Hi Sven, Have a look at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljh4timm/pcb-fpw.html and see if this is what you have in mind :) It's an ongoing work of me and is still pretty alpha (currently just released version 20080328-0.0.4). I'm thinking of opening a git repository somewhere, so other people can participate in the fun. The ultimate goal is get this attempt into a serious plug-in/importer for pcb (using dbus for IPC to and from pcb). One other thing: IMO this tool is not going to be a footprint editor for existing footprints, it's supposed to become a tool to generate a footprint on the fly and inserting the footprint into pcb the same way "Load element data to paste buffer" does. The CLI is there to batch process huge amounts of footprints. Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 13:56 +0100, Sven Lemke wrote: > Hello, > > my name is Sven Lemke and I am a student of aerospace engineering at the > Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. > > I would like to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2008 program > because it is just the perfect solution for me to spend my free time > learning/doing something useful for the open source community and not > having to do it all for free. This doesn't mean that I will leave this > development community as soon as my part is finished but I am thinking > of it as a long term further education besides my usual engineering studies. > > I was planning to contribute to an open source project for a loong time > and when the GSoC program came to my attention a few days ago I decided > to give it a try and contribute code to the PCB project. I am using it > regularly in my spare time for my own hardware developments and in my > opinion it should be given more attention because it's one of the best > free tools for this job and nice to work with. I had been using Eagle > CAD for years but found it to be too unflexible, slow and buggy. > > I will be working on the IPC-7351A SMT land pattern generator and the > IPC-356 netlist output export module. > > I do have some limited coding experience in PHP, C, Basic, Pascal and > assembly on x86 and several microcontrollers but not yet with managing > bigger projects like the gEDA suite of tools. It will take me some time > to get used to this kind of group tasks. > > Best regards, > Sven > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
