On Aug 24, 2011, at 5:21 AM, Ethan Swint wrote:

> On 08/23/2011 08:47 PM, Matthew Lewis wrote:
>> I was double checking a pcb layout today and I discovered a rather nasty 
>> gotcha. It seems that gschem and PCB don't agree on which end of a diode 
>> should be pin 1. Gschem views pin 1 as the anode and PCB considers pin 1 to 
>> be the cathode. It doesn't prevent you from laying out a board correctly, 
>> but it does cause the silkscreen polarity to be printed backwards (for the 
>> SOD devices at least).
> I've defined my own symbols and footprints to use 'A' and 'K' instead of 1 
> and 2.
> 
> 
This is what we do at my work as well.

Steve



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