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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

JP,

If you are OK with Jeff's proposal, please push your patch so we can get
some more testing on this before the v5 release.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 5/3/2018 4:39 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> I’m happy to clean up the dialog if JP wants to check in what he has.
>  Just let me know….
> 
> 
>> On 3 May 2018, at 19:54, Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> The feature seems to work well, clearances don't have effect on a
>> board or in the gerbers with paste or mask pads.
>>
>>
>> The dialog isn't very good as you told yourself. First, the text is
>> sentences, unlike titles, checkbox option, menu items etc. Therefore
>> they should all end with a period. (Now there are two sentences which
>> end with a period and three which don't.)
>>
>> Also, why not hide altogether the texts which aren't relevant for the
>> pad type? And actually hide or set to invisible, not just grey out?
>> The relevant instructions would be much easier to read and understand.
>>
>> Copper    Non-copper    Text
>> show      hide          "Set fields to 0..."
>> hide      show          "These parameters are used only... Pads only
>> on..."
>> show      hide          "Positive... Negative..."
>>
>> And that would be only one step from disabling the clearance fields
>> for non-copper pads.
>>
>> But I'm already happy with the changes in this patch or even the
>> previous patch, it was the idea of applying global clearances to
>> non-copper pads which bugged me and was tedious to work around. Thank
>> you very much.
>>
>> Eeli Kaikkonen
>>
>>
>> 2018-05-03 12:37 GMT+03:00 jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>>:
>>
>>     Attached a patch (against the current master version) with these
>>     changes:
>>
>>     Fixes in Pad settings dialog.
>>     And mainly for pads not on copper layers, all margins/clearances
>>     are ignored, even margins defined
>>     in the Pad settings dialog (it was not the case in the previous
>>     patch).
>>
>>     This new behavior has my preference, because it is more intuitive.
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>>
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