Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] New pad primitive shape: Chamfered roundrectangle

2018-08-31 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
This sounds like a reasonable proposal. It would probably simplify both the code and the file format. On 8/31/2018 1:08 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: > Hi JP- > > It feels like there might be room to refactor our rectangular pads in v6 > instead of having rectangle/rounded

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] New pad primitive shape: Chamfered roundrectangle

2018-08-31 Thread Seth Hillbrand
Hi JP- It feels like there might be room to refactor our rectangular pads in v6 instead of having rectangle/rounded rectangle/rounded-chamfered rectangle. We could unify to just "rect" and have an optional sub-elements (rounded (param ...)) and (chamfer (param ...)). The corner effects then just

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] New pad primitive shape: Chamfered roundrectangle

2018-08-31 Thread jp charras
Le 31/08/2018 à 09:08, Rene Pöschl a écrit : > Hi, > > From reading the patch it seems this is for cases where you have exactly > one corner to chamfer. Which is a nice addition for qfn footprints. > Attached a new patch (against current master) that allows chamfer 1 to 4 corners. Of course

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] New pad primitive shape: Chamfered roundrectangle

2018-08-31 Thread Rene Pöschl
Hi, From reading the patch it seems this is for cases where you have exactly one corner to chamfer. Which is a nice addition for qfn footprints. It would however be a bit more flexible if every corner is toggleable independently (so one could make pads with 1,2,3 or even 4 corners

Re: [Kicad-developers] [RFC] New pad primitive shape: Chamfered roundrectangle

2018-08-30 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
JP, This looks useful but please do not merge this until after 5.1 is released. I want to keep the file formats stable for the entire 5 series of releases. Once we open the development branch for v6, then we can start making file format changes. Thanks, Wayne On 8/30/2018 2:33 PM, jp charras

[Kicad-developers] [RFC] New pad primitive shape: Chamfered roundrectangle

2018-08-30 Thread jp charras
Hi Alls, Attached a patch (against latest master version) that add a new pad shape: chamfered round rectangle. It is now frequently used in footprints. Although this kind of pad shape can be created by custom pad shapes, a primitive pad shape has some advantages: - more easy to edit - support