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Re: gEDA-user: GL pcb bugs and a question re the log/library window, gerber outline output



On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:21:08 +0000
Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 11:29 +0100, Denis Grelich wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:34:15 -0800
> > Ben Jackson <ben@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:56:44PM +0100, Denis
> > Grelich wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > First there's a problem with polygon clearance.
> > > 
> > > I think that might be a GL display bug.  There was a thread about
> > > that recently.  Try exporting your layout to PostScript and view
> > > that (you can convert with ps2pdf and use acroread if you want).
> > > If the planes look fine there, they will look fine in the gerbers.
> > 
> > I've tried it with an older version of PCB (20081128) and there I
> > have pretty much the same behaviour. The exported gerber files
> > yield those artifacts as well, so I guess it's an issue with the
> > polygon clearance code, not just a rendering issue. 
> 
> Try again now.(with git HEAD, or the GL branch if you re-fetch it)
> I've just commited what I believe to be a fix for the problem.

The artifacts seem to be gone, the crashes too. I still get the
disappearing polygon, though.


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