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
Mime-Version:	1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\))
Subject:	Re: [geda-user] The nature of gEDA users
X-Pgp-Agent:	GPGMail 2.5.2
From:	John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com>
In-Reply-To:	<CAC4O8c8gGbVXz5AXZ6q7CStLWueUCKnCHYDd=_9G4W8iUarFYg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:23:59 -0700
Message-Id:	<F081BE18-C6E9-4CCE-8B9F-5B8E7B4D3077@noqsi.com>
References:	<alpine DOT DEB DOT 2 DOT 00 DOT 1601180756390 DOT 9035 AT igor2priv> <alpine DOT DEB DOT 2 DOT 00 DOT 1601260416150 DOT 9035 AT igor2priv> <56A751EC DOT 8030402 AT iae DOT nl> <20160126124701 DOT 0d061912c7e078ced9d4e6cb AT gmail DOT com> <CANEvwqgs3YFnt7m8mA1DN6X2KdWbyr4zpXCVH321vDo1f7CyxA AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <201601261804 DOT u0QI4KEQ009550 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <E7D351BF-5BBB-41AC-B996-D5E27079A82C AT noqsi DOT com> <20160126211840 DOT 1566d9211a21e05d7603a928 AT gmail DOT com> <64D983DD-53E5-4290-998F-D3F0298A39A8 AT noqsi DOT com> <CAC4O8c8gGbVXz5AXZ6q7CStLWueUCKnCHYDd=_9G4W8iUarFYg AT mail DOT gmail DOT com>
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

--Apple-Mail=_A3D05DAC-CEEB-4AFF-8270-57149CE45E54
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset=windows-1252


On Jan 26, 2016, at 1:54 PM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) =
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> How exactly do you propose that they draw the hole plating that makes
> it a via, short of 3D CAD?  How to limit it's layer span?  You can
> draw whatever you want on layers, it just doesn't get you what you
> want.  Submerged pads or insulation drawing won't get you what you
> want either.
> Either some special codes have to know what via means wrt layers, or
> you need general 3D CAD.

This is correct. Pure 2D layers are not quite good enough. I do, =
however, think that 2D with a few special exceptions should suffice for =
printed circuits.  The fundamental problem with pcb as it exists is that =
it=92s a tangle of special exceptions without a clean concept of layer =
underneath.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com



--Apple-Mail=_A3D05DAC-CEEB-4AFF-8270-57149CE45E54
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
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=2qf7
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--Apple-Mail=_A3D05DAC-CEEB-4AFF-8270-57149CE45E54--

- Raw text -