On Mar 18, 2011, at 1:32 PM, DJ Delorie <d...@delorie.com> wrote:
>
>> But at the core, they work all just the same.
>
> The "core" includes the autorouters, optimizers, DRC, exporters,
> reports, and even simple editing - we have a "hide vias" button. How
> does that work if you no longer have "vias" as an inherent type?
>
Via the via tag attached to the generic composite that the via tool made.
Sorry had to use the pun.
> PCB has a lot of tools that know a lot about how PCBs are designed.
> These tools are essential to making PCB a viable layout editor. The
> input we need at this stage is from people who design a lot of PCBs,
> so we know what kinds of abstractions make sense to expose and what
> kinds need to be hidden behind other data structures.
>
> Maybe to the rendering engines they all work the same, but saying
> "they all work the same" *in general* just isn't applicable here.
> They don't.
>
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