Re: gEDA-user: General Layers questions

[Jared Casper <jaredcasper@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:44 PM, DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> But what if I want a silk layer to just be a copy of a copper layer?
>
> This is a different category of problem - the CAM job.  Typically,
> you'd have a file that describes how to map design layers to output
> layers.  In that file, you'd say "this copper layer should be output
> as a silk layer also".  Such a file could also say "copper objects
> with the also-paste attribute should be drawn on the paste layer" etc.
>

Okay, but you are just moving the layer/object tags out to a separate
file and process, the layers are still "tagged" so some extent
somewhere.  But I get your point.

> At the design/edit level, that layer is a copper layer.  Note to John:
....
> And DRC freaks out because it has two separate incompatible sets of
> rules to apply to it.
>

But if I am doing that (just to extend this silly example too far), I
would want the DRC checker to ensure that it obeys both the rules for
copper _and_ for silk.  If those are incompatible sets then I have to
deal with the failed DRC for one of them because I am asking the tool
to do something that doesn't agree with with the DRC rules I have
asked it to check, but I would still like to know that is what I'm
doing.

Jared


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