Add new layers for top/bottom package outlines #1198
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Summary
This PR adds two new package layers "Top Package Outlines" and "Bottom Package Outlines". They are intended to draw the exact outline of a package as a single, closed, zero-width polygon. Initially I struggled with adding even more package layers since this makes footprint creation more complicated. But it turned out that these layers are really valuable since they allowed to implement the following improvements:
And in the end, a footprint can still be drawn without adding these polygons - you just won't benefit from these features then.
Other Changes
GUI
How to generate package outlines and courtyards:
Note that the generated package outline is just a rectangular bounding box around all pads and documentation polygons.
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