Hi DJ, I've struggled through my first board and assembled my first example based on the 3 for 33$ special that you mentioned. The learning curve was a bit steep but it worked out really well.
It was a bit off the main stream in that I am into high voltage pulses with a fair bit of current and odd (non-M4) shaped components heat sinks, transformers heavy traces and good spacing etc. The document that I found to be really useful was "land_patterns-20050129.pdf" from http://www.brorson.com and I can only get at it through http://www.luciani.org/geda/pcb/pcb-footprint-list.html#Connector for some strange reason. >From the date it looks to be three years out of date and possibly there have been many improvements since then. Possibly a comment line and other stuff would be handy. In any case it was a great improvement after all the frustrations with OrCAD footprints in that I had control over the pin hole size without the stupid thing reverting to too small. The comment that I might make would be to divide the documentation into developer stuff (file formats) and user stuff (footprint symbol generation and low level placement routing) for people who need a quick start cook book. I'm sure that all docs are there only I seem to go in circles finding what I need to give a tweak and waste time reading stuff I do not fully understand. Possibly you could consider links to this sort of article for your last chapter? Regards Ian. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user