Hi Dj, FWIW, I think "keepout" should be reserved for areas "forbidden" for the router to route traces in or scripts (disperse, auto-placement, or whatever we can think of) to place elements in.
One question we can ask ourselves is: "on which layers do we want "keepout" to be active or applied ?". I think "courtyard" could be implemented by drawing 1/100 mil [rectangular, circular] outlines around footprints. Maybe even with arcs/lines having a width of 0 mil/100 (or mm). Arcs/Lines having a width of 0 are not supposed to be printed, so would it hurt to apply them to a footprint ? It's just that almost none of the footprints I have seen so far, contain a "courtyard". It could be worth a DRC ;-) Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 11:33 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Add "keepout" and "courtyard", although not yet implemented. > > pcb doesn't use "courtyard". What definition should we use? > > (in fact, we don't use keepout yet either) > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
