The feature seems to work well, clearances don't have effect on a board or in the gerbers with paste or mask pads.
The dialog isn't very good as you told yourself. First, the text is sentences, unlike titles, checkbox option, menu items etc. Therefore they should all end with a period. (Now there are two sentences which end with a period and three which don't.) Also, why not hide altogether the texts which aren't relevant for the pad type? And actually hide or set to invisible, not just grey out? The relevant instructions would be much easier to read and understand. Copper Non-copper Text show hide "Set fields to 0..." hide show "These parameters are used only... Pads only on..." show hide "Positive... Negative..." And that would be only one step from disabling the clearance fields for non-copper pads. But I'm already happy with the changes in this patch or even the previous patch, it was the idea of applying global clearances to non-copper pads which bugged me and was tedious to work around. Thank you very much. Eeli Kaikkonen 2018-05-03 12:37 GMT+03:00 jp charras <[email protected]>: > Attached a patch (against the current master version) with these changes: > > Fixes in Pad settings dialog. > And mainly for pads not on copper layers, all margins/clearances are > ignored, even margins defined > in the Pad settings dialog (it was not the case in the previous patch). > > This new behavior has my preference, because it is more intuitive. > > -- > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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