Re: gEDA-user: PCB format wishlist

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:32:44AM -0600, John Doty wrote:
> 
> But maybe, in the discussion of file formats, we can come up with a
> way to describe a printed circuit board in a clean, well-factored way.
>

Well, what primitives would we need? The ones I can think of are
trace, polygon, net and drc class.

I'm not even sure that 'trace' and 'polygon' need be distinct. (Though,
by adding a bend parameter to a trace, we can obtain arcs - something
that would look pretty kludgy on a polygon.)


Andrew



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