Re: gEDA-user: pcb layer groups

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> No. This makes small garbage triangles in the end which will have to be
> replaced by breaking the polygon anyway.

If you have that many traces on a "ground plane" layer, you don't
really have a ground plane any more.

> Why? I remember attending computer graphics lecture and remember
> that time complexity of drawing of line is the same for line with 45
> deg angle as for any other angle.

I said 0/90/180/270, not 45.  Orthagonal lines are often special
cased.

> When you turn on thindraw it starts drawing garbage - pieces of
> filled polygons all around.

I've never seen that.  If you see it again, could you send me a sample
PCB file that shows it?