On 29 January 2016 at 20:31, Russell Oliver <roliver8...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a crazy thought related to having the board capture orphan pads under an > parent footprint, conceptually what about a pcb being represented as a > hierarchy of footprints.
>From what I understand most elements of a board can be included in > footprints except for tracks. If tracks could be included as part of a > "footprint" would it not be possible to export a group of footprints and > tracks as a new reusable section of already laid out components. > Sounds really great to me. I think there are issues with the DRC which is why tracks and edges are not allowed in footprints. Just glancing over the netlist format, it seems like it should allow a similar breakdown. I am a bit out of the loop, are there any plans on a schematic file format update? If so having this sort of feature in mind (and tying in the schematic) would be excellent.
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