Hello, Cirilo! On 2016-01-14 01:39, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: > I'd like to implement arbitrary pad shapes but this requires a functional 2D > geometry kernel first. I'm starting on one but I may have nothing to > demonstrate > until the end of the year.
That sounds very interesting - until I read "end of the year". ;-) RoundRects pad shapes are treated in in the other tool also as basic or elementary pad shapes and I hope we can do the math to treat the corners properly by hand (we will see). So i am fine with the current test-implementation of Mathias since it could become usable (in a testing-branch) far before the end of the year. I might be a bit pushing here as RoundRect pad shapes are about the (next ;-) last missing feature in Kicad to suck in the librarys I used to generate for my other tools. Arbitrary shaped pads (polygones associated to pins) are also in use, but they are not generated yet. OT: I am talking a lot about footprint generation because ideally, I am able to adjust and tune all the standard footprints in a library for the different manufacturing processes to optimize yield without touching the footprint assignments manually in my designs. (This also affects schematics copy&paste as well as physical design reuse.) Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
