Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Rick Collins wrote: However, if you use an auto router, how do you tell it to ignore the bottom pads? switch off the bottom layer while auto routing. I guess you can edit the footprint to remove the bottom pads, just leaving the top pads, In pcb thru hole pads are complex objects called

Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-26 Thread Bob Paddock
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de wrote: Hi. I just hit a legitimate use case for mirrored footprints: Memory chips frequently come in mirrored/not-mirrored versions, needing mirrored foot prints to make high density memory cards. --

Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-26 Thread Steven Michalske
On Nov 26, 2010, at 5:06 AM, Rick Collins gnuarm.2...@arius.com wrote: At 05:05 PM 11/25/2010, you wrote: On Nov 25, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Rick Collins gnuarm.2...@arius.com wrote: At 05:01 AM 11/25/2010, you wrote: I am missing the reason you must mirror the footprints, however.

Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-25 Thread Jan Martinek
I am missing the reason you must mirror the footprints, however. Aren't the pins still in the same orientation they would be with the standard footprint? Since your DIP packages are mounted in the normal-side-up orientation, it seems the pins should be in the right order, unless you have placed

Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-25 Thread Steven Michalske
On Nov 25, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Jan Martinek ho...@dp.fce.vutbr.cz wrote: I am missing the reason you must mirror the footprints, however. Aren't the pins still in the same orientation they would be with the standard footprint? Since your DIP packages are mounted in the normal-side-up

Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-25 Thread Rick Collins
At 05:01 AM 11/25/2010, you wrote: I am missing the reason you must mirror the footprints, however. Aren't the pins still in the same orientation they would be with the standard footprint? Since your DIP packages are mounted in the normal-side-up orientation, it seems the pins should be in the

Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-25 Thread Steven Michalske
On Nov 25, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Rick Collins gnuarm.2...@arius.com wrote: At 05:01 AM 11/25/2010, you wrote: I am missing the reason you must mirror the footprints, however. Aren't the pins still in the same orientation they would be with the standard footprint? Since your DIP packages are

Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-25 Thread kai-martin knaak
Steven Michalske wrote: As the parts are mounted top side towered the board. I do agree that they should be a externally mirrored footprint though. Still, my tool should not try to prevent me from doing stupid things or play dirty tricks. ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak

Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-25 Thread Rick Collins
At 05:05 PM 11/25/2010, you wrote: On Nov 25, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Rick Collins gnuarm.2...@arius.com wrote: At 05:01 AM 11/25/2010, you wrote: I am missing the reason you must mirror the footprints, however. Aren't the pins still in the same orientation they would be with the standard

Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-24 Thread Jan Martinek
On 11/23/2010 03:52 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Hi. I just hit a legitimate use case for mirrored footprints: A layout sketch for dead-bug-prototyping. That is, glue the component with its back to the board and do the wires manually. However, there seems to be no way to mirror a footprint.

Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-24 Thread Jan Martinek
On 11/24/2010 05:13 PM, Jan Martinek wrote: On 11/23/2010 03:52 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Hi. I just hit a legitimate use case for mirrored footprints: A layout sketch for dead-bug-prototyping. That is, glue the component with its back to the board and do the wires manually. However, there

Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-24 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Jan Martinek wrote: http://fyzika.fce.vutbr.cz/pub/bentlegs/ Ah! Toporouter in action! :-) ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover

Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-24 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:17:47 +0100 Jan Martinek ho...@dp.fce.vutbr.cz wrote: On 11/24/2010 05:13 PM, Jan Martinek wrote: On 11/23/2010 03:52 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Hi. I just hit a legitimate use case for mirrored footprints: A layout sketch for dead-bug-prototyping. That is, glue

Re: gEDA-user: mirrored footprint

2010-11-23 Thread Stephan Boettcher
Kai-Martin Knaak kn...@iqo.uni-hannover.de writes: Hi. I just hit a legitimate use case for mirrored footprints: A layout sketch for dead-bug-prototyping. That is, glue the component with its back to the board and do the wires manually. However, there seems to be no way to mirror a