Model slotted (oblong) THT holes as stadiums, not circles

The drill's y dimension was discarded (padstack.drill.diameter.x only),
so a milled slot became a round hole of its x size - contact rings,
drill mouths and lead cones painted circles larger than the oblong pad
itself, and the cone was skipped outright (pad_min <= drill).

Slots now keep their true stadium shape, rotated with the pad (KiCad
CCW, y down): Electrode/ViaLink carry the end-cap offset vector,
drill_nm becomes the slot WIDTH, and a shared slot_distance() reduces
to the plain radius for round holes. The barrel wall ring, mouth
coverage, cone taper and the solver's attachment search all follow the
slot; barrel_resistance uses the stadium perimeter and bore area. The
stitching-coat fallback becomes a capsule along the slot (inscribed
disc when the axis is unknown) instead of a largest-dimension disc.
Slot fields round-trip through the JSON dumps.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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worth far more than the foil, so this is conservative. The pad face
gets the average-thickness solder coat (exact pad shape) and the
protruding-lead cone (see barrel contacts below; on oblong pads the
cone tapers within the inscribed circle). Whether a hole is a via or
cone tapers to the pad's short dimension). **Slotted (oval) holes**
keep their true stadium shape: the barrel wall, drill mouth, contact
ring and lead cone all follow the slot (rotated with the pad), and
the barrel conducts over the slot's real perimeter/bore area — not a
circle of the slot's long dimension. Whether a hole is a via or
a THT pad, the owning footprint's side, and its **Do not populate**
flag are all read from KiCad. **DNP pads** get an **open hole** and
a plating-only barrel, no joint. At f > 0 the thickness scaling is
@@ -159,7 +163,8 @@ SWIG API. Requires KiCad **10.0.1+**.
physically enters through the lead/wire soldered into the hole, so
the spreading resistance across the pad and surrounding pour is part
of the result (both contact models; verified against
R = ρ/(π·t)·acosh(d/2a) for two circular contacts on a sheet). A
R = ρ/(π·t)·acosh(d/2a) for two circular contacts on a sheet).
Slotted holes inject along the stadium-shaped slot wall. A
soldered **THT joint** additionally assumes the **hole is filled with
solder** (core in parallel with the plating) and the **pad face on
the solder side carries an average-thickness solder coat**