On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:47 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote: > I do not fully understand what is going on when a polygon is divided by > a trace (with clearance). > > Is there somewhere an explanation how it (should) work? > > Is there a way to deactivate the removal of copper? > It is my impression that always the smaller part of a rectangle/polygon > is removed, even when the two sub-parts are connected by a trace? > I think this is not always desired.
I have some scratch code to do a proper pour, keeping all pieces which aren't connected to something "better", such as a line, via, etc.. That seems to work vaguely nicely for me, but the code isn't ready yet. I still need to figure out how to make it backwards compatible with the old polygon method, lots of things to finish off, corner cases to fix for triggering island detection. Also, I need to work out if I can make island detection work fast enough to update on the fly without annoying the user, or whether that process (perhaps pouring its-self) needs to be a manually invoked operation. Best regards, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user