Re: gEDA-user: Difficulty in border areas

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:11:53PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > I also ran into trouble with DSUB connectors and the silk screen
> > trying to place them at the edge of PCB. So this feature request is
> > pretty high on my wish list :-) Yeah, I know - I should find the time
> > and start coding...
> 
> It's so easy to just make the work area bigger than the board and have
> an "outline" layer that I doubt this will get addressed soon, if at
> all.
> 
> If this becomes a popular thing to do, we might need to tweak the
> autoroute and autoplace routines to stay within the given outline.

Or the place could be made infinite like in gschem.
You would just have another layer called "board" where you would define
your rectangle (or your favourite weird shape).

I know it's difficult to code ;-)

Cl<