Re: gEDA-user: Trapezoid pads

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 17:23 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> 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.
> 

Do you mean "same number"? The pads have name and number -- if I
remember correctly name is arbitrary, but overlapping electrically
connected pads have the same number. (And number don't have to contain
only digits, it can be text...)




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