Hello, Mathias! Thank you for your time spending on this.
>>> Clemens Koller <c...@embeon.de> writes: >> First feedback: It would be great to make the corner radius variable >> instead of fixing it to 25% of the shorter pad edge and <=0.25mm. [1] > That can certainly be done. > What do you think how it should work? Well, you can keep your defaults as they are as an "automatic" radius feature, which idea I really like: [X] Adjust corner radius automatically to [p] percent where p can be entered in a textbox. p=25% seems fine as a default. And show the calcualted [r] radius i.e. in a greyed out textbox for information. If you uncheck the automatic option, you simply grey out the [p] percent and allow to fill in the desired [r] radius with proper clipping of the value as necessary. In the file format of the other tool, there are only three parameters per layer: x-size, y-size, corner radius. (The rotation of a pad in a footprint is not possible. Reasonable automatic presets are non existent. :-( ) > I imagine the following: > - optionally a radius can be given, <= 0 or not given means use default > as above (I need to check how the file format handles optional values) I would prefer to see what the default as well as what the current setting is. 0 is 0 and not "default" which is 25% of the shorter pad dimension, which calculates 2mm down to 0.5mm. > - actual value used is clamped between 50% of shorter edge and some > small value (a radius of 1 or 2 internal units might cause nasty > numerical problems) 50% of shorter edge and some clipping in the small scale is fine. You had 100nm there IIRC. But are the numerical problems caused by a bug which should be fixed anyway? > - in the pad properties dialog the input field is empty by default for > new pads > Would the possibility to alternatively give the radius as a percentage > of the shorter edge be useful? It would complicate things a bit though. Sorry, seems like I cannot follow you here. Which input field? Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
