On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 11:47 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:48:05PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >
> > > Also, I've been prodding some stuff with polygons. I noticed rendering
> > > benchmarks spent a lot of time in the no holes polygon dicer.
> >
> > Yup.
> >
> > > I've changed things such that polygons can take the "CLEARLINE"
> > > flag, ("j" on the keyboard bindings), to change if a polygon clears
> > > other polygons or not. In the case where it clears, filled rendering
> > > is disabled, it just renders an outline, and that polygon plows
> > > holes in any other it touches.
> >
> > I.e. this can be used to make holes in the ground plane?
>
> I think so, and it may be very useful for my high frequency
> boards with coplanar where I used coplanar waveguide structures.
> (If would be even handier if I could draw this kind of polygon
> on the silkscreen layer).
I'd like to see support for polygons on silk layers, but don't really
know what that would entail.
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Peter Clifton
Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
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