I was trying to make footprints for the screw terminals I am using in my current project. They are on 5 mm spacing, not inches, so I was hesitant to start with a different footprint and try to change it for fear of getting the units mixed up and creating a mess. So I switched PCB to mm with 0.5mm grid spacing. I had no trouble laying out a silkscreen outline, and little trouble adding vias for the three through holes. But then I could not figure out how to change the vias to pins to assign them numbers and or names. And I am still confused on how to make sure that the pins in a footprint I make will match up with the correct nets from the schematic symbol pins. I looked through every drop down menu several times, and checked the key mapping info. I am sure that there is a tutorial somewhere that helps with this, but the only ones I have read seem to skip over the pin creation and naming, and verifying that they associate with the correct pins on the symbol. Could someone explain to me how to create a footprint in PCB with pins and assign names/numbers to them? And what information is needed to get gscht2pcb to correctly assign nets to pads? Is there any way to test a symbol -> gsch2pcb -> footprint translation without making a whole schematic? And is there a better tutorial on making footprints with PCB for gschem symbols that I should have been reading instead (and if so, where can I find it)? I managed to gerrymander a 2 row header perl script in inches into making the mm spaced single row of holes for the screw terminals using Luciani's perl scripts, but I was doubtful until they finally worked. Mike
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