Henner, AFAIK, no one is working on any more changes to the polygon tool. I am planning on announcing the stable 5 feature freeze sometime over the Thanksgiving holiday so if it's not ready by then, it will have to wait for the next development version.
Cheers, Wayne On 11/21/2017 12:42 AM, Henner Zeller wrote: > Hi, > So polygons are very neat as they employ the nice polygon drawing > features we are used to from zone drawing [*1]. > > A missing feature here is to _not_ have them filled but simply an > outline. Why ? This would be _very_ useful to draw Edge.Cuts. > Currently, the only way is to draw single lines, which are then hard > to adjust later, as they all fall apart into separate lines, and have > to be edited manually. > > Now, if that could be drawn with the polygon tool, that would remove a > huuuuge pain having to deal with outlines (and yes, I know the usual > advice to draw that separately and import as DXF. But what if I could > just do simple polygons directly ?). > > Also what we could get for almost free then: Chamfers and Fillets. I > like to have boards with rounded corners [*2], but currently this is > of course a torture to do manually and and dread it every time it > comes to that part of the project: draw a rectangle with the line > tool. Do circles in the corners and manually calculate where the > center and the start point is, shorten the lines accordingly to match > the length shorter the radius. Do that on all four corners. That > easily takes several minutes and high concentration. And god forbid > one wants to change that again later ... > > Now how wounderful that would be if that could be done with the > Polygon tool and I just choose to have a fillet or camfer. If this is > something nobody is working on yet and if people think this is a good > idea, I might have a look over the Thanksgiving days. > > Cheers, > Henner. > > > [*1] also see my mail before [All kinds of glitches], Polygons as-is > are currently broken and maybe the concept should be merged with the > zone ? > > [*2] > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hzeller/quadrigotion/master/img/tmc2660-quad-render.jpg > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
