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On 08/01/2016 02:28 PM, Stephan Böttcher wrote:
> you could put the RF component traces on an extra layer.  During design,
> that layer would be kept separate.  For checkout the layer must be put
> into the group of the copper layer.

This kind of handling could be good and easy.
Especially if we went to attributes controlling layer by a name match and/or a group match.

And no, that could not be backward compatible...but easily orthogonal