Re: gEDA-user: pcb layer groups

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:48:57AM -0500, Phil Taylor wrote:
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> > > I think in the case where you're using a separate layer in a group
> > > just for a single board-sized polygon power plane (i.e. a GND plane in
> > > one color, traces on that plane in a different color), it would be
> > > very useful to be able to shut off the polygon and see only the
> > > traces.
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> I did this on an older project by simply drawing on different layers and then
> changing the grouping via text source changes to the .pcb file before output. 
> It worked fine.  Doing it this way allowed for toggling visibility.  It was a
> little slow as I remember.

It's slow even without it. And not only a little. Lucas, how fast is
your machine on which the SMD RX PCB editing was so horribly slow?

ronja.twibright.com/schematics/10M_receiver_smd.pcb

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