Rob,
thanks for the tip, that would be a little easier then the selecting
all the components involved and then changing through a third footprint as I
did. No idea as to how this happens though?
Brad Velander,
Lead PCB Designer,
Norsat International Inc.,
#300 - 4401 Still Creek Dr.,
Burnaby, B.C., V5C 6G9.
Tel. (604) 292-9089 direct
Fax (604) 292-9010
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:00 AM
> To: Protel EDA Forum
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] Synchronizer: land pattern footprint fields change
> but the land p attern stays the same?
>
>
>
>
> There is a better way to fix this. To fix these components
> open the 0402
> library component then select update PCB. This will update all the
> components that list their footprint as 0402 to the correct
> land pattern.
>
> I thought there used to be an update all footprints from
> library menu item,
> but that may have been way back when there was only 1
> footprint library
> (PCB2 or 3). Now clicking UpdatePCB in the library editor
> just updates the
> one footrpint you are looking at which is good and bad. It
> is good because
> hitting updatePCB used to change everything to the patterns
> in that library
> and if you had different patterns named the same (a big
> no-no) they could
> change.
>
> Rob
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