X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com From: geda AT psjt DOT org (Stephan =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=B6ttcher?=) To: "Nicklas Karlsson \(nicklas.karlsson17\@gmail.com\) \[via geda-user\@delorie.com\]" Subject: Re: [geda-user] The nature of gEDA users References: <56A751EC DOT 8030402 AT iae DOT nl> <20160126124701 DOT 0d061912c7e078ced9d4e6cb AT gmail DOT com> <201601261804 DOT u0QI4KEQ009550 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <20160126233332 DOT dec2f06f5c74354a3841989c AT gmail DOT com> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:14:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20160126233332.dec2f06f5c74354a3841989c@gmail.com> (Nicklas Karlsson's message of "Tue, 26 Jan 2016 23:33:32 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk "Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" writes: >> > But the first steps should not be "implement b/b vias" or "allow more >> > than one pair of outer layers". It should be something like "express >> > Elements and Vias as subclasses of generic containers that can include >> > anything". >> >> +1 >> >> John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. >> http://www.noqsi.com/ >> jpd AT noqsi DOT com > > I am probably on same track. A via or hole is: drilled cut out thru > all layers with plating No. A via is a collection of circles, negative circles, thermals on conductive layers, and a circle on a layer connecting the copper circles. The technology and DRC ruleset knows that the circles shall be drilled at slightly larger diameter and filled with plating, and check the copper circles accordingly. But that is several orders up in the abstractions stack. -- Stephan