X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.4 at av01.lsn.net From: John Griessen Subject: Re: [geda-user] The nature of gEDA layers To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com 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> <20160127091746 DOT 1c7a976c2752f913921688ac AT gmail DOT com> <20160127141334 DOT c738feb9dbeb54a7dec3dff8 AT gmail DOT com> Message-ID: <56A8F74B.8080304@ecosensory.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:58:51 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id u0RGwuNZ005012 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 On 01/27/2016 10:38 AM, Stephan Böttcher wrote: >> There is no via layer, > Yes there is, in my proposeal. > >> >a via is a composite of objects on different layers. > That is true. Including the layer that tells what is conductively > connected. This needed a new subject line. How about my proposal of the previous email, "layers correspond and represent physical planar layers, and outline is a special mask layer that acts on physical layers. Via could also be in the mask layer category -- mask layers "act on" physical definition layers... I'd like to call them that way -- mask layers physical definition layers John Griessen