A good survey question: What are the most common reasons that you need to change land patterns?
Steve Meier On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 22:38 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I could go a step further or two. Same number of pins? same number > > of pads. same pin and pad pin numbers? > > Each thing that must match is one more thing that you can't change and > still update the footprint. > > > A key point is that you have to have the old land pattern. > > I wouldn't rely on that. > > > I think we should presume that the two patterns have the same pin > > numbering scheme. > > I often fiddle with the thermal pads on footprints, replacing one big > pad with many smaller ones. > > Getting these rules right is most of the work in this type of project. > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user