Re: gEDA-user: Electrode footprint

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Not everything in PCB can be included in an element.  
> 
> Is there a reason for this restriction? Maybe some long grown
> internal structure that would require extensive refactorization?

Yeah, elements are not just classes of PCBs, they have their own data
structure and support routines.  It would be nice if they were just
sub-pcbs, it would allow many more things, like subassemblies.

> Vias turn into pins. Copper lines and rectangles convert into pads.
> I never realized, that rectangles can be included too. This makes
> SMD footprint creation much more intuitive :-)

Yup.  I added that myself in the near past, because all the spec
sheets I had measured things that way.  So I added code to look for
rectangles and convert them too.  If you explode an element, it
converts back to lines though.


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