Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in footprints

["phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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


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