Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in footprints
> Isn't the footprint, and its handling, modular in some way Not really. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in footprints
DJ Delorie wrote: How hard would it be to get PCB to accept polygons in footprints? We'd need polygons on both copper and silk layers, and both with and without soldermask. Currently, element components are special cased all over the place. So, adding a polygon means adding an ElementPolygon() syntax, and modifying all the create/move/delete/copy/draw routines, plus stuff like save, convert to/from element, select, find, etc. It gets worse if the polygon is also a pin/pad (i.e. you can connect to it). Oh, and the autorouter and optimizers. And rats nest functions. Isn't the footprint, and its handling, modular in some way that could allow for addition of something like Polygon[x1 y1 x2 y2 x3 y3 flags width] and ElementPolygon[points ... flags width]? It would resolve the problem people expressed sometime mid-last year about making pads bigger than .25" and of being able to easily make graphical footprints. Keeping mask off of weird copper items, and so on. Phil ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in footprints
> How hard would it be to get PCB to accept polygons in footprints? > We'd need polygons on both copper and silk layers, and both with and > without soldermask. Currently, element components are special cased all over the place. So, adding a polygon means adding an ElementPolygon() syntax, and modifying all the create/move/delete/copy/draw routines, plus stuff like save, convert to/from element, select, find, etc. It gets worse if the polygon is also a pin/pad (i.e. you can connect to it). Oh, and the autorouter and optimizers. And rats nest functions. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
gEDA-user: Polygons in footprints
How hard would it be to get PCB to accept polygons in footprints? We'd need polygons on both copper and silk layers, and both with and without soldermask. Phil ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
