I'd love to see an IPC-7351 footprint generator.  I purchased the 
document thinking I'd put together something, but that was a few years 
ago and I think the reality is I'm just not going to get to it.

-Dan

Sven Lemke wrote:
> Hey Bert,
> 
> I am sorry, but I was not aware that you already started a project for a
> footprint "generator". ;) I think your tool is a very good start and I
> agree with you that an "editor" is not needed at the moment.
> 
> Do you have access to a copy of the IPC-7351 specifications? Otherwise I
> am willing to spend the $100 on it if I'm accepted for GSoC.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Sven
> 
> 
> Bert Timmerman wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
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