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	from Traylor Roger on Wed, 4 Jul 2012 16:44:42 -0700)
Subject: Re: [geda-user] pcb work flow question
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> I have a quick question about pcb work flow. I see that through the
> menus I can set up the layers, drc clearances, etc. Is that how most
> folks setup pcb for each new project?

You can set the defaults through ~/.pcb/settings too, anything that's
a command line option (pcb --help)

> I would rather have a separate script that could be edited and
> executed once to set the tool up. Is that possible or even a good
> idea?

For any command line option you want "preset", put a line in ~/.pcb/settings,
for example, "pcb --min-silk 5mil" in ~/.pcb/settngs becomes:

min-silk = 5mil

Note: one of the command line options is --action-script <file>, which
tells pcb to run an action script at startup.  Almost anything you can
do with the GUI (certainly, anything you can do with menus alone) can
be scripted that way.

> How do other folks set up pcb for a new project?  

You could also create a "template" pcb and copy it to the new *.pcb
before editing it.  One to-do in pcb is to have it offer to preload
from a list of templates rather than create some arbitrary "blank"
pcb.