On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, DJ Delorie wrote: > Some quick comments: > > Your holes are 35 mil, the spec says 59 mil > > Inner ring is 0.28in diam, spec says 0.30in > > Outer ring is 0.824-0.848in diam, spec says 0.87in.
I expected errors of this sort. > Note: radial layouts like this really want to be done by a perl script > or other program, which can position the pins more precisely. Even if > you just have it dump the pins and you add everything else manually, > it's better than doing all those pins by hand. Last time I fiddled with a rotary switch, all the pins fell into place on a .1 grid. I perused that perl script you refer to and got confused. > Since the copper pads will be used for mechanical strength, make them > MUCH bigger than you have. Ah, right. > The default location for the refdes interferes with the other silk; > better to move it just below pins 6/7 > > Your pin A seems to have a thermal to layer 9 pre-defined. I'm not sure where that came from. > You should use the Attribute() syntax to include copyright and > authorship information in your element; regular comments will not be > preserved in a layout. Hmm... I just copied Cory Cross's header and swapped in my name. > Your arcs, for some reason, have origins at various off-by-one > coordinates. Note that the file format *does* allow full circles; > it's only the GUI that limits you to creating 90 degree arcs. Create > one arc in the GUI, and later edit the .fp file by hand to change the > angles to "0 360". I see. That off-by-one might have been caused by my making circles from arcs. So, should I start an arc from 0 to 90 degrees (upper right corner), then tune by hand? -- David Griffith [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user