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A rat line represents a logical connection that is not yet realized in copper. -It connects two drawing primitives. +It requires a loaded netlist for generation, and relies on calculations for any +existing coppre layers that connect terminals on the pcb-rnd board. Rat +connections are straight line connections between the terminals of any two +drawing primitives that aren't yet connected
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Physical board | pcb-rnd | Description - |
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Layer | Layer Group | enables the user to design complex physical constructions - |
copper layer | layer group with copper layers | designed with one to many pcb-rnd layers - |
top/component copper layer | layer group with copper layers | any group of copper layers defined as the 'top' of a board - |
bottom/solder copper layer | layer group with copper layers | any group of copper layers defined as the 'bottom' of a board - |
substrate | layer group makred as substrate, hosting no logical layers | pcb-rnd does not yet handle properties of phyiscal substrate information - |
contour of the board | outline layer | designed using standard pcb-rnd elemnts - |
outline routing path | outline layer | designed using standard pcb-rnd elemnts - |
polygon pour | polygon | an object available for design in any layer group - |
plane | polygon | see above - |
mask | layer group with mask layers | design layers available: automatic, additive, subtractive - |
silk | layer group with silk layers | design layers available: automatic, additive, subtractive - |
N/A | Rats | assistve layer automatically generated with netlist and copper layer group connection data + |
Physical board | pcb-rnd | Description + |
Layer | Layer Group | enables the user to design complex physical constructions + |
Copper layer | Layer group with copper layers | designed with one to many pcb-rnd layers + |
Component/Top copper layer | Layer group with copper layers | any group of copper layers defined as the 'top' of a board + |
Solder/bottom copper layer | Layer group with copper layers | any group of copper layers defined as the 'bottom' of a board + |
Substrate | Layer group marked as substrate, hosting no logical layers | pcb-rnd does not yet handle properties of phyiscal substrate information + |
Contour of the board | Outline layer | designed using standard pcb-rnd elemnts + |
Outline routing path | Outline layer | designed using standard pcb-rnd elemnts + |
Polygon pour | Polygon | an object available for design in any layer group + |
Plane | Polygon | see above + |
Mask | A layer group adjacent to the outside copper layer group | design layers available: automatic, additive, subtractive + |
Silk | A layer group adjacent to the mask layer group | design layers available: automatic, additive, subtractive + |
N/A, or poss. net/circuit | Rats | assistive layer automatically generated with netlist and copper layer group connection data |