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Subject: Re: [geda-user] how to use "clearance" and mask in pcb footprint
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Karl Hammar wrote:
> That is very doable, but if you have a PCB-preprocessor, pcb's error 
> messages don't any longer relate to your input file, it relates to the 
> in-between-file, and then you must know both the input file format, 
> pcb's file format and how the preprocessor operates.

If the new bluesky (thanks for the term DJ) tool is any good, PCB
might learn to read such footprints natively.

Meanwhile I think noone would bother using it if all it generates is
error messages. :)


//Peter