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From: "Gabriel Paubert (paubert AT iram DOT es) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
To: "Richard Rasker (rasker AT linetec DOT nl) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Pcb: Automatic clearance between polygons?
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 04:06:47PM +0100, Richard Rasker (rasker AT linetec DOT nl) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> 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.
> 

Not with PCB as far as I can tell. 

This can be done with pcb-rnd.

	Gabriel