Re: gEDA-user: Blind and buried vias?

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 25, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Bill Gatliff wrote:

> John Doty wrote:
>> On Sep 25, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Bill Gatliff wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Guys:
>>>
>>>
>>> What's the current and planned state of support for blind and/or
>>> buried
>>> vias in the gEDA system?  I got a few questions on that at the
>>> Embedded
>>> Systems Conference earlier this week...
>>>
>>
>> Well, of course that's a problem for the layout tool, so choose a
>> layout tool that supports them. "pcb" is only one of the tools gEDA
>> can export netlists to. Remember, "pcb" is a separate tool, not part
>> of gEDA. Probably very few pcb users capture schematics with anything
>> but gschem, but some (perhaps many) of us use gschem/gnetlist with
>> other back ends.
>>
>
> Can you suggest a GPL/BSD/equivalent layout tool that can do
> blind/buried vias?

I have no knowledge in this area. My point was merely that this is  
not a gEDA limitation: gEDA doesn't even have a "via" concept.

I think it very dangerous to misidentify pcb as part of gEDA, since  
gEDA's greatest strength is its ability to play nicely with many  
other tools and toolkits.

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




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