On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 01:13:40PM -0700, Roger Marin wrote: > I'm one of those who silently read the Kicad developer discussions. > Please forgive my jumping in here...
The list is public and feedback is welcome (and useful) > Yes, if needed, you *can* create a filled copper zone in a module. Technically yes, since you can use trapezoidal pads to tile whatever area you want (since they can degenerate to axis aligned triangles, I think it could be proved that such a decomposition is always possible). But drawing a polygon in the module and saying 'I want that filled with copper' no, that's not possible. It *could* be done with either a new kind of module primitive or really enhanced pad support (look in gerber aperture macros, the primitive 4 allows you 4000 vertices in a *pad* :D); there is also the conventional gerber fill which is already used for regular zones. > circumvent some of the more frustrating design enforcement features > that are a part of the Kicad design philosophy. Uhmm... part is design philosophy, part is missing features:P Look at gencad, in that old format you can't even *express* trapezoidal pads... (in kicad we don't have padstacks, so I guess the score is even) > Attached is a "thrown together" .MOD that started life as a .BRD, > was stuffed through BRD2EMP, imported into Pcbnew's module editor, > then saved as a .MOD . Please note that text cleanup or pin > renumbering was not done in the module editor phase. Going *too* crazy with strange pads can give headaches with board testers. Also it seems that your converter raster fills an area which is a big no for gerber these days:P As always it depends on your fabricator software/engineer (I've seen boards rejected because they used AM and their importer was flaky and didn't recognize the netlists...) > BTW: Today, after creating the test EMP, I found that the module > editor from the latest main bzr release throws a biuParse() exception > while loading the EMP. No such problem exists with the stable release Is the 'loading' kicad nano enabled? I filed a bug with EMP handling a while ago, maybe they're related (it was a really weird scaling issue, but who know). -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
