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Re: gEDA-user: PCB paste layer, revisited.


DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Imagine, that you have a 431 pin BGA. Would you include 431 times
>> the same padstack in the footprint? I think one should bother with
>> the whatever shape, and size of the stencil, copper, mask, paste
>> layers. Those are just "pads".  Then we could link pads to a
>> padstack, and the padstacks into the footprint.
> 
> For sanity's sake, let's let a footprint define its pad stacks for its
> own pads, rather than trying to maintain a global cache of padstacks.
> 
> Then, a BGA footprint would have one "here's what my pads look like"
> and 431 copies of "put one here".

Yup.  Right answer.

A footprint needs to be entirely self-contained.

-dave



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