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Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 23:07:12 +0200
From: "Cyril Hrubis (metan DOT lists AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
Subject: [geda-user] oval pins in pcb?
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Hi!
I wanted to use oval copper shape for pins on my PCB layout, but looking
into pcb editor this does not seem to be possible at all.

I tried to hack around that by adding a copper polygon in the footprint,
but it looks like the file format does not support having a copper in
footprints. And thinking about it it makes sense, since it cannot know
the layer it will belong to.

I also shortly looked into the pcb source code, but I do not see how
this could be added easily enough. I suppose that we would have to add
two more string flags, something as "oval_horiz" and "oval_vert", but
then it looks like there are too many special cases all over the place
that would need to be adjusted.

Or is there a better way?

-- 
Cyril Hrubis