Re: gEDA-user: Converting square/circular pads to oval(elliptical) pads

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 01:43 -0700, jeffrey antony wrote:
> Hi...
>    When ever I place components on the board, what I get is
>    square/circular pads. But while soldering boards, it  is little easier
>    with oval pads.
>    Is there any method to convert square/circular pads to oval pads?
>    Jeffrey Antony
>    http://jeffrey.co.in/

On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 11:55 +0200, Duncan Drennan wrote:
>Remove the "square" flag from the pad definition. You can edit the
> .pcb file directly, or in the GUI select the elements that you want to
> change and type ":ChangeSquare(Selected)"
> 

You can not direct convert circular pads to extended oval pads.
There are some through-hole footprints with oval pads available, i.e.
from http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-footprint-list.html. But these
are build from two overlapping pads, one circular with the hole, and one
rectangular with round caps.




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