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On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 05:14:01PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> There's a tool in modern PCB's that lets you cut holes in the shapes
> of polygons, as in "sub-polygons that represent an arbitrary
> copper-free area".

Indeed, and it's very useful, although I've hit a few problems when
I changed the shape of the enclosing polygon and the hole intersected
the new polygon boundary (if I remember correctly).

Getting rid of a hole also seems (seemed?) pretty difficult. I remember simply
editing the .pcb file to remove all holes in a polygon before starting
again placing holes from scratch.

	Gabriel

	

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