Re: gEDA-user: General Layers questions

[Stephan Boettcher <boettcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Kupec <martin.kupec@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 01:52:24PM -0600, John Doty wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Martin Kupec wrote:
>> 
>> > Generaly you are proposing that there should be a special type of
>> > footpring called 'via' and it should receive extra care.
>> 
>> Why single out "via" and "footprint" when they are merely members of
>> an open-ended list of possible composite objects?
>
> We need to single out 'via' so someone who want's simple board can find
> 'via' tool as everywhere. And under word 'footprint' I mean any other
> composite object.

That is up to the HID to find the composits with attribute
"type=via", and present them in a via toll selector.

And to maintein an in memory list of composits of "type=element" and akt
on those when the users asks for elements.

>> > I am ok with that, I just need to figure out how to handle mapping from
>> > footprint layers to layout layers. I don't want concept of 'top',
>> > 'inner', 'bottom' layer at all...that is too naive for me.

-- 
Stephan


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