Thank you Stephen.
When you say 'others rely on them'..Why do they rely on them? I get
the feeling that there is some feature or property that some ppl find
important enough to use them (over the other libraries).
My first attempt at creating symbols is with DJboxsym. It was
Stephen Ecob wrote:
In that case download them and start
modifying and adding to them as needed.
Note, that the collection at gedasymbols can be downloaded wholesale
with anonymous cvs. No need to pick single items at a time.
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Kai-Martin Knaak
Email: k...@familieknaak.de
Hi John,
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:07 PM, John Hudak jjhu...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you Stephen.
When you say 'others rely on them'..Why do they rely on them? I get
the feeling that there is some feature or property that some ppl find
important enough to use them (over the other
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 13:14 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:02:07 +0200
I can't see any reason NOT to use the skip-m4 option. Every footprint
in the default pcb library is available as a newlib-format footprint,
right?
Actually (and sadly), no.. there are some naming
I've created two directories in my home directory to store symbol files
that I create, and another directory to store footprints I create:
/home/jjh/project/component_symbols
/home/jjh/project/component_footprints
How do I modify gschem to look in my home directory for symbols AS
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:23:15 -0400
John Hudak jjhu...@gmail.com wrote:
I've created two directories in my home directory to store symbol
files that I create, and another directory to store footprints I
create: /home/jjh/project/component_symbols
/home/jjh/project/component_footprints
How
John Hudak wrote:
I've created two directories in my home directory to store symbol files that
I create, and another directory to store footprints I create:
/home/jjh/project/component_symbols
/home/jjh/project/component_footprints
How do I modify gschem to look in my home directory for
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:02:07 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
/-- YOUR-PROJECT.g2p ---
schematics YOUR-PROJECT.sch
output-name YOUR-PROJECT
elements-dir
FULL-PATH-TO-THE-DIR-BELOW-THE_DIRS-THAT-CONTAIN-YOUR-FOOTPRINTS
Colin D Bennett wrote:
No big deal, just copy the symbols from the component
library into your new design project's Symbols directory as you need
them. This small effort is, for me, completely worth it for the
robustness provided by avoiding dependency on external symbol
libraries. It
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:24:24 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote:
Colin D Bennett wrote:
No big deal, just copy the symbols from the component
library into your new design project's Symbols directory as you need
them. This small effort is, for me, completely worth it for
I always add the options skip-m4 and use-files because I don't
want any of the M4 generated footprints, ever. But this may be due
to personal prejudice.
This brings up another issue I am havingAs a neophyte to this tool
set (but not to EDA tools in general), what is the deal
Hi John,
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:24 AM, John Hudak jjhu...@gmail.com wrote:
I always add the options skip-m4 and use-files because I don't
want any of the M4 generated footprints, ever. But this may be due
to personal prejudice.
This brings up another issue I am havingAs a
This brings up another issue I am havingAs a neophyte to this tool set
(but not to EDA tools in general), what is the deal with m4 files?
They're dynamically generated (M4 is a parser). So, you create one M4
template for a, say, DIP part, and then you can ask for any DIPN
footprint and it
So, let me paraphrase what I think you said:
I create (or use) one m4 template (either symbol or footprint), that is
'generic' and when I want to instantiate that template in gschem I can
add/specify additional properties, i.e. #pins, signal direction, etc.
??
Sort of like the
I create (or use) one m4 template (either symbol or footprint), that is
Just footprints.
I still don't get it...so for a neophite to this tool, should I use them or
not?
Probably not. Easier to just create the specific footprints you want,
either manually or via a script, and save them in
Hi John,
I think you'll find it easiest if you ignore M4 at the start - you
don't need it.
One great resource is gedasymbols:
http://www.gedasymbols.org/
There are are lots of symbols and footprints there that have been
contributed by the community. You can search for them by name or
browse
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