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Re: gEDA-user: General Layers questions

John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mar 18, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Stephan Boettcher wrote:
>
>> Except, I see no need to specify any insulating layers here.
>
> "I see no need" is exactly the kind of thinking that produces an
> inflexible, limited tool. I see *every* need to base the description
> on geometry, so that the tool's limits are defined by necessity and
> not by the limited imagination of any particular group of developers.

Nothing prevents that you define insulator layers, and include shapes on
these layers in your vias and elements.  But for simple layout work its
not needed.  I did not miss them, yet.

-- 
Stephan


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