No Option For Pad Round-off In V2021 Edition?

I must agree with what is said about the lack of place & size round off. I understand that it is not IPC compliant but it sure was handy to match grid !

Another issue I see with the lack of this functionality : different part manufacturer often describe slightly different tolerances for the same packages. With lands rounded to 0.01mm, we will end up with a lot of different footprints for the same package. One for the (let's say) Infineon Part, one for the On Semi part...

For exemple : 

The demo SOD package in Footprint Expert has a pin width (b dimension) between 0.55mm and 0.75mm. It gives this padstack : r77_87m97_107r19

If I change the pin dimension to 0.56mm-0.74mm (0.01mm difference on both dimensions), the padstack now is :  r77_86m97_106r19

I think that this will create a lot of duplicates in our footprint library because unattentive designers will not take the 2 seconds needed to check if the first padstack could acomodate the second pin size (smaller in all it's dimensions).

I don't know if I am easily understandable.

It is great that we can change it using the "Use mfr. recommended pattern" option though. But I know some designers that will not take the 30 seconds needed to do the change. We sold them an "automatic footprint creation software", they will want it to be fully automated :p 

Another slight issue I have found with the way values are rounded (using the Decimal Place Accuracy option) is in the naming of the padstacks.

If we use the demo QFN (with thermal tab) with a Decimal Place Accuracy of min:2; max:2, the name given to the padstack is r73_30m93_50r7. But the padstack is actually a 0.74mmx0.30mm rectangle (not 0.73mmx0.30mm). 

I think this is due to the fact that, when Decimal Place Accuracy is set to min:2, max:3, the actual length of the padstacks is 0.737mm. That gives the r73_30m93_50r7 naming. But that naming isn't updated when using min:2, max:2 accuracy. I rebooted the software but the issue is still there.

Anyway, thank you for that great software. It offers tremendous flexibility and the user interface is great in my opinion.

Is that the calculation now? if so, I need that in roundoff 0.05 (to do manual it wouldn't be correct)

Here I did my best.

Is there really no other way to calculate with roundoff 0.05 in the first place, like it did in old version?

Of course its compliant to round up padsizes and round up or down pin positions and gaps between pads. the goal is to have less padstack geometries and nice pin postiongrid for easier fanout and routing. A good librarian and a skilled layouter will like that. All our lib is in 0.05mm steps (only some big CPUs will have 0.001mm accuracy, but for them i dont need that tool)

Interesting that I am not the only one who miss that feature for clean library build up. I am disappointed that the feature is gone and that you dont understand why its important. the manual input for manufacturer recommendation will not help with that topic, becasue you can type in every value

But yes I will go back to the old version of the tool, thanks for that advice. thats the solution for that.