Re: gEDA-user: pcb question : same structure several times on board

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:40:17PM -0400, 9000 VAX wrote:
> > For pcb, here's a big reason I'd like to see hierarchy support.  Suppose
> > you have a something like a combline filter.  The layout is now truely
> > a critical part of the circuit.  It would be nice to lay that out as a
> > subcircuit and be able to move the filter as a block around.
> 
> How about drawing a footprint of that block and treating it like a
> single package.

thats the basic idea except currently a footprint (element) only has
pads, pins, and silk.  You  really want to also have traces, polygons,
vias, and optionally a keepout.  I don't think this should be hard,
its just a matter of carving out time.  Also, there is the question of 
the best way to handle the connection scanning.  

-Dan


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