Mail Archives: geda-user/2013/04/15/21:46:32
Nathan Stewart wrote:
> if you go into preferences, and set the board size, it will change the
> displayed board area. This is always rectangular, and its not just an
> artifact of our rectangular displays,
The string "Board Size" in this dialog is reminiscent, that this area did
indeed represent the board in the history of PCB. However, the recommended
way to set the board outline shifted to the outline layer. If my memory
serves me right, this was introduced in 2007.
> PCB treats the white space as
> board, and will not render components off of it.
It treats this area as a canvas.
> Outline is nothing more than a specially named layer with a convention
> for handling what would be copper or silk on any other layer.
Gerber output picks the contents of the outline layer to derive the
outline it presents in the fab.gbr file. The borders of the canvas only
appear in gerber data, if there is no outline in the outline layer. That
is, if you put a circle in the outline layer, there will be no rectangle
in any gerber file.
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