Allowing for putting keepouts in the footprints is a very important addition to whatever gets decided, but what about separating placement keepouts from trace keepouts? That is, a footprint (such as the battery mount mentioned previously) with a requirement not to place any parts between the tabs, but traces are fine? Unfortunately, though, it'd wind up like the silk layer issue - that is, they'd only be needed (or relevant, that is) on the top and bottom layers of the board.)
I suppose it's a question that could simply be covered with a design review or such, but I know I've made board errors in the past that would likely have been cleaned up with a simple "hey - you can't put a part there..." note from the DRC...
BTW, you've all got a really great tool going! I've used it for several designs now, and haven't had a (tool related) problem yet.
Thanks! -Jon On 9/11/2010 11:24 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
My thoughts were that each drawing layer (copper, silk, keepout, whatever) could belong to a specific physical layer, "top", "bottom" "all inner", or "all". I suppose we'd need an "all outer" for orthogonality. The top/bottom magic are needed to map footprints on import, but I suspect things like silk and mask will end up in top/bottom instead of a specific layer like 0 or 3. Drawing layers that belong to the same physical layer are in the same layer group (duh). _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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