Re: gEDA-user: General Layers questions

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 18, 2011, at 5:25 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:

> You don't drill through ink.  You drill through what the ink is *on*.
> It's a semantic issue.  If you want a spot where ink is missing, you
> add an anti-circle there.  It's different than a physical hole.  It's
> still a circle that removes things, but since we're designing a pcb
> layout program, the semantic difference matters.

It is the exporter's job to understand drilling. For geometry capture, all you need to know is the shape. Modules with no "need to know" should not know.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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