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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Henner,

AFAIK, no one is working on any more changes to the polygon tool.  I am
planning on announcing the stable 5 feature freeze sometime over the
Thanksgiving holiday so if it's not ready by then, it will have to wait
for the next development version.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 11/21/2017 12:42 AM, Henner Zeller wrote:
> Hi,
> So polygons are very neat as they employ the nice polygon drawing
> features we are used to from zone drawing [*1].
> 
> A missing feature here is to _not_ have them filled but simply an
> outline. Why ? This would be _very_ useful to draw Edge.Cuts.
> Currently, the only way is to draw single lines, which are then hard
> to adjust later, as they all fall apart into separate lines, and have
> to be edited manually.
> 
> Now, if that could be drawn with the polygon tool, that would remove a
> huuuuge pain having to deal with outlines (and yes, I know the usual
> advice to draw that separately and import as DXF. But what if I could
> just do simple polygons directly ?).
> 
> Also what we could get for almost free then: Chamfers and Fillets. I
> like to have boards with rounded corners [*2], but currently this is
> of course a torture to do manually and and dread it every time it
> comes to that part of the project: draw a rectangle with the line
> tool. Do circles in the corners and manually calculate where the
> center and the start point is, shorten the lines accordingly to match
> the length shorter the radius. Do that on all four corners. That
> easily takes several minutes and high concentration. And god forbid
> one wants to change that again later ...
> 
> Now how wounderful that would be if that could be done with the
> Polygon tool and I just choose to have a fillet or camfer. If this is
> something nobody is working on yet and if people think this is a good
> idea, I might have a look over the Thanksgiving days.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Henner.
> 
> 
> [*1] also see my mail before [All kinds of glitches], Polygons as-is
> are currently broken and maybe the concept should be merged with the
> zone ?
> 
> [*2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hzeller/quadrigotion/master/img/tmc2660-quad-render.jpg
> 
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