I have a few questions about how I would go about using gschem/pcb for some off-board parts (switches, connectors, indicators, etc.). Since they will be connected by wires and won't be on the board the standard fixed footprints are not really ideal. In gschem I am setting the footprint of the parts in question to generic "CONNECTOR x y".
1. Is it possible to break the footprint apart to move the pads to separate areas of the board but still keep the component/netlist valid? I tried various combinations of copy/cut to the buffer and breaking into elements, but the resulting part that gets pasted has no connections/reference to the original. 2. Some connections are point-to-point by wire and should not appear on the PCB. Can nets be marked in gschem to be omitted from the PCB? 3. Along with #2, if the connection is not on the board then the pad doesn't need to be either. How does one use a footprint with fewer pads than pins in the symbol? Thanks _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user