Re: gEDA-user: PCB format wishlist

["Bert Timmerman" <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ethan Swint
> Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 4:06 PM
> To: gEDA user mailing list
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: PCB format wishlist
> 
> On 09/04/2010 10:19 PM, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> > I have one more suggestion: the facility to create recursive PCBs.
> > What this will look like in the file format, I dunno. But we should 
> > keep it in mind.
> >    
> Recursive PCBs could work the same way as the footprint 
> re-use: a node could contain a reference to a parent node; 
> the parent node could be a single element or itself a 
> reference to a collection of elements.
> 
> 

+1

I can  think of a "group" of {traces, vias, elements, silk text or lines} to
be linked in from an external file or to be embedded.

The analogy of embedded/unembedded symbols in gschem comes to mind.

I never have applied symbols recursively though (symbols within symbols
within symbols), other than in the form of hierarchical multisheet
schematics (symbols pointing to schematics containing symbols, pointing to
schematics containing symbols, etc.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.



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