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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:16:44 -0500
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Non-plated pin/via with copper annulus
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On 08/31/2015 09:10 AM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> In case you go manual....
>
> You could place 4 single pins manually (2x2), then copy the whole block to place 3 more times and you ahve 4x4; repeat, and with 3
> more copies you have 8x8, etc. If you chose the copy origin point at the -1;-1 grid point relative, it's pretty fast.
>
> If it's just a switch board with no components and only vertical/horizontal lines on the two sides, I wouldn't make schematics,
> just do it all in PCB.
>
> I'd write a script only if I needed a series of boards with different geometries.


Sure.  That kind of arraying is often done in custom chip layout.
there are only so many tools you could get used enough to matter.
Or. . . "Never make a one shot tool."