Re: gEDA-user: How's my footprint?

2007-06-01 Thread Steve Meier
Ben Jackson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:47:42PM -0700, Steve Meier wrote: > >> I don't see anything inherently wrong. But it is probably a little >> dated. Were you using my doc? >> > > Yes, I was using one updated by Stuart Brorson. > > Using sub mill capabilities is needed as

Re: gEDA-user: How's my footprint?

2007-06-01 Thread Ben Jackson
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:54:45PM -0700, Steve Meier wrote: > As a second thought, where do you want the center of your foot print to > be? I tend to make my cneters be the center of what ver is the first pad. I found that setting the mark values had no effect, I always had a mark at the origin.

Re: gEDA-user: How's my footprint?

2007-06-01 Thread Steve Meier
As a second thought, where do you want the center of your foot print to be? I tend to make my cneters be the center of what ver is the first pad. This is an issue that we need to address as board shops that have the ability to do point to point probing are asking for files that define the location

Re: gEDA-user: How's my footprint?

2007-06-01 Thread Ben Jackson
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:47:42PM -0700, Steve Meier wrote: > > I don't see anything inherently wrong. But it is probably a little > dated. Were you using my doc? Yes, I was using one updated by Stuart Brorson. > For today's capabilities I would suggest that instead of working in > units of mi

Re: gEDA-user: How's my footprint?

2007-06-01 Thread Steve Meier
Ben, I don't see anything inherently wrong. But it is probably a little dated. Were you using my doc? For today's capabilities I would suggest that instead of working in units of mills you work in units of 0.01 mills. I won't or don't have time to check it for correctness otherwise. But you see

gEDA-user: How's my footprint?

2007-06-01 Thread Ben Jackson
I created this for LT1764A and friends, it's a DD5. This is exactly their recommended footprint, plus an outline I made up. It's very tight to the part, more so than some I looked at on professionally made boards using the same package. I did test-fit the part on a 1:1 printout. I initially set