Elphel Teardrops patch for 4.0.0

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Hi.

I made some changes to the known Elphel patch for teardrops in Kicad, in order to make it work with version 4.0.0. It seems to work OK.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31742622/teardrops.patch.tar.gz

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I think you should post the patch to kicad developers listā€¦
It is a nice feature to be added to kicad :smile:

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It was submitted a while ago be the original author of the patch.

http://blog.elphel.com/2015/04/trying-out-kicad/

https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg18224.html

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It seems that there were a segmentation faultā€¦
May be now this prob has been overtaken by the new kicad codeā€¦
I would give a try to submit itā€¦

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Nice stuff. Once Iā€™m done with my current project and able to upgrade my KiCAD I have to try this as at the moment Iā€™m doing those manually, but deselecting ā€˜keep tracks at 45ā€™ and ā€˜donā€™t snap to centresā€™ is a bit cumbersome if this one here does it all :slight_smile:

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Goodļ¼I hope teardrops could be a basic funtion in the next KiCAD version.

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Teardrops make a real improvement to manufacturing yields with fine tracks and small pads. I have had to reject several boards over the years where poor drilling has nearly severed the connection. I hope the segfaulting is fixed now

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Any updates to Teardrops ??
Certainly would be nice to see in KiCad

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