Re: [Kicad-developers] Castellated edge support in v5.99

2020-07-23 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 3:42 PM jp charras wrote: > There is (since 6 months) some pad fabrication properties (see pad > properties dialog), only enabled by the advanced config. > > I just enabled this option (removed from the advanced config option.) > > Castellated pad is one of these abricatio

Re: [Kicad-developers] Castellated edge support in v5.99

2020-07-23 Thread jp charras
Le 23/07/2020 à 14:19, Jon Evans a écrit : > Local rules will be done with zones: you can give a name to a copper or > keepout zone and use it to define a rule. If you want a zone that is > only used to define a rule and has no other effect, use a keepout that > has no restrictions set. > > Regard

Re: [Kicad-developers] Castellated edge support in v5.99

2020-07-23 Thread Jon Evans
Local rules will be done with zones: you can give a name to a copper or keepout zone and use it to define a rule. If you want a zone that is only used to define a rule and has no other effect, use a keepout that has no restrictions set. Regarding castellations, I think we should study an example c

[Kicad-developers] Castellated edge support in v5.99

2020-07-23 Thread Eeli Kaikkonen
KiCad doesn't have any specific support for castellations, and doesn't need anything special because it's basically PTH pad on the edge. It works so-and-so in 5.1: it doesn't complain about pad copper which is too close to the edge, and it's even possible to add SMD pads to the footprint so that it