On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 10:14, ptay wrote: > Vaughn Treude wrote: > > > pads into something the program would understand. It sure would be cool > > if you could create pads using the rectangle tool. >
Thanks for the suggestion. I actually did do a couple of them by the text method, but it was time-consuming for me - I make mistakes pretty easily in that mode. I have been editing the text files after I use the GUI to create them, because I don't know how to make the GUI number the pins correctly. :-) Vaughn > There is the sheet explaining the footprints I read to learn the > footprints ... you learn it and writing footprints by hand is pretty > easy until you get up to parts with dozens of pins. > > You want to read the section called "pad" in the document > "land_patterns" found on this page: > > http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/ > > You write the footprints in text and achieve an incredible level of > control and precision. After doing a few footprints the process becomes > second nature (or close). Save the text files as name_of_footprint.fp > in your personal footprints directory. > > best, phil > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user