On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Stephan Boettcher <boettc...@physik.uni-kiel.de> wrote: > Kai-Martin Knaak <kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de> writes: > >> Stephan Boettcher wrote: >> >>> The way to promote gedasymbols and to fix the default library is to >>> remove the default library, except for a small set of very generic >>> symbols. >> >> ack. >> This set of symbols should provide the ability to start working as is >> and generally be examples for complete working symbols. That is, they >> should contain footprint attributes. And when applicable simulation >> attributes, too. HOWTOs and manuals may refer to these items. > > nack. There is no way for a footprint attribute to be generic. > > These symbols shall exactly not be examples, and exactly not just work. > > They shall be symbols that can be use as they are for any workflow, by > adding the required attributes after instantiation, or by editing a copy > in a project lib, i.e., the first easy steps in learning symbol editing. >
No, but what would be really cool is if gschem knew about PCB symbols so that when you open the properties window, footprint is a dropdown list of available PCB footprints. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user