On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 01:02:25AM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 22:57 +0100, Martin Kupec wrote: > > > Sometimes, when you place to lines too close, but not that close > > in polygon. It will make thin line in the polygon connecting two > > part of the polygon. DRC will mark this line as too thin. > > Actually, I'm pretty sure the DRC will miss this error (unless the thin > line was _required_ for some connectivity), - And even then I'm not 100% > sure. It misses the error. I have found old bug describing this behaviour. > > > It > > should automaticly erase such lines. Any proposal, how to fix > > this? > > It is quite a hard problem to solve actually.. I'll have a think about > it... it really needs solving, and I've been looking at / thinking about > polygons recently. You are probably the most qualified one :-). > > > When you make a via in polygon. Change the clerance to too > > small value and add thermal(even full thermal). DRC will mark > > this via as having too smal clearance. This seems like bug to > > me. > > Sounds like ;) (I'll point you at a bug tracker to file it at some > point, but we're probably going to move trackers pretty soon anyway, so > you might have the honour of filing the first (new) bug in the new bug > tracker if you wait a while!). I am trying to file a bug at launchpad.net. > > > Bigger issues is that when I drag component, lines are dragged > > with it. This is fine, but the lines do not respect any > > orthogonal/45 deg rules. > > You can switch off rubber-band mode in the settings menu. More > intelligent rubber-banding could be done in the future, but is not > trivial to implement. I know that this is problematic. I can work with current state. I just pointed to all problems I had :-). > > > I cannot simply unmask part of the board. I know how to do it, > > but that is not optimal. Having some Solder mask layer with > > polygons clearing solder mask would be neat. > > Future TODO item for when we re-work layer support in (some) future PCB > version. I'd expect it will not happen any time soon. There is a patch on tracker(ID 2986641). It add few new layers and one of them is component_mask(and solder_mask). What do you think about that patch? It doesn't apply currently, but it can be a starting point.
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