On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 15:28 +0100, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: > Thanks Stefan its starting to become clearer now, I'd found the > shortened version, and the PCB handbook which I've printed out. > Being a RF engineer my brain has got used to working with Cartesian > co-ordinates hence the confusion. Its still a bit confusing as the > Handbook uses positive co-ordinates and examples in the Brorson docs, > and footprints on your site use negative co-ords. >
Other people do Sudoku or crosswords pussle -- we have this for free. Seriously: Most pcb footprints have 0,0 at center. Arcs are more difficult, I can never remember where 0 degree is and how sweep counts. > As for the dimensions for the capacitors, I took the lead diameter and > pitch from the data sheets I took the physical dimensions off the > component, so that would account for any small differences. > Many thanks for the help > OK, I think we should use all dimensions from datasheet, I will do this this evening and post the footprint. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user