Re: gEDA-user: [pcb] HIDs and plugins

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Back to?  I don't recall it ever being that way.  PCB uses filled
>> rectangles when the pads are square, and lines for all other pads.
> 
> Yup.  It used to -- although it may have been a pretty ancient version, 
> I'll admit that.
> 
>> You could write a HID just to export the paste layer "your way" ;-)

I'm interested in learning the plugin and HID writing parts of the pcb code.
Any guidelines or description of flow and variables name-to-purpose mapping appreciated.
I'll be making time to read the code this week.

One of my outcomes is to get a no-footprint-required conductive printed jumper netlist.
What stops that now is that a via has a drill hole, and a pad doesn't connect two layers.
With ink jumpers, the overlap of top copper and the jumper layer creates connectivity
with no via needed.  I want a smooth way to get that connectivity with a round pad or hole-free via
that has no pin number associated, and also for a pad of a resistive footprint that does have a pin number
associated, but no hole.

I prefer to deal with all such layers inside pcb where running a DRC is easy, not as a gerber macro only.

John Griessen
-- 
Ecosensory   Austin TX


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