--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, "dickelbeck" <d...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, "robert" <madworm_de.yahoo@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, "josh_eeg" <josheeg@> wrote: > > > > > > Will the board house cut a circle? if your doing it yourself just make > > > the squair big enough and do the circle on the silk. > > > > I was planning to get the boards cut as a circle. > > > > It is possible to work around this with a polygon as the outline just so > > the autorouter works and then replace it with a perfect circle. I'm just > > not sure if the problem is kicad or the autorouter. > > > > Step 1: > > How are you defining a circle using the "edges pcb" layer? I assume you had > to enter 4 quarter circle arcs? Or other? If arcs, make sure they are > connected, exactly down to the exact matching end coordinates. > > I can provide subsequent steps as needed. > > Dick >
Initially I was brave enough to just use a normal circle on the edges_pcg layer, but that didn't work out. I sent the .dsn file to the head of freerouting.net and got told that it only supports closed polygons and arcs as outlines, but not full circles. So I ended up with using 4 arcs.
