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On Oct 30, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:

> Seriously, the absence of blind and buried vias is about the only
> hard limitation I have hit during my time with pcb.

I think this is related to the trouble I have understanding pcb. I expect a program like this to allow me to tell it "put a hole in this and that; put copper hither and yon". It shouldn't be necessary to implement "buried vias" in pcb: the user should be able to describe a buried via (or any other composite structure). Instead, pcb implements nothing but composites, and limits you to its built in set, whose members have properties difficult to understand.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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