Re: gEDA-user: PCB format wishlist

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 6, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Andrew Poelstra wrote:

> But I'm worried that by dropping down to basically a vector
> drawing, we're going too far.

The difference isn't so much in the primitives, but the machinery of composition of those into higher level things. Consider gschem. At the GUI level it's basically a vector drawing program. But with some simple mechanisms to compose drawings of drawings (symbols, sources, etc) and establish relations between objects both locally (attachment) and globally (netname), it becomes a schematic capture program. An ordinary vector drawing program cannot do that job.

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




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