> DJ Delorie wrote: >> Back to? I don't recall it ever being that way. PCB uses filled >> rectangles when the pads are square, and lines for all other pads. > > Yup. It used to -- although it may have been a pretty ancient version, > I'll admit that. > >> You could write a HID just to export the paste layer "your way" ;-)
I'm interested in learning the plugin and HID writing parts of the pcb code. Any guidelines or description of flow and variables name-to-purpose mapping appreciated. I'll be making time to read the code this week. One of my outcomes is to get a no-footprint-required conductive printed jumper netlist. What stops that now is that a via has a drill hole, and a pad doesn't connect two layers. With ink jumpers, the overlap of top copper and the jumper layer creates connectivity with no via needed. I want a smooth way to get that connectivity with a round pad or hole-free via that has no pin number associated, and also for a pad of a resistive footprint that does have a pin number associated, but no hole. I prefer to deal with all such layers inside pcb where running a DRC is easy, not as a gerber macro only. John Griessen -- Ecosensory Austin TX _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
