No, I know the difference between newlib footprints and m4. I worded my question badly. I've gone through the gschem2pcb tutorial but my question is if I'm creating a schematic in gschem and for each component you should have .fp file located in a folder for each footprint in my design why does PCB have a library of footprints? Do I really need a .fp file for each footprint or only the custom footprints that aren't in PCB's library that I make up?
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:47 PM, DJ Delorie <[1...@delorie.com> wrote: There are two types of footprins in the library - "m4 style" generated footprints, and "newlib style" file footprints. The "m4" style gives you, for example, all the different size 0.1" pitch headers with one macro definition, so you don't see one file per footprint for those. The "newlib" style uses separate files for each footprint, and should have a .fp extension (which you may omit when specifying your footprint). Custom footprints tend to be *.fp. When you install pcb, it should install a web page "catalog" of the symbols... somewhere, I hope :-) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [2]geda-u...@moria.seul.org [3]http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user References 1. mailto:d...@delorie.com 2. mailto:geda-user@moria.seul.org 3. http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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