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Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 13:52:25 -0400
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On 05/03/2013 01:32 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> The way I'd do it is a single polygon shaped like a cross.  After all,
> a rectangular fill is just a special case of a polygon.

  Hmm ok, I will try that as well and see how it turns out for me.

> But usually I just tell my mounting holes to have a larger clearance,
> since that's the only reason I usually don't want copper there.

  Well the reason I'm going down this road to begin with is the PCB fab
had a concern about my copper clearance circles extending past the edges
of the board.  I thought it was kinda nuts that they'd be worried about
that, but that's what their engineer said, and I'm about to order
thousands of these boards, so I was inclined to listen to him. ;)

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA