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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 02:38:22PM +0200, jp charras wrote:
> Margin layer is a global keep out which will accept zones and lines (but
> no text).
> The first use is to define keep out areas near board outline.
> the keep out can differ from board outline, mainly for edge board
> connectors.

Ah ok. The thing other EDA packages call the 'keep in' area.

> Yes.
> courtyard ( and partially fab layers ) is mainly for footprints.
> This is the main reason of the comment.

That 'mainly' is reassuring. Probably they aren't in the vertical box
simply because the UI is still work in progress then (I couldn't find
them in the module editor, either)

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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