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Re: [RFC] New pad primitive shape: Chamfered roundrectangle

 

This sounds like a reasonable proposal.  It would probably simplify both
the code and the file format.

On 8/31/2018 1:08 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> Hi JP-
> 
> It feels like there might be room to refactor our rectangular pads in v6
> instead of having rectangle/rounded rectangle/rounded-chamfered
> rectangle.  We could unify to just "rect" and have an optional
> sub-elements (rounded (param ...)) and (chamfer (param ...)).  The
> corner effects then just apply to the base rectangular pad. 
> 
> Thoughts?
> -Seth
> 
> Am Fr., 31. Aug. 2018 um 09:59 Uhr schrieb jp charras
> <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     Le 31/08/2018 à 09:08, Rene Pöschl a écrit :
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > From reading the patch it seems this is for cases where you have
>     exactly
>     > one corner to chamfer. Which is a nice addition for qfn footprints.
>     >
> 
>     Attached a new patch (against current master) that allows chamfer 1 to 4
>     corners.
> 
>     Of course for 6.0 versions
> 
>     -- 
>     Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
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