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On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Nicklas Karlsson
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>> > But gschem can do schematic capture for ASIC even though that’s not its target. The difference is that gschem doesn’t limit what you can draw. It’s quirky and limits *how* you can express what you need, but I’ve never found it incapable of expressing a circuit. It gives you a few crude primitives and a few ways to compose more complex objects from simple objects. A few layers of that, and you have a 6000 component mixed-signal ASIC.
>> >
>> > Pcb says to the user “my way or the highway”. Gschem says “live with my quirks, and I’ll help you do anything”.
>>
>> Not true, I've just gone through the entire format carefully and pcb
>> actually has very little per-part or per-feature overhead.  It's about
>> as close to a paint program as it can be.  It can do lots of stuff,
>> though admittedly often in quirky ways, just like gschem.  Your major
>> gripe seems to be that you can't "draw" 3D or inter-layer features,
>> because their implementation is bolted onto the fundamentally layer
>> oriented design in a hard-wired way.  It's a true complaint but not
>> very useful, because adding 3D CAD would require a total rewrite with
>> buckets of additional complexity.
>>
>> It's completely possible to go on adding features like blind vias
>> without a total rewrite.
>>
>> Britton
>
> Did you look at element/footprint file format also? Is it possible to have vias in a footprint? Put the drawing primitives in a footprint at copper or solder mask layer?

Not possible, and I don't think it would be the way to go.  I'd rather
see pcb get better hierarchy support and make this sort of thing the
responsibility of that system.  I do stuff sort of like this now, I
have reusable layouts for common subsystems, and scripts that manage
the names of parts inside them.

Britton