gEDA-user: Wishfull thinking, one more...

[John Griessen]

anne Vanhoest wrote:
as I am developing
> my PCBs with very basic tools I cannot make super-fine tracks and must
> keep a decent copper to copper distance.  In the past I use to draw oblong
> pins, narrow enough to allow a track between two pins of a typical IC
> socket. Any chances to see this option in future PCB developments?

We can make round ended track pins now...  not an oval, but in a pinch,
for prototype purposes, and ready to do now, we can also superimpose pads
and give them the same number and they are "as one" -- allowing a lumpy
semmi oval pad to be created today.

Have you seen DJ's plugin for teardrop track ends in PCB?  I bet there's
not too far to go with that plugin as a starting point to get smooth oval pins...

John Griessen