KiCad 5 anchor pad support

[kasbah]

Noticed this in @Junes-PhD's kicad_arbitrary_pad_example. I missed the Hackchat but it looks like KiCad 5 will support funky pad shapes which means you can better make drawings part of the circuit without breaking the rules checks. This won't work with KiCad 4 of course.

  (pad 1 smd custom (at 0 0) (size 0.001 0.001) (layers F.Cu F.Paste F.Mask)
    (zone_connect 0)
    (options (clearance outline) (anchor rect))
    (primitives
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         (xy -17.337778 11.775775) (xy -16.371865 10.917968) (xy -15.500868 10.145121) (xy -14.834812 9.554823) (xy -14.530894 9.286149)
         (xy -13.955472 8.779092) (xy -12.942245 10.707266)) (width 0))
    ))

[badgeek]

i missed hackchat too.. 6 am here... this would be good addition

[badgeek]

in kicad 4 maybe we can use zone

[kasbah]

Found a transcript of the Hackchat. Some other good tips in there too.

[Sodium-Hydrogen]

I just opened a pull adding this #105