This sounds like a reasonable solution for kicad 5 to me. Thanks for taking care of it.
On 02/05/18 14:58, jp charras wrote:
Hi All, Dick Hollenbeck ( who wrote a lot of code for Kicad) proposed to use global mask margin values only for pad at least on a copper layer. (I am thinking this is also what was expected by some of guys) Attached, a patch to use global mask settings only for pads on copper layers to build the mask shape (solder or paste layer) of the pad. Therefore pads *only* on a solder or paste layer are no longer affected by global settings. (The drawback is a change in the behavior of previous Pcbnew versions, but it should not impact a lot of old boards or old footprints) The change in code is very small. I added a info message in dialogs, in the pad clearance setup sub-window to explain the purpose of this setting. This is perhaps the main problem, because a message in a dialog must be short, and yet understandable... The info messages are not perfect. Please, test it. _______________________________________________ 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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