On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Ben Jackson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:56:25PM -0500, d...@umich.edu wrote: >> >> I just created a thread on cnczone.com, which I want to bring to your >> attention. I titled it, "Schematic Capture to dxf File - using gEDA, >> Inkscape, and pstoedit": > > I have been thinking about how to do improved isolation routing. Someone > mailed the list a picture where the only cuts were the ones necessary to > cut the board into islands congruent with the copper. So imagine you have > just two pads on your board. The 'outlines' would cut two boxes. The > 'isolation' would just be a line bisecting the board between the two pads.
How do you differentiate between pads that must be a certain shape, like for an SMT capacitor, and islands that simply need to be separated? > If you want to save something like that directly from > PCB, though, the polygon code could do all of your Inkscape steps > internally. Ahhh.... so... does that mean the polygon code could be easily tweaked to produce the vector outlines of all the pads on the paste layer? That would be 95% of what I need for laser cutting solder stencils. -dave _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user