On Monday 20 August 2007 09:32, Christoph Lechner wrote: > > I knew some packages used this technique of rasterizing with tracks to > > form polygons, but I wasn't aware they made it this obvious to the user. > > I guess setting the track width defines the end radius and size of > > feature it will add though. > Exactly. If you draw a track in Protel, its ends are "rounded"; it adds > a filled circle with diameter=track width to the end points
Which has the really annoying effect of giving you a rounded end poking out of a pad when you enter the pad from the other side. Sometimes resulting in DRC errors. Protel/DXP snaps to the center point of the pad, and the rounded end doesn't always end where the pad does and gets close to the next pad of a device. > You can move things around as you like. Then once you need the polygon > rebuild, you double click the polygon plane and a dialogue pops up, > showing the parameters used when you first created that fill. Then you > click OK and it recomputes the plane. The baseline is that it isn't done > automagically at all, you have to do it as you want/need. Because it is slow and crash prone in my experience with it. -- http://www.wearablesmartsensors.com/ http://www.softwaresafety.net/ http://www.designer-iii.com/ http://www.unusualresearch.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user