On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 15:01 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 09:35 -0400, John Luciani wrote:
> > Does your XY data look correct for your 0805 parts? > > It seems to be correct in gerbv, although I have never figured out how > gerbv seems to guess the size of component box it previews the XY file > with. (Not read the source either though). > > Gerbv draws a box approximately the right size for the component, and it > is placed correctly with the pads. The only buglet (and I'm probably > just not using the lastest gerbv here), is that vertically oriented > resistors are still drawn with a horizontal box. Ok updated gerbv, and the boxes are now the right way around.. I also read the source code.. muchos black-magic happens parsing the XY file. If it encounters a footprint like "[0-9]4", "e.g." 0805, it interprets that as the box size on mils. I guess that will fall down for those components with similar footprint names, but defined in metric. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user