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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds good.

> On 1 Feb 2018, at 09:31, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Le 31/01/2018 à 16:47, Jeff Young a écrit :
>> When we display the layers of a pad, we display the top-most and bottom-most layers, and then
>> include “Internal” if there are also any internal layers, and “Non-copper” if there are also any
>> non-copper layers.
>> 
>> Sounds good so far.  Unfortunately, the composed string can be confusing:
>> 
>> Pad 7 of U1 on F.Cu, B.Cu, Internal, Non-copper
>> 
>> “Internal” and “Non-copper”, because they’re not actual layer names, parse like they’re descriptors
>> of the whole pad: a blind, NPTH pad on front and back copper layers.  Say what?
>> 
>> Do we really need to know that there are non-copper layers included?  Presumably the masks always
>> are, so that does little to distinguish one pad from another.
>> 
>> What about:
>> 
>> Pad 7 of U1 on F.Cu - B.Cu
>> 
>> for those that include internal layers and:
>> 
>> Pad 7 of U1 on F.Cu, B.Cu
>> 
>> for those that don’t.
>> 
>> Or, if we really want everything:
>> 
>> Pad 7 of U1 on F.Cu - B.Cu and others
>> 
>> Thoughts?
> 
> Agreed for "Non-copper" that is ambiguous.
> 
> Pads on all copper layers could be:
> 
> Pad 7 of U1 on *.Cu, others
> 
> (this is a shorter sentence).
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> 
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