On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:43:49AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems though the parts of the polygon that would be remove normaly but now > wouldn't need to be removed any more because of lines connecting the inner > part to ground again have to be redawn with a new rectangle. Is that > unavoidable?
If your "plane" sections are only connected by a trace then I think you may want to reconsider your layout, however, you're right about PCB's behavior being odd. What it does is cut all the holes for all the wires, pads and pins and the result is a collection of outlines of filled areas, each with inner holes. It saves all this information, but only the largest area is drawn as part of the board. It doesn't consider any other electrical or connection information. If you want to see something funny, draw a poly and then slice it with a clearing line, and then start dropping components onto whichever side remains. Eventually you'll make it smaller and the poly will "flip". > I still notice pcb is sometimes very slow when I use copy or cut to buffer of > the whole board. When it is in the buffer and the redoutline is drawn moving > happens in steps taking a second or so. But this is not always the case. You could download my autocrop() plugin from gedasymbols.org. It would also solve your "outside the board" request. Just make the board huge and autocrop() when you're done. -- Ben Jackson AD7GD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ben.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
