> Well, I loaded the file in GerbView 6 & all I can see a single hole. > That was the reason I tried Postscript output. > > My ancient BoardMaker for DOS also supports such rectangular holes as > standard pad type. But most modern layout softs doesnot allow this !? > > I have circumvented this problem(Eagle) by placing overlapping holes > on a single pad thus creating rectangular hole. Since kicad does not > allow this & it does supports the non-circular holes I tried it. > I just wanted to cross-check the output! > > regards, > sam_des
Rectangular holes are no holes as such - they are milled squares. The softwares supporting milled areas can be used to define these structures but it's slightly unusual. Regarding square pads. The traditional Gerber plotters had only round apertures and could subsequently not do squares... The corners of the smallest structure had always the radius of the smallest apertures. Keep in mind that most PCB cad softwares must carry this heritage but KiCad is one of the better I've seen lately. //Dan
