Re: gEDA-user: [pcb] terminology

[Bert Timmerman <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dj,

FWIW, I think "keepout" should be reserved for areas "forbidden" for the
router to route traces in or scripts (disperse, auto-placement, or
whatever we can think of) to place elements in.

One question we can ask ourselves is: "on which layers do we want
"keepout"  to be active or applied ?".


I think "courtyard" could be implemented by drawing 1/100 mil
[rectangular, circular] outlines around footprints.

Maybe even with arcs/lines having a width of 0 mil/100 (or mm).

Arcs/Lines having a width of 0 are not supposed to be printed, so would
it hurt to apply them to a footprint ?

It's just that almost none of the footprints I have seen so far, contain
a "courtyard".

It could be worth a DRC ;-)

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 11:33 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Add "keepout" and "courtyard", although not yet implemented.
> 
> pcb doesn't use "courtyard".  What definition should we use?
> 
> (in fact, we don't use keepout yet either)
> 
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