Re: gEDA-user: Where to place pcb footprints?

2007-03-16 Thread Peter Baxendale
If you mean where pcb finds footprints, displayed in its "library" window, then you can set this in ~/.pcb/preferences. I have a line: "library-newlib = ./footprints:/home/des0prb/pcb/geda/footprints" in there. Personally I don't ever use the pcb library window though, because I always do pcbs fro

gEDA-user: Where to place pcb footprints?

2007-03-15 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Where is a good place to store pcb footprints? For previous projects I just copied them to the global footprint directories, but I suppose that's not really the right place. The pcb documentation tells me to place project-specific footprints in pkg/newlib. I'd prefer some place under my home direct