Symbol background color overlapping symbol body

[Theo]

Hello great forum,

First post and I absolutely love KiCad! Great update from 4 to 5!!

Recently I decided to challenge myself and try to implement USB Type-C into my design. When drawing the symbol I wanted to recreate a symbol I saw online (https://i.imgur.com/GmKTD6A.png) but I found that combining arcs and rectangles/ lines does not create a satisfying symbol. The problem for rectangles being the top and bottom line and for lines not being able to create background at all for the midpart. Is there a way to solve this?

(The overlapping pin numbers with the symbol body has already been solved, so no need to look at that)

Thanks in advance for your time!

Theo

[kevlevrone]

Thanks i tried this. Help me

[jos]

Draw the mid section with the polygon tool rather than an entire rectangle!

[Theo]

Sadly using polygons doesn’t allow me to fill the area with background color

[jos]

It does work with a three sided polygon. Single line ‘polygons’ don’t seem to connect in a way that supports foreground, background fills which looks like a software shortcoming to properly enclose irregular shapes!

I presume you do have the same rounded shape at the lower end as well. In this case you are out of options as it stands.

[jos]

[Rene_Poschl]

Take a look at the symbol for the 4001 logic chip as found in the official library.

[jos]

Kind of tedious but does the trick. Thanks for pointing out that one.