> ... I placed the footprint's "mark" on the center line of the > connector's axis, in the plane of that external panel. ...
Can you do this independently from the positioning of pins on a grid? In case you have a .1" grid and you want pins to coincide with grid points - a good policy for making a clean layout - this might (potentially - depending on the outlines that determine the "center") result in placing your component in a way that the pin(s) do not fall onto a grid point. So far, I have preferred to place the "mark" on the center of a pin (normally pin #1) to avoid that problem. Is that an imaginary problem? A piggy-backed question: I have found two references to the notion of a "mark": - one are the coordinates specified by the "mark" command - the other one are the two mark items in the title line of the footprint - how do they relate to each other? Simply trying, I came to the conclusion that the coordinates specified in the "mark" command are the ones that count. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user