Re: gEDA-user: Problem with square pads without holes and rounded SMD in gerber

2010-01-10 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
2010/1/6 DJ Delorie : > As for the 0805's, I'd have to see the .pcb and gerber files to figure > out what's going on. Turns out that my memory failed me, and I installed gerbview from the kicad project. When I installed gerbv I got the square pads of 0805 as expected. I don't know if this is an i

Re: gEDA-user: Problem with square pads without holes and rounded SMD in gerber

2010-01-06 Thread DJ Delorie
Gerbers don't have holes in the copper where drilled holes go; the "holes" are stored separetely in the drill file. Load both the copper and drill files, stack them in the right order, and it should appear the same as pcb. As for the 0805's, I'd have to see the .pcb and gerber files to figure ou

gEDA-user: Problem with square pads without holes and rounded SMD in gerber

2010-01-06 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
Hi, Created a component and modified the pad property to square instead of rounded, and in the gerber file they show up square, but no indication of a hole. In pcb there is a hole in the pad. I used the description for newlib footprint creation from the pcb manual to create the symbol, and it look