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Re: gEDA-user: pcb, howto partition power planes?
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:47:52 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote:
>> * Draw lines on copper with zero thickness but finite clearance.
>>
> Does this really result in legal Gerber files -- would be not so nice if
> a few manufacturers can not handle it.
I didn't check the Gerber specs. My favorite fab (Basista) did not
complain when I started to (miss) use this feature. They just rendered it
like pcb and gerbv showed on the screen.
>> If you want to completely dissect a polygon:
>>
>> * Divide the polygon with thin tracks. Parts will render invisible.
>>
>> * Let the mouse hover over the visible part of the polygon. Use the
>> command MorphPolygon(Object) to make each snippet a polygon on its
>> own.
>> Alternatively you can select the polygon and apply the variant
>> MorphPolygon(Selected)
Note to Peter Clifton:
There is a quirk in the Cairo enabled version. It does the morphing
action and removes the old polygon. But it fails to automatically draw
the newly produced polygons. I had to resort to the save-and-revert trick
to get the new polygons on the screen.
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