Guys,
I'm making a planar PCB antenna. So, I have two polygons which are
essentially ~200mm x 15mm rectangles with a 45 degree chamfer on one
corner on each shape. I drew these shape on the top copper layer with
the polygon tool. When I generate gerber files they warn me that the
shapes on signals N$2 and N$3 (the two polygons) will generate large
gerber files, and in fact I get about a ~450kb gerber file.
For the life of me I can't see why this should be the case, each polygon
is simply defined by five x,y coordinates which are all nice integer
numbers in mm. The application I'm using to read this gerber data is
having issues with this size gerber file.
On a related subject - the two polygons are mirror images reflected
across the vertical axis. I thought that I could just draw one polygon
and then mirror it. Unfortunately, mirroring also flips it to the
bottom layer of the board. Is there a way to mirror an object and have
it stay on the original layer? It not this would be a nice feature to
have.
-Michael