----- Original Message ----- > From: Lorenzo Marcantonio <[email protected]> > To: Kicad Developers <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 4:27 PM > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Module editor branch merged > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 03:27:44PM -0700, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: >> How do these PCB edge modules interact with the PCB board edges? >> Will they be solids or cutouts? What happens when a module with >> a drawing on the Edges.Cut layer hangs over the edge of a PCB? > > Just think about merging the edges in the module with these drawn. > > The resulting behaviour would be the same. > > What happens when you draw a new edge hanging over the edge of the pcb? >
I suspect we will need a separate cutout layer then. For me modules are more useful with cutouts rather than solid outlines. A card edge connector for example can have a cutout to ensure that the board edge has the correct shape. This way there will be no confusion about whether a draw segment is a cutout or a solid. At the moment this is inferred by assuming there is a single solid whose outline has a feature with the lowest X value; other segments are then checked for contiguity with this feature and that forms the solid outline - everything else is a cutout. With that logic, a module with a solid outline that hangs off the left edge of the board becomes the board outline and the genuine board outline becomes a cutout. A module extending over any other edge becomes a cutout of the board outline. Or am I confused about how the edges are treated? - Cirilo _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
