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Re: gEDA-user: Trapezoid pads



On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 10:34 -0500, George M. Gallant, Jr. wrote:
> I am looking to make a trapezoid shaped pad for an inductor. So far, I 
> created
> a rectangular pad and drew lines on the surface to create the shape. Is 
> there
> a better way as I would like to reuse the pad shape.

No good way at present. Within a footprint, you can of course use
multiple pads with the same name.

You might consider placing lines (all the same name) when editing the
footprint, but you will have to add enough lines to block out the shape
you want.
   ______
  /_______\
 //_______\\
/___________\

Not very nice, but it works. I've attached an example.

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)
Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me)

Attachment: test.fp
Description: application/pcb-footprint


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