Colin D Bennett wrote: > The orthogonality > of these three pieces (schematic, footprint mapping, and PCB layout) is > pleasing to me, but I have to admit that you would rarely find a need > to create different PCBs from the exact same schematic.
ack. Up to now, I _never_ had this situation in real projects. Some aspect of the schematic beyond footprints and packages always needs to be changed. On the other hand: Almost all projects need debugging and/or service. For this task, footprints printed on the schematic help to locate the part in the layout. > Still, by > separating the footprint mapping entirely from schematic capture, you > can stay focused on one task at a time. If this is your preferred way to work, you can already do it, even with heavy symbols: Just ignore the footprint attribute while placing symbols. Use gattrib, a text editor or a script to replace dummy values of the footprints in a separate step. The mere fact that the footprint information is contained in the schematic does not imply, you have to set it during schematic capture. ---<)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