On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:25:25 -0700 blueeag...@gmail.com wrote: > I was going through the gEDA tutorial and though it lists footprints for the > tutorial, it does not say how I would determine what footprints to use for > other components. For instance I have a schematic with a couple LEDs on it > and a radial style electrolytic capacitor. The schematic is drawn, but I > don't know what footprints to add. Seems like it should automatically add > them, but I would like to know where to go to find out this information.
What I've found myself doing for this is to run PCB and flip through its footprint library until I find the particular footprint I want, since there are sometimes more than one that will fit a given symbol in gschem. Once I find what I want, I mouse back over to Gschem and manually set it for the symbol that needs it. (Right click on the symbol in the schematic that needs that footprint, "Add Attribute", pick "footprint" from the drop down, and below that I just fill in the name of the part as seen in PCB's library.) When you get to the layout step (either by gsch2pcb or with PCB's schematic import feature), take a close look at one each of the various parts your schematic uses, to see if the part is connected properly, as a few components here and there have pin numbering that differs between PCB and Gschem. -- "There are some things in life worth obsessing over. Most things aren't, and when you learn that, life improves." http://starbase.globalpc.net/~ezekowitz Vanessa Ezekowitz <vanessaezekow...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
