Thanks, Jean-Pierre! I see myself in charge to test that ASAP, but... unfortunately, I am still sitting on an urgent design to get a board out into manufacturing.
I thought I start to re-create some of my known-good standard footprints using round-rects and create some examples for further testing. Image attached... greyish color == paste mask I tend to use RoundRects also for paste mask openings to reduce the number of cleaning cycles of the stencils. Clemens On 2016-02-12 18:14, jp charras wrote: > Attached, a first patch to test rounded rect and custom shaped pads. > (against rev bzr 6552) > > Although most of features are working (DRC, plot, ...), this is still a > work in progress, and all features and options are not fixed. > > custom shaped pads can be created only by a very basic and crude editor > in pad properties dialog. > > There is not a graphic editor (the graphic pad editor is to be defined), > just a dialog to add/remove/duplicate and edit basic shapes (line, arc > circle and polygon) > > The pad shape is a set of basic shapes + the pad anchor (a usual circle > or rect pad, which is the pad position reference) > In pns router and zones the pad shape clearance area is the convex hull > of the actual shape. > > Currently there is no verification of the validity of the shape. > The full shape is expected to be only one copper area. > > I attached a sample. > > I need volunteers to start testing these new pads. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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