Hi Mike,
On 9/15/17, mike.valk@gmail.com mike.valk@gmail.com wrote:
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/hackaday-prize-entry-retrofit-a-nokia/ https://hackaday.io/project/21263-nokia-3210-retro-fit-board
Quote from the project log: "With the patched I submitted you can turn KiCad into a 'I know what I am doing' mode. Which meas you can place any type of via anywhere. You should not do it though. Vias are pretty well constraint by the manufacturer of the board. Since KiCad does not know of any layer thickness, production technologies and such it restricts to what is a sensible lowest common denominator."
Hmm so KiCad does not have a "PCB manufacturer constraints" input? How handy... NOT
Of course it has. But you need to realize that even Gerber doesn't have advanced information you need for more complex designs (i.e PCB dozens of layers with different type of impedance, etc). For that you need an EDA with IPC-2581 support that even Eagle (AFAIK) doesn't have and many other commercial EDAs also don't.
BR,
Alan