Hi, So polygons are very neat as they employ the nice polygon drawing features we are used to from zone drawing [*1].
A missing feature here is to _not_ have them filled but simply an outline. Why ? This would be _very_ useful to draw Edge.Cuts. Currently, the only way is to draw single lines, which are then hard to adjust later, as they all fall apart into separate lines, and have to be edited manually. Now, if that could be drawn with the polygon tool, that would remove a huuuuge pain having to deal with outlines (and yes, I know the usual advice to draw that separately and import as DXF. But what if I could just do simple polygons directly ?). Also what we could get for almost free then: Chamfers and Fillets. I like to have boards with rounded corners [*2], but currently this is of course a torture to do manually and and dread it every time it comes to that part of the project: draw a rectangle with the line tool. Do circles in the corners and manually calculate where the center and the start point is, shorten the lines accordingly to match the length shorter the radius. Do that on all four corners. That easily takes several minutes and high concentration. And god forbid one wants to change that again later ... Now how wounderful that would be if that could be done with the Polygon tool and I just choose to have a fillet or camfer. If this is something nobody is working on yet and if people think this is a good idea, I might have a look over the Thanksgiving days. Cheers, Henner. [*1] also see my mail before [All kinds of glitches], Polygons as-is are currently broken and maybe the concept should be merged with the zone ? [*2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hzeller/quadrigotion/master/img/tmc2660-quad-render.jpg _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp