gEDA-user: patch for last PCB snapshot on sourceforge

[Dan McMahill <dan@mcmahill.net>]

On the patches section of the PCB sourceforge project page, there
is a patch from harry which addresses the bug found by David Koski
regarding creating elements.

-Dan

Mail from harry eaton about elements follows:
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David,

You found a bug! Converting Buffer contents to elements was
working when I first added that "in-place" feature a couple of months ago.
I must have done something to break it since then.

There are a couple of points to clear up for you:

(1) Using the "select" menu requests that you click on the layout. This is
NOT
to identify the pieces, but to establish the element "mark" which is
where
the crosshair normally grabs the element (it establishes the position of the
element
with respect to grid). So the line must already by selected (i.e. cyan
color).

(2) SMD pads must be either horizontal or vertical lines, it is not allowed
to
have angled lines for a pad. The lines must be drawn on a layer that belongs
to either the top or bottom surface. If you draw a line on an inner layer,
it
can't become part of an element. The way to determine which layers are on
the top or bottom surface is with the layer-groups dialog:  settings->edit
layer groupings.
Any layer checked in the same column as "solder side" or "component side" is
a surface layer where you can draw lines that can become pads. You should
draw
them on the side that the element is going to be on (an element can have
pads on both
sides e.g. edge connector).

(3) Polygons (e.g. rectangles) can't be part of an element definition.

If you convert a selection to an element with the third-button pop-up menu
the "mark"
location is establish as the position where your cursor was when you popped
up the menu,
saving a step.


harry


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