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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 23:45:21 +0100
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On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 15:57 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 01/13/2014 11:55 AM, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> > I think you are one of the persons who have really used PCB program in
> > the last 4 years (I did not, maybe DJ did) -- have you ever noticed the
> > polygon bug reported some days ago by Gabriel Paubert? There seems to be
> > no reply from other people, so my impression that no one is using PCB
> > currently is supported unfortunately. I myself have no idea about
> > polygon handling and gerber generation, it was my assumption that that
> > was working correctly. Yesterday I found a problem report related to
> > polygon dicer from 2008
> > http://t14292.cad-geda-development.cadtalk.us/yet-another-dicer-bug-t14292.html
> 
>   I've gotta jump in on this topic.  I've produced about thirty
> commercial boards in the past 2.5 years with PCB, nearly all of which
> have at least a few QFPs on them.  I have not, at least to my knowledge,
> run into this bug.
> 
>                -Dave
> 

Good to hear that a few people are still using PCB, some even for
commercial boards. Personally I do not really care about if someone ever
may use my router, but as the project is on my homepage, someone may ask
me: Why do you work on a router for a program that absolutely no one is
using any more. Now I can point that people to this thread ;-)

Have you been able to test the supplied PCB board file of Gabriel
Paubert? Maybe he has corrupted the file in some way? I was able to load
that file and indeed saw that bug on screen, I still have not done a
carefully file format review. I think I should do it. He said that he
saw the bug also in the gerbers, so it may be a serious problem. My
first idea was that it may be related to the nm conversion or the GL
drawing introduced by Peter C.

Best regards,

Stefan Salewski