Hi Igore2

POLL:

>1. How many of your boards REQUIRE burried = or blind vias? [percentage]

Somewhere around 50%

>2. How many of your boards could BENEFIT burried or blind vias? [p= ercentage]
Almost all new designs - So a= round 80%

>3. When your boa= rd REQUIRED them, do you more often find a workaround to stick with pcb ins= tead of switching to another design tool? [yes/no]
I use another tool (Altium)

>4. When your board could BENEFIT using them, do you more often= find a workaround to stick with pcb instead of switching to another design= tool

>This is typically an application centric questio= n (I usually know the answer because of the type of design and/or type of s= emiconductor packages that will be used...) and I don't start the desig= n in PCB if I think this is going to be the case.

>5. Have = you ever tried pcb-rnd? [yes/no]

No, But I am going to ver= y shortly

>6. Would you try pcb-rnd if it offered blind/bur= ried vias? [yes/no]

Yes

>7. Would you cons= ider switching to pcb-rnd if it offered blind/burried vias? [yes/no]=

>8. Approximately how= many boards have you done so far with pcb (pcb mainline/branches/forks inc= luded, using gschem/gnetlist not required)? "1

>board done" means you had one or more phy= sical copies of the board. [rough estimation, positive integer]

30 or so (I think...)

>9. Approximately how many boar= ds have you done with other packages? [rough estimation, positive integer]<= /span>

Hundreds - I can put a number to it.

>10. = What OS would you prefer to do your pcb layouts on (assuming your favorite = layout tool is/would be available on it)? [one of: (GNU/)Linux, *BSD,

>OSX, windows, other; if you = like more, select the one you would spend most time on!]

OS X is my number one desktop choice followed by Linux. If I need win= dows, I run it as a virtual machine in either of the=C2=A0previously mentio= ned OS's.

Best

Marvin

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:32 AM, <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu&g= t; wrote:

Hi all,

after some more code reading I found a way to add support for burried/blind= vias in pcb-rnd with reasonable effort, without first having to rewrite ev= erything and/or inventing new file formats. This could be the next big feat= ure in pcb-rnd.

My only problem is that I do not really feel the need for this feature and = I don't want to spend time developing features that wouldn't be use= d. I am not sure about other users, tho. If you are interested, please answ= er these questions with yes/no, unless specified otherwise (comments are al= so welcome after the yes/no). You can send your answer in private if you wa= nt to reduce list traffic. I will collect answers this week and will publis= h anonimized results.

Please focus on answering the questions - see disclaimer at the bottom; I w= ill ignore posts that attempt to derail the thread and encourage everyone e= lse to do the same.

Note: "you" means personally you, not your friends or subcontract= ors.

POLL:

1. How many of your boards REQUIRE burried or blind vias? [percentage]

2. How many of your boards could BENEFIT burried or blind vias? [percentage= ]

3. When your board REQUIRED them, do you more often find a workaround to st= ick with pcb instead of switching to another design tool? [yes/no]

4. When your board could BENEFIT using them, do you more often find a worka= round to stick with pcb instead of switching to another design tool? [yes/n= o]

5. Have you ever tried pcb-rnd? [yes/no]

6. Would you try pcb-rnd if it offered blind/burried vias? [yes/no]

7. Would you consider switching to pcb-rnd if it offered blind/burried vias= ? [yes/no]

8. Approximately how many boards have you done so far with pcb (pcb mainlin= e/branches/forks included, using gschem/gnetlist not required)? "1 boa= rd done" means you had one or more physical copies of the board. [roug= h estimation, positive integer]

9. Approximately how many boards have you done with other packages? [rough = estimation, positive integer]

10. What OS would you prefer to do your pcb layouts on (assuming your favor= ite layout tool is/would be available on it)? [one of: (GNU/)Linux, *BSD, O= SX, windows, other; if you like more, select the one you would spend most t= ime on!]

ANTI-NOISE DISCLAIMER: this mail has nothing to do with:
- gschem/libgeda/gnetlist;
- pcb file format preferences;
- programming languages;
- VCS, development workflow preferences;
- integration vs. toolkit;
- "how broken pcb is";
- "how perfect geda/gaf is".
If you think you've found a part that does have a connection to any of = these topics, please DO NOT reply to that part or make a new thread with a = new subject and move the specific part there.

TIA,

Igor2

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