I’m having trouble getting kicad to enforce trace spacing design rules. There’s no snapping or space limits when I’m putting down a trace. I can make a funnel cake trace if I want. And I love funnel cake.
Ah ha! That works. I guess I was also thinking about the spacing outlines wrong too. It’s OK to cross the markers as long as neither pad crosses into the other’s zone.
… hmmm… spoke too soon? shouldn’t this be a drc error? Why would kicad let me to do this?
It shouldn’t. It is fixed in nightly builds versions, at least in mine:
Version: no-vcs-found-7434~57~ubuntu14.04.1
See the difference. Nightly builds has rounded corners while stable has right angle corners.
But clearance is calculated with the rounded corners algorithm in both cases.