Re: gEDA-user: Dummy elements in gschem

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:59:33PM +0000, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a shielding box in PCB as an element (because the silk lines and holes
> have to be kept in precise distances). Every time I run gsch2pcb, the box
> gets removed.
> 
> What is the ideologically correct solution to this? Make a dummy element
> in the gschem, or break the PCB element apart (and risk it's geometry being
> accidentally broken)?
> 

I make mounting holes be elements in my schematic.  So you can guess that
my answer is to make an element out of it and put it in the schematic.

-Dan

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