_forums/f/27/t/11497
>
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