Re: gEDA-user: Schematic Capture to dxf File - using gEDA, Inkscape, and pstoedit

[Ben Jackson <ben@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:20:34PM -0800, Dave N6NZ wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Ben Jackson wrote:
> > 
> > I have been thinking about how to do improved isolation routing.
> 
> How do you differentiate between pads that must be a certain shape, like for an SMT capacitor, and islands that simply need to be separated?

We're talking about issues of parasitic capacitance here?  I wasn't
worrying about those issues.  A SMT part would connect to two different
nets and thus the two pads would be isolated.  The way I envision it there
would be a line cut halfway between the two pads (width somewhat out of
our control because it is due to the depth of cut and the V-profile bit).

> >  If you want to save something like that directly from
> > PCB, though, the polygon code could do all of your Inkscape steps
> > internally.
> 
> Ahhh.... so... does that mean the polygon code could be easily tweaked to produce the vector outlines of all the pads on the paste layer? That would be 95% of what I need for laser cutting solder stencils.

The polygon code is fully generic.  It can do what you describe (in fact,
it does, it just probably doesn't output in the format you want).  But
it can also do the things you did in Inkscape (union areas, etc)

-- 
Ben Jackson AD7GD
<ben@xxxxxxx>
http://www.ben.com/


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