gEDA-user: how close to place components?

2009-07-26 Thread gene glick
Any recommendations for part-to-part spacing? Assuming someday that pick-and-place machines will do this stuff for me, what is a good spacing for 0603 resistors, caps etc. Same goes for 0805. gene ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: how close to place components?

2009-07-26 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 18:18 -0400, gene glick wrote: Any recommendations for part-to-part spacing? Assuming someday that pick-and-place machines will do this stuff for me, what is a good spacing for 0603 resistors, caps etc. Same goes for 0805. gene Good question. For my DSO board I

Re: gEDA-user: how close to place components?

2009-07-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:04:13 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: One problem: I have not much room for the refdes. Me too! :-) My boards tend to be as small as possible. see http://lilalaser.de/blog/?p=96 That's why I my footprints consistently put the text to the middle of the footprint. My

Re: gEDA-user: how close to place components?

2009-07-26 Thread Ben Jackson
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 02:04:13AM +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: Good question. For my DSO board I have placed the 0805 parts very close, silk outline nearly touch. For 0603 with hand assembly I place parts such that the silkscreen overlaps adjacent parts (if I need close spacing). -- Ben