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Re: gEDA-user: Copper-free area in footprint

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From: John Luciani <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:32:08 -0400
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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Tamas Szabo <sza2king@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My best idea is, that I do it by pads which have a zero width and a
> specified clearance. Unfortunately, those will have a rounded corner, so
> rectangular corner seems impossible (I can reduce the radius, if I make it
> from more pieces, but it never will be zero).

A zero width pad may fail the DRC. Being able to specify keepouts
would be a welcome addition to the footprint file format.

I use the silkscreen to provide keepout hints. Not ideal but it works.

(* jcl *)

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