Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:07:31PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > > > How is this done in Orcad? In Eagle? In other tools? 
> > > 
> > > Since it's an internals problem, and not a user interface problem, we
> > > have no way of knowing.
> > 
> > In PCB you cannot draw a rectangle of missing soldermask.
> > 
> > Cna you in Orcad? Or in Eagle?
> 
> Oops, sorry, I misunderstood the question.  I don't know.

probably.  Other commercial tools I've used let you do that.

As DJ said though, for PCB, the main task is to restructure things
internally to break the 8 layer barrier.  Once thats done, adding
things like a soldermask layer won't be hard.

-Dan

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