I wondered where that self-intersecting polygon warning was coming from in third party Gerber viewers was coming from.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jean-pierre charras Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 8:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Kicad-developers] Polygons support in Kicad. In my recent commit, I removed Kbool from Kicad, and replaced it by Clipper. See http://www.angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php Currently, to handle polygons (mainly for zones), I am using boost::polygon and Clipper. Clipper is, by far, more easier to use than Kbool, needs very few code to be used, has a better license ( BOOST libraries license), and is currently actively maintained. It is currently used only to normalize polygons, i.e. to convert self intersecting polygons to simple polygons, which is not possible with boost::polygon. The best is to use only one library for polygons, but it is currently not possible. Each library (boost::polygon and clipper) has advantages and drawbacks. I also made a very serious code cleanup in polygon functions (obscure and dead code removed). I hope it do not break Pcbnew. I am thinking a good support of polygons is very important for Kicad. -- Jean-Pierre CHARRAS _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
