On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:28:53AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > but we've still got a user-interface problem. > > We're used to that. > > > So what happens for those users? > > They get exactly one composite, which ends up acting just like what we > have today - one outline, one set of drills, all copper/insulator are > on the one plain-built board. > > In our previous example, you'd get (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...) >
Okay, but where does that leave us in terms of having multiple drawing layers on the same physical surface? > "The" pcb is a composite anyway, this just means that pcb's internal > "PCB" global variable is a composite. Paste buffers, footprints, etc > - those are separate composites. > > Of course, no reason why PCB couldn't keep multiple top-level > composites in memory - we already do, with paste buffers - but editing > them is the tricky part. Gschem avoids the problem by only editing > one schematic at a time in a common window. > It would be nice to support multiple .pcbs open at once, and to allow copy/pasting between them. Andrew _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
