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Subject: [geda-user] [pcb-rnd] new feature: shape generation (video) (fwd)
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Hi all,

drawing all the fancy pad shapes for our new padstacks is boring. Especially 
that majority of the padstacks need very simple shapes. To speed up work with 
non-circular padstacks, I've implemented a shape generator plugin that supports 
generating regular polygons (e.g. octagon), rounded rectange (polygon) and 
circles (zero length lines).

It can be used to generate polygons and circles on the current layer (which 
doesn't have to be a copper layer). It can be used from the command line, using 
actions regpoly(), roundrect() and circle(), but it also offers an interactive, 
non-modal dialog box using the shape() action. Interactive use is demonstated 
by the following video:

https://archive.org/details/pcb_rnd_shape


(Under the hood: the dialog box is done with the Dynamic Attribute Dialog, 
which got upgraded to support non-modal dialogs. The same dialog code works in 
all GUI HIDs (all gtk HIDs and lesstif). At the moment the shape generators and 
the CLI weights 361 SLOC, the dialog box code is 320 SLOC.)

Regards,

Igor2