Rounded rectangle maximum corner radius
Bug #1668020 reported by
Michal Vanco
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Committed
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Wishlist
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Seth Hillbrand |
Bug Description
For rounded rectangle pad, the radius of the corner is now specified only as a percentage of the pad width. It would be very helpful to have the possibility to specify maximum radius in mm also. IPC7351C recommends corner radius of 25% of the pad width with maximum 10mil (0.25mm). KiCad now supports only the first part of this recommendation. Of course there exists a workaround but ...
Changed in kicad: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in kicad: | |
assignee: | nobody → Seth Hillbrand (sethh) |
milestone: | none → 6.0.0-rc1 |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
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Can't the footprint designer just use a calculator to get the right radius?
I think the right place for applying footprint conventions is in the relevant library spec, e.g. https:/ /github. com/KiCad/ kicad-library/ wiki/Kicad- Library- Convention for official libraries, supporting with verification scripts e.g https:/ /github. com/KiCad/ kicad-library- utils/tree/ master/ pcb