Rick Collins wrote: >>If for whatever reason the designer used 2 different footprints for >>the same part occuring >>several times on a board, if the footprints are position/rotation >>inconsisten... > > I have no idea why anyone would do that.
Real world example: PhD student Foo designs some super noiseless detector circuit. The measurements turn out a success. Researcher Bar, a long time friend who works on some unrelated project, asks Foo for help to get him started on noiseless detector. PhD Foo gladly provides the schematic and layout. For his project Bar needs to add some minor features to the hardware. Of course, she uses a different local library than Foo ... > Sure the designer can totally screw up a design. I wouldn't call this totally screwed. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
