Rounded Rectangle and D-shaped Pads for Altium

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   Rectangle, round, and oblong pads come through OK, but rounded rectangle and D-shaped are atrociously disfigured. I am following the recommended Altium Designer output settings as found in the help files. 
Perhaps PADS 2005.2 and 2007.0 do not support these pad shapes, but these results are pretty bad. The pad shape is manually created with poor resolution, along with the expanded solder mask shape. 
At least the rounded rectangle shape has been supported by Altium Designer for all the years I've used it, so I would prefer to not have to restrict myself to rectangle shapes then do an additional touch-up step.

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Ryan Rutledge Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Active User Joined: 05 Feb 2014 Status: Offline Points: 24	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ryan Rutledge Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Topic: Rounded Rectangle and D-shaped Pads for Altium Posted: 12 Mar 2014 at 3:19pm
	Rectangle, round, and oblong pads come through OK, but rounded rectangle and D-shaped are atrociously disfigured. I am following the recommended Altium Designer output settings as found in the help files. Perhaps PADS 2005.2 and 2007.0 do not support these pad shapes, but these results are pretty bad. The pad shape is manually created with poor resolution, along with the expanded solder mask shape. At least the rounded rectangle shape has been supported by Altium Designer for all the years I've used it, so I would prefer to not have to restrict myself to rectangle shapes then do an additional touch-up step.



chrisa_pcb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 29 Jul 2012 Location: San Diego Status: Offline Points: 772	Post Options Post Reply Quote chrisa_pcb Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Mar 2014 at 5:02pm
	Hi Ryan, Make sure you select PADS Layout V9.3 ASCII so that it uses native rounded rectangles. Rounded Rectangle pad shape were introduced in PADS V9.1. So if you're using PADS Layout V2005.2, rounded rectangle didn't exist yet. If you're using Altium 13.3 or 14.2 set your default CAD output to PADS Layout V9.3. That is what our new V2014 Library Expert will default to.

Ryan Rutledge Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Active User Joined: 05 Feb 2014 Status: Offline Points: 24	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ryan Rutledge Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 2014 at 1:07pm
	I have FPX 2013.20. Is this the latest?

Nick B Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 02 Jan 2012 Status: Offline Points: 1908	Post Options Post Reply Quote Nick B Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 2014 at 1:45pm
	Yes, it's the latest release.
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Ryan Rutledge Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Active User Joined: 05 Feb 2014 Status: Offline Points: 24	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ryan Rutledge Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 2014 at 2:21pm
	Thank you for the correct settings. They worked nicely.