X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 207.224.51.38 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_CBE05D3F-D4A5-4311-8A8D-D6E11ED7BA06"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: [geda-user] [pcb-rnd] up next: subcircuits (a.k.a. footprint model redesign) X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail From: John Doty In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 09:17:24 -0600 Message-Id: <15FE4BFC-B81C-4AC6-B656-0E0DAED7A0D3@noqsi.com> References: To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) 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 --Apple-Mail=_CBE05D3F-D4A5-4311-8A8D-D6E11ED7BA06 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On May 30, 2017, at 8:08 AM, Roland Lutz wrote: > I'm not actively doing PCB layout right now and haven't ever used = blind or buried vias, so maybe my opinion shouldn't be weighed to = heavily here, however: both "professional" electronic engineers I talked = to which were considering switching to PCB for layout told me that the = inability to use blind and buried vias was the mayor show stopper for = them. >=20 >=20 All my recent designs have needed blind vias. But consider the following = analogy: I would consider a numerical programming language that couldn=92t = evaluate a polynomial to be fundamentally defective. But I would also = consider a programming language that needed a special feature to = evaluate polynomials to be fundamentally defective. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_CBE05D3F-D4A5-4311-8A8D-D6E11ED7BA06 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJZLY0FAAoJEF1Aj/0UKykRuC0P/iVORr7gx1DdVPczMzALFlUt OauGvKWJDPvse/AwZJArZkkjsBrC+LjDRsVXdkCkXBzsm7UpCvcLu+AywbQIhIT3 gfXajO8Nr1SZVwpTogZdFFr6UA0HnGKbtxWsHriIE+escaUU4jLeevQ9CRndsLD3 ALM7d5z2BgKMld2bcXZavsj4OEpzPR8Q9U40oIe0lujJ4Gg7i4pqBV75QXGqaB54 S0Sw/rAYAGfxVb3589VwVD16S7c1hW18N6YbbqGVFuVqEZNSqRB/qKAl7t9aleVG c9X1kg24qD8xWopH2BaXhCi1ja3VSv2TzNfei+RO5U1NTG6ZoC2F4ee4+5qppfU7 Jnx9bkmQn+YZa3SDmLYH6PkgQ8hYHtNHT1Q4bQ0RTMuTKd7Nro5fq1rQ7OaEbRFv e/4BqHJg9H7M4NGYIG7mdghXq/BAvEKtS7pqkD5f7lRE6BN+wdpvt9suDx0luv7z r8CYCOfkGgs3AGRjbZVogkbH1wK0RKJJSuVU9uJfs1kl2oXDW/j074AZzPE5bpKV 7hsOm3pFUhdg485Zgl6R2RBDWVdM332h+bOcX494l5eR5OdcKmlHCV8U8M+BL+Vy Bd+D0+XBOYhN5P1b/Mhgfedu+/gF1z5H2+mZUzFFt/3/bOF2FQ78fWLNU+vWTwte iI0vYKidJ4RjfOTxd270 =TMDW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_CBE05D3F-D4A5-4311-8A8D-D6E11ED7BA06--