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From: "Richard Rasker (rasker AT linetec DOT nl) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: [geda-user] Pcb: Automatic clearance between polygons?
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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:06:47 +0100
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Perhaps a stupid pcb question that probably has been answered a long 
time ago already, but I still wondered: Is there a way to get clearance 
around a polygon where it overlaps with another polygon on the same 
layer? I want to make a dozen identical high-current connections using 
as much copper surface as available, and polygons are much better suited 
for this than thick traces. But I also want to fill remaining space with 
a ground-connected polygon, of course without overlapping (and thus 
shorting) the smaller polygons.

Is there a flag to make a polygon behave like a pad/pin or trace in this 
respect, so that another polygon automatically maintains a clearance gap 
around the 'flagged' one? Or is manually carving out the circumference 
of the smaller polygons (e.g. using the Polygon Hole function) still the 
only option? Because this latter can be a bit tedious -- and it would of 
course be nice if there's a simple way to do this that I failed to find 
so far.

Thanks in advance,

Richard Rasker