Comment 50 for bug 1251393

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Niki Guldbrand (niki-guldbrand-net) wrote : Re: [Bug 1251393] Re: Footprint Editor Lacks Edge.Cuts Layer

FYI, Kicad has moved to https://gitlab.com/kicad

And if you have a look at issue 1970 in the kicad code tree, you can
see that edge cuts will be available in the upcomming version 6
release.

https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/1970

Niki

On Sat, 2020-09-19 at 03:19 +0000, Roger Clark wrote:
> Just to add another +1 to this.
>
> I'm currently designing a PCB, where toroid inductors are recessed
> into
> the PCB, and I've had to use the trick of making a polyline on
> another
> layer, then manually editing the pretty file to move it to the edge
> cuts
> layer.
>
> In the past I've also had to manually add cuts under individual
> components on the PCB after the layout is complete, to provide extra
> electrical isolation e.g. under opto couplers and also some hall
> effect
> sensors, which have 440V on one side and 3.3V on the other.
>