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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 17:34:25 +0200
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 17:05:42 +0200
"Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> I just wrote something about a pin object. As is know in pcb there is
> Pin[...] and Pad[...]. With a pin object there would be inside the
> pin object a drilled plated hole with circular copper on the
> appropiate layer. The Pin[...] and Pad[...] may still be useful for
> shorthand notation but be able to use the ordinay drawing objects is
> more general for example to draw an antenna.

To be honest, I would not mix the old and the new data structure.

The parser is almost ready to parse an old gEDA/pcb file.

> It might be better to use ordinary drawing objects inside pins
> instead of special drawing objects because it keep down number of
> different primitives and to export gerber files you output all
> drawing objects on a particular layer regardless if they are directly
> on pcb, inside a footprint or insida a pin.

When it comes to gerber output, you just query the relation table, and set
the layer_id to something, and you get the all the object that is on that
particular layer. Simple.

Lev

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