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Re: gEDA-user: General Layers questions
On Mar 19, 2011, at 1:20 PM, Steven Michalske wrote:
> This is what bothers me about a hole layer, un plated vs plated, the holes do not define electrical contact, the plating does.
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> Or, rivits, or the soldered wires on hand assembled multilayer boards.
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> Well with silver ink circuit printing. The hole in the sprayed on insulators does define the connectivity....
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This demonstrates a flaw in the "hole layer" concept. It doesn't actually capture the geometry. But if the layers are physical, the objects in them might have different properties. So a plated-through hole is geometrically a place in a layer that is mostly insulator, but has a conductive annulus at a particular place.
John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
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