gEDA-user: Polygons in PCB

2010-03-08 Thread Anthony Shanks
Is there a way to make a square polygon with round edges in pcb? One more unrelated question. Is there a way to place vias with a default soldermask clearance less than 0? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in PCB

2010-03-08 Thread DJ Delorie
Is there a way to make a square polygon with round edges in pcb? Manually? Sure. Use a zero-length line to form the round bits on an otherwise 8-sided polygon. One more unrelated question. Is there a way to place vias with a default soldermask clearance less than 0? Soldermask opening

Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in PCB

2010-03-08 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:18:56AM -0800, Anthony Shanks wrote: Is there a way to make a square polygon with round edges in pcb? Not to my knowledge, I have done it by cutting the corners at 45 degrees and adding a non polycon-clearing zero length track at the corner (in one case I also used

Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in PCB

2010-03-08 Thread Anthony Shanks
Sorry that was a mis-statement. Is there anyway to place vias that have a soldermask clearance MORE than 0? By default, when I place a via, it has zero soldermask clearance. On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Gabriel Paubert paub...@iram.es wrote: On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:18:56AM -0800, Anthony

Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in PCB

2010-03-08 Thread DJ Delorie
Is there anyway to place vias that have a soldermask clearance MORE than 0? The code for inserting new vias has a zero hard-coded in the function call (action.c, look for CreateNewVia). ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in PCB

2010-03-08 Thread Anthony Shanks
Why is that? The board house I use (4pcb) requires soldermask clearance for vias. I'm sure they are not the only ones. On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:49 AM, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: Is there anyway to place vias that have a soldermask clearance MORE than 0? The code for inserting new

Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in PCB

2010-03-08 Thread DJ Delorie
Why is that? Because nobody's changed it to do otherwise? The board house I use (4pcb) requires soldermask clearance for vias. I use 4pcb and they do not require soldermask clearance for vias. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in PCB

2010-03-08 Thread Anthony Shanks
I just submitted a board to them a few weeks ago. When I uploaded my gerbers I got hundreds of warnings for having no soldermask clearance. I added their minimum clearance and all of the warnings were gone. Maybe technically since they were warnings its not required, but I didn't want to take a

Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in PCB

2010-03-08 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:47:55AM -0800, Anthony Shanks wrote: Sorry that was a mis-statement. Is there anyway to place vias that have a soldermask clearance MORE than 0? What I typically do is to se all parameters of a via to be what I want, and then type a on top of the via to perform

Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in PCB

2010-03-08 Thread DJ Delorie
I think their tools don't know the difference between vias and pins, and if you have any vias bigger than the smallest pin, it thinks you have tented pins. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org