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Re: gEDA-user: Off-by-one display



This is what is cool about this board.... Ask and somebody knows the
answer.

Thanks,

Steve Meier

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 11:18, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Well, Ideally you would want your vertexes to match or at intersect with
> > the line segments between the other polygons vertexes. But, for a gerber
> > plot I am a little unclear how a polygon is developed.  Is an aperture
> > created for every polygon or is the polygon created by sweeping a
> > smaller aperture back and forth?
> 
> PCB draws the outline and lets the photoplotter figure out how to fill
> it (G36/G37 codes).