On Thu, 19 May 2011 16:21:31 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak <kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de> wrote:
> Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: > > > KMK didn't say what he means by "unusable", > > Most immediately: The symbols in the default lib do not contain > footprint attributes. Not even an empty ones. This prevents them to > "just-work" for the most common work-flow of geda: gschem -> gnetlist > -> pcb -> gerbv If you put default footprint attributes on the symbols, it is an invitation to error. It's better to force the user to specify a footprint for each component. If it seems like extra work for a user to assign footprints, consider that the user had better be reviewing each and every component's footprint in the schematic anyway... though you know you'll forget to check one component for which the default package is wrong. Ideally, footprint assignment would be easy and convenient, however. This could be improved by providing a footprint browser in gschem to quickly locate the right symbol name. Regards, Colin _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user