| ID: | 908 |
| From: | ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Sun, 24 Sep 2017 11:36:54 +0200 (CEST) |
| Subject: | [pcb-rnd] new feature: polygon vs. polygon clearance |
| replies: | 909 from John Griessen <jo...@cibolo.com> |
Hello pcb-rnd hackers, some boards need a lot of copper: so much that it looks like if the whole bottom layer was just copper with a few gaps drawn to form islands. A new way of drawing this with pcb-rnd is enabling polygon-vs-polygon clearance, as demonstrated in the 2-minutes video at: https://archive.org/details/poly-clear-poly This enables polygons to make clearance around themsleves the same way as lines or arcs do. (Speaking in technical terms, the new flag, PCB_FLAG_CLEARPOLYPOLY is the polygon alternative to the clear-line flag used on lines and arcs). The real reason for adding this feature was to support arbitrary shaped smd pads with subcircuits - the smd pad needs to be able to clear other polygons. Being able to draw these thick islands in a ground plane is just a bonus. Regards, Igor2
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908 [pcb-rnd] new feature: polygon vs. polygon clearance from ge...@igor2.repo.hu
909 Re: [pcb-rnd] new feature: polygon vs. polygon clearance from John Griessen <jo...@cibolo.com>