Re: gEDA-user: Confusion about symbol file and footprint file

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 12:37 -0700, John Doty wrote: > On Feb 1, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Steven Michalske wrote: > > > > > On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Luke wrote: > > > >> According to the gsch2pcb documentation, > >> it should read the ~/gafrc file. Where can I put a user specific > >> gafrc file so t

Re: gEDA-user: Confusion about symbol file and footprint file

2010-02-01 Thread John Doty
On Feb 1, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Steven Michalske wrote: On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Luke wrote: According to the gsch2pcb documentation, it should read the ~/gafrc file. Where can I put a user specific gafrc file so that it will run every time gschem is started, no matter where I am running

Re: gEDA-user: Confusion about symbol file and footprint file

2010-02-01 Thread Steven Michalske
On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Luke wrote: According to the gsch2pcb documentation, it should read the ~/gafrc file. Where can I put a user specific gafrc file so that it will run every time gschem is started, no matter where I am running gschem from, Shouldn't the file be ~/.gafrc that dot i

Re: gEDA-user: Confusion about symbol file and footprint file

2010-02-01 Thread Dave N6NZ
On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Luke wrote: > > My questions are: > 1) What is needed to associate a symbol to a footprint when you > drawing the schematic in gschem? Is it a filename? set footprint attribute to the name of the file foo.fp > If so, where does > that file need to be located? I

gEDA-user: Confusion about symbol file and footprint file

2010-02-01 Thread Luke
I created a symbol for a optical encoder component (AEDR-8300) using the tragesym tutorial: http://www.geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:tragesym_tutorial I was able to get that to work, and I also hacked my way through the creation of the corresponding footprint (following the newlib conventions) by follow