Is there a plugin to round coners on Board Edge

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Hi,
I’m looking for a pluging that would round all the corner of a board edge.
I want to avoid any sharp corner on my board edge, but adding an arc to each corner takes quite a long time, when the board is not a simple square.

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Two ways to manage this

  1. Use FreeCAD and the awesome stepup plugin. You can load the layout file directly into freeCAD and manipulate the board outline as a mechanically constrained sketch. This is my preferred route, even for simple rectangular PCB’s as its fully constrained

  2. FilletEdge plugin. GitHub - tywtyw2002/FilletEdge I have not tried this but it does look pretty good and looks like its what you need

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I used third :slight_smile:
I defined PCB complicated shape with LibreCAD and imported to KiCad.

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4th,
Use inkscape, draw your desired shape, save as svg (or dxf) and import

So there is a plugin to manage it within kicad OR use some external tool to draw the edge

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Naib - 4th, use inkscape, draw your desired shape, save as svg (or dxf) and import

Glad to hear this suggestion as I was wondering how best to fillet “edges of shapes”. I’ve used Inkscape for some things but can also suggest another app as well. CamBam ([http://www.cambam.co.uk/])(http://www.cambam.co.uk/) has tremendous drawing capability and editing tools including “Fillet” and exporting to DXF.

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