Protel 99SE: How to create a curved copper fill?

I don't have a direct answer but I have a related experience.. One time I resorted to making PCB layouts in, of all things, Corel Draw 11. :P Yup...In Corel, you get any shape you want unfortunately without all the features found in PCB apps.

One step above that is converting and importing the PCB layout file into Corel for 'fancy graphics'. But after that, it's no returning that file to the PCB layout program.

D from BC

There is an option when you select polygon plane, to use 'arcs'

In P99SE copper pours are *pours*, define a polygon with straight lines and it fills the enclosed area leaving appropriate clearances to anything that was already there.

If you want a particular shape in copper create it with track, arcs, rectangular fills. You might have to assign nets to the primitives to keep rule checking happy.

If you really want a poured fill with some circular edges then try placing arc segments to limit the pour then remove them and remember not to re-pour the polygon.

Yes and it is checked. But when I draw the polygon around a pad...well is not really "around"...I place it squared. It does not automatically round the edge around the pad ... so ... how do I get that ?

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