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Re: Zone fillet radius limitation

 

Keep in mind that the 4000 was in internal units.  The 400 is in mil.
Looks about the time internal units for pcbnew were changing.

That said, let's have a look at the implications of Marcos' suggestion
during v5.1.  Feel free to post thoughts here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1780518

-S

Am Fr., 6. Juli 2018 um 18:53 Uhr schrieb hauptmech <hauptmech@xxxxxxxxx>:

> It was 4000 previously.
>
>
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/commit/1f50b2c7674e53e74dbd8595dac124785db2089b
>
> This appears to be a useless limit. Can we remove it completely? The Poly
> fillet code correctly handles fillets that are (too) large.
>
>
>
> On 7/07/18 12:41, Marcos Chaparro wrote:
>
> Hi,
> could we increase the radius limit for the zone fillets?
>
> It currently is at 0.4 inch radius, its a rather arbitrary limitation, and
> when I try a workaround to make a copper arc zone, I type 15mm but I'm
> being limited to 10.14mm (0.4inch)
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> Its an easy fix, just change the max 400 mils to a higher value. 4000
> maybe?
>
> #define MAX_ZONE_CORNER_RADIUS_MILS 400
>
>
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/b43dc7954ce1a76ff19581db02ca7c8d2cf5b4d2/pcbnew/zone_settings.h#L35
>
> Cheers
>
> Marcos
>
>
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