Steven Michalske wrote: > I Agree with John here I extensively use the shipped footprints, but i > review them like a hawk. printing out your board 1 to 1 is a must.... > place the component on the paper, does it line up right? > > Where I work, we have 2 levels of boards, proto and mass production. > the mass production boards have their footprints gone through with a > ultra fine tooth comb, proto boards not so much. our library is 100% > our own. We don't even use Cadences SO-8 footprint!
Well unless they've done some serious fixing of their footprints I don't blame you! The one board I've done using concept and allegro was clearly not manufacturable becuase of the bad footprints. Luckily I only needed a small number of hand built ones. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user