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[Andrzej Wolski <awolski.kicad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Those pads are shown in 4.0 GAL and in 5.0 legacy, only 5.0 GAL has this 
problem, so to me this is a regression fix rather than workaround.

Fixing those pads may be a good idea, but that is another matter.

Andrzej


W dniu 2018-06-22 o 20:03, jp charras pisze:
> Le 22/06/2018 à 19:51, Andrzej Wolski a écrit :
> > Hi Seth,
> >
> > current behavior is that malformed pad holes are always hidden, so you can't see on the screen
> > something that exists on your PCB and will be plotted in drill files. This patch makes those holes
> > visible.
> >
> > Andrzej
> OK,
>
> But perhaps a better way is to fix this kind of malformed pads, as perhaps they can create other
> issues (especially related to DRC).
>
> Showing them is a workaround, not a fix.
>
>
> > W dniu 2018-06-22 o 17:46, Seth Hillbrand pisze:
> > > ​Andrzej-
> > >
> > > Can you explain the issue that this patch addresses?  I read the commit message but it looks like
> > > malformed pads (GetLayerSet().any() == 0) are no longer hidden.  This seems counter-intuitive but
> > > maybe I'm just not seeing the problem.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Seth​