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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] pcb file format (functions to walk thru by different properties)
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:41 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> This, or it can be done by overrides. Like "import the footprint,
>> then add this text label" or "import this footprint, then make pad
>> 22 rounded".
>
> This would be ideal but messy to implement.  Sketchup does it the
> other way; you either share a part or you have your own copy, and it
> worked OK for me so I figured it might work OK for pcb.

Carrying that method all the way up the code would be a mess to add now.
However it might be a function you could add to the file format. Of
course there are more important things to do and it would mean
creating a slightly incompatible file format to what we already
have...

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