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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 04:21:59AM -0600, Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:
> 5000 module descriptions to extract the 5000 pieces of placement
> data is the horror of kicad's internal representation.

There is a reason for components being copied and not instantiated.

Often you need to 'tweak' a component, slimming or fattening a pad, or
removing unusing fixture holes.

So your 5000 capacitors are not necessarily all the same!

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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