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[Vesa Solonen <vesa.solonen@xxxxxxxx>]

08.01.2013 01:37, Cirilo Bernardo kirjoitti:

> I agree and would even go a few steps further.  In IPC7351 and ongoing discussions on land patterns there are also other layers which are mentioned such as the fiducials layer (I can't recall if the zero position / zero orientation marks go into the fiducial layer or their own special layer).  I think all the extra layers become more important for professional work and especially for the creation and verification of boards intended for automated assembly; people who do hand assembly can also benefit since they can use footprints with larger courtyards.  The implementation can get tricky; for example, a THT courtyard will extend to both sides of a board, many SMD courtyards only affect one side of a board but some SMD courtyards may affect both sides.  It may be necessary to see what the devs think of this so that we can at least reserve certain layers for a fixed purpose.
> 
> - Cirilo

Regarding devs I'd say _we_ have to work out the working system and
design the needed data structures to support the system. Then we can
suggest how about doing this like our plan, which includes what it does
and how it does.

I'm pretty certain that Dick set up the lib-committers list just to get
some noise off the devel as it was pretty loud at times. So lets specify
what we need and see how to make it happen.

Btw, your parametric work is awesome and that should put in to use for
footprints/land patterns as well.

-Vesa