Removing parts of a circle in footprint editor

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I am trying to get rid of the arcs of the circle between the two parallel lines, is there some kind of eraser facility in kicad to help me with this?

Thanks

P.S I am trying to make the footprint of this component:

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Why not just draw arcs where you want them and then delete the circle?

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Isn’t there any other way to do this?

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Are those copper areas (=pads)?
If yes, you’re out of luck afaik - no concave outline definitions for pads (yet).
You have to approximate it with several smaller pads.
And yes, there is no ‘fill area inside those lines with copper function’ in the footprint editor (=arbitrary outlines).
You can import such things via bitmap2component though… but it’s not a common way of doing this…

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Thanks, it turned out I don’t actually need to draw those arcs. Two rectangular pads sufficed as there is nothing in between the parallel lines or the circle to worry about.

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If you want to go fancy it’s not that hard to, in the gerber step, intersect your two rectangles with a circular pad to remove the extra copper. If you leave a circular pad to be cut out on a layer you won’t be using for anything else, it’s quite straight forward to combine the gerber files. This assumes there will be no traces running in there between.