Colin D Bennett wrote: > Could you elaborate on this footprint generation work-flow?
I am tempted to write a footprint generation howto... > Are you saying that you draw the footprint pads with lines on > top/bottom copper layer, pins with vias, and silk with lines, (*) > then you > save a “.pcb” layout file for your footprint rather than exporting to a > “.fp” element file? close. At (*) I do "convert_to_footprint", add a name, move the name to a nice location, add square-flags and adjust mask clearance. Then a script enforces some defaults on all the footprints in the script: * make the name, the value and the description all the same string * set pin number and pin name to the same string * set pad number and pad name to the same string Finally, a script extracts all footprints contained in the pcb to individual files. > I could see this being more convenient for future editing, One of the benefits is to provide a visual catalog of a class. Say, all SOTxxx footprints. ---<)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